Has a DNA test solved the Rudolf Hess doppelgänger mystery?

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] legal, ethical or privacy concerns either for the Hess family or prisoner Spandau #7.’14 Since 1979 the Hess Doppelgänger question has ranked somewhere between the assassination of JFK and the Zinoviev Letter in the catalogue of unsolved conspiracies. Consequently it took less than three days in the online world of revisionist history for Joseph […]

The Conspiracy and Democracy Project

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] lumping together secret state research 7 See 8 See . John Naughton, one of the three directors of the project, tweeted: ‘The minute you get into the JFK stuff and the minute you sniff at the 9/11 stuff you begin to lose the will to live’. See . Yes, both subjects are full of […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] at university. What he does not mention in that chapter is that between SDS and becoming a professional journalist he had been interested in the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK. On p. 207 he writes of ‘my first book, The Permanent Campaign, published in 1980’ – omitting his 1976 book on those assassinations, […]

We Were Lied to About 9/11: The Interviews by Jon Gold

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Ahmed was one of the first academics to question the Bush administration’s version of 9/11 events and Peter Dale Scott draws interesting parallels between them and the JFK assassination. Ray McGovern is a retired senior CIA analyst who prepared Presidential Daily Briefs on intelligence. He was recently arrested for protesting against the appointment of […]

Adequately Explained by Stupidity? Lockerbie, Luggage and Lies by Morag G. Kerr

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] cargo hold. I found much of this boring and some difficult to follow: it needs studying, note-taking. This made me feel the way I did as a JFK assassination beginner encountering the more arcane end of the research, such as the autopsy evidence. I skipped bits of it (Kerr provides handy summaries at the […]

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

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[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

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[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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] with the politicians before it decided to go and shoot some of the bog-wogs?13 Peter Dale Scott It was reading Peter Dale Scott’s early writing on the JFK events which steered me in the direction I have taken ever since. So it was with some pleasure that I found that there is a short […]

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[…] the excellent Jim DiEugenio has one about the LBJ-dunnit theory of the Kennedy assassination. In a recent comment on Phillip F. Nelson’s LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination and LBJ – From Mastermind to “The Colossus” he wrote: The 2 key pieces of evidence Nelson uses to incriminate Johnson are wrong. As Groden […]

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