The Plots Against the President, by Sally Denton

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[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) FREE

[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 […]

The writer with no hands by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in which the US military and intelligence are thoroughly integrated, a system in which a really radical script simply wouldn’t get made. So who would bother to kill the writer when a word in the right ear would get the project dropped or modified? The answer to this may be that a criminal conspiracy […]

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