[PDF file]: […] (New York: W. W. Norton, 2013). ‘Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics’, and ‘Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate’. Both are in Lobster 73 (Summer 2017). 88 27 isn’t what we learned about American government and democracy in high school civics. But […]
[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 […]
[…] account of JFK’s foreign policy thinking and – once again – shows in detail that, far from being just another cold warrior, as he is conventionally presented, JFK really was trying to take US foreign policy in a new direction. Far from perpetual war, Kennedy refused to go to war in Cuba—even when he […]
[PDF file]: […] years ago in a lecture,1 and it was clear when this book was announced that it was going to try and debunk the LBJ-dunnit thesis in the JFK assassination. In Mellen’s view, that thesis has just two planks: the fingerprint of Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace apparently found on the 6th floor of the Texas School […]
[PDF file]: […] 1966 Jack Colhoun London and New York: OR books, 2013, £17.00 (UK), p/b As academic historians are wont to say: this is not my field. Like other JFK assassination buffs, I have acquired most of what little I know about this subject while reading about the assassination. The big surprise about this book was: […]
[PDF file]: […] same network had been killing people in Texas since 1951 (when Wallace received a five year suspended sentence for a first degree murder). In Estes’ version the JFK killing is merely one element in the wider scandal, the core of which were his secret payments to politicians, notably vice president Johnson. This is a […]
[…] systems and then, using those programmes, to refuse access to sites on that list. Holt again 31 My attempt to kindle interest in Chauncey Holt among the JFK buffs has thus far produced no results. I have yet to see an explanation of why the buffs – and ‘buffs’ isn’t derogatory in my book; […]
[…] was an arms race, the perception of which in the West was manipulated by US intelligence to exaggerate Soviet capacities, which eventually bankrupted both the major players. JFK understood this; and he and Kruschev were trying to wind it down. It would be satisfying to say that JFK was killed to prevent him doing […]
[PDF file]: […] $17.00 (amazon) Alan Jules Weberman or, more familiarly, A J Weberman, is widely known as a garbologist, Dylanologist, and as the author of a book on the JFK assassination.1 The main title page has a photograph captioned in caps THE AUTHOR SUMMER 1963 HITCHING TO THE YUCATAN. Just why this photo is positioned so […]
[…] hardly surprising. Doing anything but accepting the official 9/11 line would be bad for an academic career – in the same way that being interested in the JFK assassination would be. Being labelled a ‘conspiracy theorist’ is still a potential career-killer. As a preamble to discussing 9/11 as a false flag attack, Hughes discusses […]
