View from the Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] 1 Dallas again This is one of the famous ‘three tramps’ photographs taken in Dallas on 22 November 1963, a couple of hours after the shooting of JFK. I reproduce it 4 See . See, for example, or . 5 2 there is one other sentence worth noting. During a visit to the Vatican […]

South of the border (occasional snippets from)

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must Meet the new ‘C’ – same as the old ‘C’ Much fanfare – huge media excitement, it seemed – at the appointment of a woman as the new Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (the ‘C’ of SIS, for the acronym enthusiasts). The whole point of […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] companies15 and thus is highly unlikely to save the NHS from the private healthcare sector. Dallas again – Joesten I was looking through posts on John Simkin’s JFK Assassination Debate16 and noticed some discussion of Joachim Joesten and decided that since I think LBJdunnit (or was one of those who done it), I’d better […]

Mac Wallace and the finger of guilt

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] in question, he has been comprehensively taken for a ride along a false trail laid half a century ago. As definitively established by the formidable and meticulous JFK researcher Richard Bartholomew in his privately circulated 1998 monograph ‘Conflicts in Official Accounts of the Cardboard Carton Prints’3 ), the FBI did indeed match some of […]

view from bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] companies15 and thus is highly unlikely to save the NHS from the private healthcare sector. Dallas again – Joesten I was looking through posts on John Simkin’s JFK Assassination Debate16 and noticed some discussion of Joachim Joesten and decided that since I think LBJdunnit (or was one of those who done it), I’d better […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] just an encumbrance. It’s the American model, of course; it’s what Tony Blair yearned for. Very striking. Tugwell and InfPol W ay back when…..there was a Canadian JFK researcher called Scott Van Wynsberghe who wrote a couple of pieces for Lobster. In number 27 I noted that Van Wynesberghe had graduated from writing for […]

Conspiracy theories in the time of Covid-19, by Clare Birchall and Peter Knight

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] other academics in the field) that ‘conspiracy theory’ is an uncomplicated concept and anything so labelled can be assumed to be nonsense, is irrational and insulting (to JFK buffs in particular). However, with the spectacular crop of really dumb conspiracy theories which have emerged in recent years in the English-speaking world – QAnon etc. […]

The Plots Against the President, by Sally Denton

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] course deployed in Nicholas Katzenbach’s infamous memo of 23 November 1963. It was deployed more forcefully by Lyndon Johnson when he pressurised Earl Warren into whitewashing the JFK case. It seems likely that this ‘Don’t Scare the Horses’ alibi had been tried and tested long before 1933. 9 Unsurprisingly, Zangara is depicted as nothing […]

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