Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] seemed to have spotted that Robert Caro had omitted a large chunk of material about Billie Sol Estes and other Texas shenanigans from his celebrated biography of LBJ. Since then JFK researcher Robert Morrow sent out a link to a video of him asking Robert Caro at a recent public meeting why he had […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] the Watergate story didn’t appear to interest Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as they pressed ahead with their investigation of the Watergate burglary itself. LBJ knew In office between 1963 and 1968, Lyndon Baines Johnson was the first US president who routinely tape-recorded his meetings and telephone conversations. One tape from […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] power. With Robert Kennedy assassinated and sitting President Johnson having announced he wouldn’t run again, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate was Hubert Humphrey. To bolster Humphrey’s chances, LBJ tried to organise a temporary halt to the Vietnam War before the election. The Nixon team heard about this and set about frustrating it. Through Anna […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] events that day in Dallas. The only member of the cast of characters definitely identified around the assassination is Jack Ruby; and while in prison Ruby identified LBJ as the man behind the shooting. Although I disagree with DiEugenio’s thesis, this is a really good book, with much new and newish material. Highly recommended. […]