[…] 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 […]
[…] personality, with the aid of hypnosis’, a procedure which the good doctor described as ‘child’s play’. Estabrooks even offered the suggestion that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby ‘could very well have been performing through hypnosis.’ The article’s date? May 13, 1968, two weeks before the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: the title? ‘To […]
[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]: […] in life tried unsuccessfully to emigrate to Israel. Lansky was connected to two gangsters closely involved in the JFK assassination plot. The first of these was Jack Ruby who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald before the supposed killer of JFK could testify. “I’m just a patsy,” Oswald had famously said after his arrest. […]
[…] in life tried unsuccessfully to emigrate to Israel. Lansky was connected to two gangsters closely involved in the JFK assassination plot. The first of these was Jack Ruby who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald before the supposed killer of JFK could testify. “I’m just a patsy,” Oswald had famously said after his arrest. […]
[…] in life tried unsuccessfully to emigrate to Israel. Lansky was connected to two gangsters closely involved in the JFK assassination plot. The first of these was Jack Ruby who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald before the supposed killer of JFK could testify. “I’m just a patsy,” Oswald had famously said after his arrest. […]
