[PDF file]: The President and the Provocateur The parallel lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald Alex Cox Harpenden (UK); Oldcastle Books, 2013, £12.99, p/b T his is Alex Cox’s take on the Kennedy assassination; and ‘take’ is apposite because this is Alex Cox the filmmaker1 and occasional contributor to these columns. Cox presents two parallel […]
[PDF file]: […] even begin to summarise here, and they have been debated hotly before Horne even got to them. This was the argument being presented by James Douglass in JFK: The Unspeakable, which I reviewed here in Lobster, an effort to try to narrow what might be called suspects in the macro conspiracy. Work like Horne’s […]
[…] him that the paymaster for the hit, codenamed ‘Troit’, set Oswald up as a patsy. Who was ‘Troit’? McDonald ‘reveals’ in his later book LBJ And The JFK Conspiracy, that the KGB planned the assassination between 1961 and 1963. (Interestingly enough, McDonald’s co-author, Robin Moore, produced the film MacArthur with funds from the Unification […]
[…] Steamshovel Press. Now up to number 7, and appearing quarterly, Steamshovel is 60 pages. I have 5, 6 and 7. Number 5, Summer 92, has interviews about JFK (and JFK) with Mark Lane, Dick Gregory, Kerry Thornley and Jim Marrs; a piece on alternative AIDS cures; pieces titled ‘KKK, GOP and CIA’ and ‘An […]
[…] had the FBI in its pocket until the sixties and the arrival of the Kennedys, seems to add further weight to the notion that the Mob shot JFK — essentially to turn off Bobby Kennedy’s ‘war on crime’. Except…. the problem with the Kennedy story is distinguishing between myth and reality. Was there actually […]
[…] PRI (Partido Revoluncionario Internacional), was assassinated in Tijuana. The TV coverage of the event was every bit as obscure and unhelpful as the TV reporting after the JFK murder and worse than the coverage of the attempt on Ronald Regan’s life. The news video of the assassination didn’t play once; instead heads talked and […]
[…] were serious. Both ‘plots’ were exposed by tip-offs. The authors assert that all three attempts – Dallas being the third – were the mob trying to kill JFK; that the mob created three identical plots: ambush by rifle fire during motorcades with a patsy on the scene to be given to the police. Not […]
Edited by James H. Fetzer Catfeet Press, Chicago Distributed in the UK by The Eurospan Group, 3 Henrietta St, London WC2E 8LU at £29.50 (hb) £14.95 (pb) This is a very important contribution to the primary research on the Kennedy assassination. It contains essays which prove (a) that the Zapruder film was substantially edited … Read more
[…] and the broadsides he fired into the Chief Justice’s Report hastened its demise in the eyes of the public. This would be Garrison’s great contribution to the JFK mystery. The Zapruder film was shown ten times during the course of the trial to demonstrate the ‘triangulation of cross-fire’ that Garrison claimed killed Kennedy. On […]
[…] of the original, though this does sometimes wander a few pages one way or the other. Nevertheless, this is a start. The late Larry Howard of the JFK Assassination Centre in Dallas seems to have been the progenitor of this project. It is a fitting tribute to him. NOTE: if you are outside the […]
