[…] investigation. The Fourth Decade had a great mix of scholarship and good writing – exemplified by ‘You Don’t Know Me But You Will: the World of Jack Ruby’ (TTD November 1987), and ‘These Are A Few of my Favorite Forgeries’ (TTD March 1986) by the editor/publisher Jerry D. Rose. It also featured a number […]
[…] lawbreaking detailed in this book,(12) the political volte face from cold war to detente, the accumulation of enemies at every turn, Hersh’s overall conclusion that ‘Oswald and Ruby acted alone’ (p.451) is explicable only in terms of the near elemental fear that the subject evokes in the American journalistic psyche. If anything, the mountain […]
[…] Deep Politics is also a collection of dense, fascinating bits and pieces from the Scott canon; Scott on JFK and Vietnam (politely devastating Noam Chomsky); Scott on Ruby, narcotics, Army Intelligence, the Great Southwest Corporation and so forth. If it’s not the massive, synthesising masterpiece I was hoping for it’s still a wonderful piece […]
[…] contacts with OSS. We might now reasonably expect a plausible hypothesis on the JFK assassination to include a role for both organisations. A crude Mob hit (with Ruby tidying-up the loose ends on the ground), followed by a sophisticated CIA-directed cover-up, perhaps? In Lobster 23 I hypothesized, semi-seriously, that the straw which finally triggered […]
[PDF file]: […] of pure disinformation that he was deliberately feeding to Time Inc., via the receptive Clare Boothe Luce. As for the ‘piece of paper’ that proved Oswald and Ruby knew each other, absolutely no-one else has ever mentioned seeing this explosive document, let In English, the ‘Student Revolutionary Directorate’. The DRE had been pro-revolution during […]
[PDF file]: […] My view of it changes. About 20 years ago I would have said that the Mafia probably did it: how else to explain the role of Jack Ruby? But though there have been a number of reports of mafiosi claiming to have done it, success has a thousand fathers and there is no actual […]
[…] My view of it changes. About 20 years ago I would have said that the Mafia probably did it: how else to explain the role of Jack Ruby? But though there have been a number of reports of mafiosi claiming to have done it, success has a thousand fathers and there is no actual […]
[PDF file]: […] he had met with his brother Malcolm Liggett in suspicious circumstances following the assassination. In particular, the authenticity of a photograph allegedly showing Malcolm Liggett with Jack Ruby was strongly contested. The History Channel settled out of court for an undisclosed sum in March 2004. This lawsuit does not appear to alter the rest […]
[PDF file]: […] how significant organised crime funds were to LBJ’s political rise, or to the Johnson-supporting faction of the 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] More precisely, West was working on the ‘induction of abnormal states’. Jolyon West was the shrink assigned by the Warren Commission in 1965 to psychiatrically examine Jack Ruby, the mobster who slew Lee Harvey Oswald. West examined Ruby alone in his prison cell and emerged to report that had suffered an ‘acute psychotic break’. […]
