[…] a curious CIA document, a telegram that had been sent from the Agency office in London to headquarters in Langley on 23 November 1963, the day after JFK was assassinated. The telegram reads as follows (blacked-out(1) matter shown by brackets, with suppositions in italic): EXPRESSIONS OF SORROW AND SYMPATHY RECEIVED FROM TOP COMMAND AS […]
[…] New York: Skyhorse, 2008, h/b, $24.95 Russell wrote The Man Who Knew Too Much, about the late Richard Nagell. A couple of weeks before the assassination of JFK, Nagell walked into a bank, fired two shots into the ceiling and waited for the police to come and arrest him. Years later he claimed he […]
[…] does not extend to the assassinations in the 1960s. Vidal devotes many pages to Timothy McVeigh but only a few lines to the assassination of his friend JFK (and none at all to RFK). Reviewing Seymour Hersh’s The Dark Side of Camelot, he comments on p. 125: ‘Hersh does not take his book where […]
Larry Hancock Texas: JFK Lancer Productions and Publications, 2006; $35.00, h/back, ISBN 0-9774657-1-3, Faced with the vast pile of data which now constitutes the JFK assassination literature, an author – a serious author, at any rate; and Hancock is serious – has to chose a path s/he is going to follow through it, […]
[…] to which Lobster belongs and whose leaflets Lobster has been distributing. A couple of days after 9-11, Tony Frewin rang me and suggested that this was the JFK case for the Internet generation. There are some obvious similarities; but there are obvious differences, too. For one thing, if this was a fraud, it is […]
[…] or Fidel Castro in JFK’s assassination.’ One hopes that Bugliosi is doing all this on a pro bono publico basis and eschewing what he terms the ‘lucrative JFK conspiracy industry’ (see below). Who he? ‘I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged Posner in their books that they’re going to have […]
David W. Wrone University Press of Kansas; 2003, h/b, $29.99 (UK prices vary) In the conclusion to his Pocket Essentials Who Shot JFK?, the editor of this journal asked: ‘Where are the historians?’ David Wrone is a former Professor of History at Kansas University, and so his book provides at least part of […]
[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay The identity of the three ‘tramps’, photographed under police escort in Dallas after the assassination of JFK, is one of the many puzzles in the case. Over the years people have put forward various candidates. For example, the ‘old tramp’ looks rather like the CIA officer Howard Hunt. But only one person […]
[PDF file]: ‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland 1963 Simon Matthews John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected President of the United States of America on 8 November 1960. In terms of the total votes cast, his win was a narrow one and he obtained only 118,000 more votes than Richard Nixon. This was a margin […]
[PDF file]: The JFK Assassination Diary My search for answers to the mystery of the century Edward Jay Epstein New York: EJE Publications, 2014 T his is Edward Jay Epstein’s fourth book about the Kennedy assassination. He wrote his first, Inquest, while a graduate student. By a combination of luck and smarts he got access to […]
