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[…] Powers is unwilling or unable to face the brute reality of America. * Without Smoking Gun Was the death of Lt. Cmdr Will Pitzer part of the JFK assassination cover-up conspiracy?’ Ken Heiner Walterville (Oregon): Trine Day, 2005, $14.95 (US) (www.trineday.com) T he Kennedy assassination literature is littered with sexylooking fragments. This book is […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] Russian operations, my guess would be that the US will produce similar devices and begin attacking Russian officials overseas. Both sides might then stop using them. More JFK nonsense History Extra is a BBC website. In early February it put up Danny Bird’s ‘Who was behind JFK’s assassination? The real history that challenges the […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] about Platoon – Stone’s Vietnam War movie, based on his experiences there as an infantry private. Then they moved to the Kennedy assassination, the subject of Stone’s JFK. Rogan is a hunter and knows about rifles. Like other shooters who have looked at the case, Rogan focused on CE399, the so-called ‘magic bullet’. Rogan […]

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[…] Mess that Nuland Made’22, which is as good an introduction to the Ukraine events as any. Dallas again Marc Caputo’s ‘CIA admits shadowy officer monitored Oswald before JFK assassination, new records reveal’23 discusses the recent release of documents showing that CIA officer George Joannides was involved with and funded a Cuban student group, the […]

Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ on Dealey Plaza

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] field of subjects and I recently wandered into one: the three ‘tramps’ photographed being taken into custody on Dealey Plaza after the shooting. This is a classic JFK assassination quagmire:1 disputed photographic IDs; testimony from unreliable or selfinterested sources; third-hand reports about second-hand reports, and a great backlog of attempts by other people to […]

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[…] that Nuland Made’3, which is as good an introduction to the Ukraine events as any. *new* Dallas again Marc Caputo’s ‘CIA admits shadowy officer monitored Oswald before JFK assassination, new records reveal’4 discusses the recent release of documents showing that CIA officer George Joannides was involved with and funded a Cuban student group, the […]

America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity by Campbell Caig and Frederick Logevall

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] round the subject: ‘The almost-certain assassin, a troubled former marine named Lee Harvey Oswald . . .’ (p. 227). Similarly they are carefully sceptical and non-committal about JFK and Vietnam: ‘. . . over time became increasingly sceptical about South 1 ‘. . . . against all odds, the worse scenario occurred: the U-2 […]

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[…] stoop, and big class ring, he looked very distinctive to me.25 24 Gregory C. Lavin, Chasing Ed: Was Major General Edward G. Lansdale the Mastermind of the JFK Assassination?, p. 176 in the Kindle version. 25 8 Four people identifying him means we have to accept that Lansdale was there, even though we can’t […]

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[…] March 24 edition, ‘Nightmare On 20 NB Neither of the apps I use to shorten URLs would work with this one of Murray’s. 21 7 Elm Street: JFK and the Assassination That Still Haunts America’,22 Stone recounts a conversation he had with Richard Nixon, about the JFK assassination, after Nixon’s resignation. Nixon reportedly said: […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] burglar), William Colby, Richard Helms, William Donovan, Allen Dulles (later the intelligence community’s ‘minder’ on the Warren Commission, who had earlier been sacked from the CIA by JFK) and many others, including Dr Harold Abramson and the Dr Strangelove of the whole shebang, Dr Sidney Gottlieb. Like his associates, Gottlieb saw his work – […]

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