LBJ: doubles and disinformation

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] that this was another of Liggett’s killings, although he did not say why Liggett would wait several years (and until LBJ had quit politics and died) to kill Peck’s widow, too. The obvious implication is that Mrs Peck’s death was connected to knowledge of her late husband’s role as LBJ’s ‘body double’. At his […]

The Plots Against the President, by Sally Denton

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] policies got steadily deeper. The lame duck had, so to speak, cooked his own goose. But it was during this critical handover period that someone tried to kill Roosevelt. Who remembers Giuseppe Zangara today? He is an unknown to the general public, and even aficionados of assassinations would be hard-pressed to say much about […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] to write what became Legend at a time when the CIA was under intense scrutiny for a series of illegal activities, most famously a CIAMafia plot to kill Fidel Castro. The political climate led to investigations by the Senate Church Committee and the creation of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA). The CIA […]

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