[…] dollars supporting, buying and circulating the books and magazines of the conspiracy theorists. Did we ever find out who had been funding Lyndon LaRouche, for example? Stone’s JFK Those with access to academic libraries might like to glance at a symposium on the Oliver Stone movie, JFK, in The American Historical Review (Vol 97, […]
[…] may not have anything new of substance to tell us about the assassination per se but has much new material about events before and after it. Talbot’s JFK is a complex figure and while a politician, with all that entails about strategies and the primacy of electoral considerations, he was also (by American standards) […]
[…] that the idea of a meta-conspiracy isn’t attractive. Faced with a cover-up extending across the intelligence services, the mass media, and the political establishment, many of the JFK researchers made the not unreasonable assumption that it was co-ordinated, and that its purpose was the concealment of the identities of the real assassins. (In some […]
[…] Garrison and Permindex again In an article in the American journal The Wilson Quarterly of Spring 2001, Max Holland reexamined Jim Garrison’s investigation of the assassination of JFK and concluded that he was at least in part inspired to do so by some Soviet disinformation about the case. Yes, we are back with the […]
[…] but it isn’t. The energy released by the propellant is transferred to the unhindered projectile. The authors do not even understand basic ballistics. They noted: ‘Oliver Stone’s JFK asserted that the bullet would have had to follow a zigzag course to hit both JFK and Governor Connally. That would be true only if you […]
[PDF file]: The G-man and the switchman: Two JFK microstudies by professional investigators Garrick Alder 1 From an Office Building with a High-powered Rifle Don Adams Trine Day Publishing (USA); 2012 ISBN 978-1-936296-86-6 Author Don Adams was already investigating the JFK assassination before it had even happened. On 13 November 1963 he was called at his […]
[PDF file]: A bullet to the head for the James Files JFK ‘confession’ Garrick Alder In a cell in an Illinois prison sits a 75-year-old ex-Mafia man who says he was the real assassin of US President John F Kennedy. James Files, who claims he was the legendary ‘grassy knoll gunman’ of 22 November 1963, is […]
[PDF file]: An offer we can refuse The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination Lamar Waldron Berkeley, California: Counterpoint, 2013, h/b, £20 (approx.) Waldron has some form. This is his third book on JFK and is largely a rehashing and enlargement of the previous two.1 He has earlier argued for a secret Kennedy venture known as […]
[PDF file]: […] threats to LBJ’s political career were the immediate cause of JFK’s assassination. I didn’t think the author would have any new evidence on the actual assassination (the JFK networks would be humming with it if he had) and he doesn’t. But it is a good, detailed summary of what is out there. As a […]
[PDF file]: The Lone Star Speaks Untold Texas Stories about the JFK Assassination Sara Peterson and K. W. Zachry Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 2020, $28.95 www.bancroftpress.com Robin Ramsay This is a very interesting and big book (over 500 pages if you include the end notes).1 The authors’ choice of format has determined the book’s shape. Each chapter […]
