Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ on Dealey Plaza Robin Ramsay T he Kennedy assassination is now a vast field of subjects and I recently wandered into one: the three ‘tramps’ photographed being taken into custody on Dealey Plaza after the shooting. This is a classic JFK assassination quagmire:1 disputed photographic IDs; testimony from unreliable […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] vol. 1, no. 3, 1999, pp. 139–167. JSTOR, at (free sign-up required). 33 11 following year. After Kennedy’s death, Harry brought Time and Life magazines into the LBJ camp. This was partly out of pragmatism (the Luces still had personal connections to the new president), and partly because Johnson seemed likely to reinvigorate the […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] had visited Texas Ranger Clint Peoples who, 15 years or so later, would persuade Estes to talk about another of the murders committed by ‘Mac’ Wallace for LBJ. Peoples also subsequently died in a one–car crash and all his papers disappeared. And so on. The book is a shower of fragments including: hanky-panky with […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] election. The launch of Radio London had, though, been planned prior to polling day. It is not clear why Birch and Radio London needed the approval of LBJ to carry out a private commercial activity outside UK territorial waters. Birch was previously an accounts manager at J Walter Thompson, a leading advertising agency that […]