The G-man and the switchman: Two JFK microstudies by professional investigators

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] Milteer was in Quitman at the time of the assassination. By providing false information, someone essentially gave an alibi to a suspect known to have planned to kill the president. (p. 60) (Emphasis in the original.) Another possibility, in fact the only other possibility, is that there was no ‘someone’, and McMahon had outright […]

The Crimes of Empire by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] culture’. On the eve of the Iraq war Bush could say, ’I don’t care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some ass.’ (I kill, therefore I am.) This, Professor Boggs comments, was merely a reflection of a deep-seated national exceptionalism and shared political consensus. Congress even passed a law in […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] but I cannot interpret X-rays. The third recent correspondent sent me a registered parcel containing two letters about an elaborate – if barely intelligible – plot to kill her because she uncovered ‘a network of cameras in my flat and the people behind it, who run a voyeur/porn/rape + snuff movie website/network/ business want […]

The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] blackmail-suicide exercise against MLK,4 in which tapes of (married) Dr King with other women were sent to the Kings’ address with poison pen letters telling MLK to kill himself or be exposed. October 17, 1963 Assistant FBI director Alan Belmont 5 wrote to FBI associate-director Clyde Tolson (Hoover’s lifelong companion, and alleged lover). Belmont […]

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