[…] one of these compendiums, it is pretty much as you would expect: short sections on subjects ranging from the silly (Jim Morrison’s death/non-death) to the serious ( JFK, 9-11). The bigger the subject, the less satisfactory are the sections. To be of any interest a book like this demands that the author/s know the […]
[…] Mental Collapse of Lyndon Johnson D. Jablow Hershman New Jersey: Barricade, 2002, $27.95 Colin Challen MP I tend to the view, presented succinctly in Who Shot JFK?, (10) that whoever assassinated Kennedy did so with the objective of installing LBJ as President. The tantalising question that arises is: did LBJ know? This book […]
[PDF file]: […] there is a list of some of the books on the Kennedy assassination that were published in 2017. Among them is a new edition of John Newman’s JFK and Vietnam. I have both his Oswald and the CIA and Where Angels Tread Lightly: the Assassination of President Kennedy, Volume 1. I have read the […]
[PDF file]: Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate Jonathan Marshall Note: this article is excerpted from an unpublished book titled Watergate, the American Deep State, and the Legacy of Secret Government by Jonathan Marshall. The Watergate affair of 1972-74, though widely regarded as one of the the […]
[PDF file]: Without Smoking Gun: Was the Death of Lt. Cmdr. William Pitzer Part of the JFK Assassination Cover-Up Conspiracy? Kent Heiner Trine Day, 2004, p/b, £16 (approximation from current dollar value) A catchy title for a book this is not, although given that Lt. Cmdr. Pitzer is such an obscure figure you can hardly fault […]
[PDF file]: […] Phil Shenon and Virginia professor Larry Sabato, are deliberately making assertions they know to be false. I know Shenon and Sabato. Both are very knowledgable about the JFK story . . . . I have no reason to believe they are making assertions they know to be false.’ In a way there is no […]
JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux Robin Ramsay The identity of the three ‘tramps’, photographed under police escort in Dallas after the assassination of JFK, is one of the many puzzles in the case. Over the years people have put forward various candidates. For example, the ‘old tramp’ looks rather like […]
[…] 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 […]
Robin Ramsay The identity of the three ‘tramps’, photographed under police escort in Dallas after the assassination of JFK, is one of the many puzzles in the case. Over the years people have put forward various candidates. For example, the ‘old tramp’ looks rather like the CIA officer Howard Hunt. But only one person […]
[PDF file]: Destiny Betrayed JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison case James DiEugenio New York: Skyhorse, 2012, $16.95, paperback This is the second edition of DiEugenio’s book. The first edition is among the hundreds of JFK assassination books I have not read. DiEugenio is very good indeed, as a quick perusal of some of his writing at […]
