[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Keysers. Edward DuCann, Two Lives (Upton on Severn: Images Publishing, 1995) p. 131. 28 This began during JFK’s term in office. It is not widely understood that JFK was more or less a Rooseveltian Democrat who sought – rather like Harold Wilson – to rebuild the US manufacturing economy and rein in the US […]
[PDF file]: […] in print, I point to General Lyman Lemnitzer, ex US Chief of the General Staff, later NATO supremo, as a key figure involved in the assassination of JFK.’ The reality is a disappointment, to say the least. There is almost no documentation. We have hundreds of pages of unsupported assertion; and if you are […]
[PDF file]: […] supporter of Italy’s Christian Democrats. See FBI memo from Special Agent in Charge, New York, to Director, FBI, May 15, 1963, record identifier 124-10215-10313, Records of the JFK Assassination, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). On Brod’s later work investigating ‘Italian politicians and fascists, political parties, Nazi fugitives, CP activities and Soviet and Chinese […]
[PDF file]: The writer with no hands Matthew Alford www.amazon.co.uk/Writer-No-Hands-MatthewAlford/dp/1530122651 Alford completed a PhD, which became the book Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy (London: Pluto, 2010). His central thesis of that is that large budget, mainstream American movies, ‘….almost always express the notion that in its foreign policy, the endless wars in which it engages, […]
[PDF file]: […] Texas Democrats, has not been documented. He does link Jack Ruby to the Dallas Civello gang, but there is nothing in this book linking the shooting of JFK to Civello/Marcello/Mondolini. North would have us conclude that this inference is inescapable. But it isn’t. Pursuing this thesis North has to ignore much of the extant […]
[PDF file]: ALL RIGHT BOYS General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy Jeffrey H. Caufield, MD. Moreland, Ohio: Moreland Press, 2015. 987 pp., illustrated, notes, index. This is a monumental work based on some twenty-five years of archival research and personal interviews. There is much new information here that fills out the sketchier accounts on many […]
[PDF file]: Too Stoned The Atlantic and its Enemies: a personal history of the Cold War Norman Stone London: Allen Lane, 2010, £30, h/b You remember Norman Stone: one of Mrs Thatcher’s favourite historians and occasional speechwriter for her. I had not read any of his books but I picked up a copy of this in my […]
[PDF file]: […] his eligibility. Birtherism was not just used against Obama! The ultimate strike against Cruz, however, was the National Enquirer front page headline ‘TED CRUZ FATHER LINKED TO JFK ASSASSINATION’. Once again, Trump claimed to have nothing to do with this story being run, but once it was out there took relentless advantage of it. […]
[PDF file]: […] offered a Harvard fellowship; her second marriage was to the American political academic Richard Neustadt who had spent time discreetly monitoring Hugh Gaitskell’s Labour Party for the JFK White House; and even as an SDP politician briefly in the Commons and then in the Lords, she was regularly back among the liberal East Coast […]
