[…] 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, […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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. […]
[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 […]
A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.
[PDF file]: […] Scot Robin Ramsay, publishes conspiracy theory magazine Lobster from his front room in Hull. Reading it may just change your view of the world … HO whacked JFK? What happened to Dodi and Di in Paris? Did Blair and Campbell tell us all porkies about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, and how many American […]
A review of Lobster in Green Anarchist, issue 63, Summer 2001
[PDF file]: […] and dirty tricks. Eighteen years of survival and thrival in this highly contentious area is no mean achievement. From the start we have historical articles about the JFK assassination, 1970’s Wilsoniana, plots and rumours about early 1970’s private right wing armies like ‘Unison’, ‘Civil Assistance’, ‘GB75′ – whether real, psy-ops or authoritarian old soldiers’ […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] the Katyn Forest, or the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg. For the FBI and CIA it would be like records of conspiracies leading up to the assassination of JFK. John Costello, backed by a New York budget, was first into the KGB archives, working with former KGB colonel Oleg Tsarev to deliver in 1991 Ten […]
A review of Lobster in Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000
[PDF file]: […] and conspiracy theories within the corridors ofpower. Previous editions have dealt with such issues as American and Tory intervention in British unions, New Labour and the spooks, JFK, and plots by MI5/6/CIA. That’s not to say that Lobster is pandering to the audience forever more bizarre conspiracy theories. There are no stories like “aliens […]
