Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] speakers, Melanie Klein and Don Yates, as reported in the magazine, made the following errors: Called the author of Crossfire, Jim Morrison, not Jim Marrs. Claimed that LBJ and Jackie Kennedy spent the whole flight from Dallas to Washington in the plane with the dead JFK’s body (‘were with the body the entire trip’). […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] especially the Democrats with their long history of links to organised crime, had nothing to gain from the enthusiastic “pursuit of the truth’. (This applied spectacularly to LBJ, one of the most corrupt politicians in history.) In 1963 the American public had no idea of the intimate relationship between organised crime and the funding […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] within days – that a nut had killed Kennedy, and he himself had been killed by another nut, with the possibility of a conspiracy being highly implausible. LBJ could have saved himself the trouble of setting up a commission and saved the Republic a serious amount of dollars by simply parachuting in über-attorney Bugliosi. […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] most of the key points made by Brandon are supported by recently released papers in the National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office). Highlights are the Wilson- LBJ relationship (uneasy), an account of Chancellor Jim Callaghan’s encounter with the US President in July 1965, Wilson’s difficulties with Lord Cromer (Governor of the Bank of […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] US far right groups. is Daniel Brandt’s site which monitors Google’s activities and protocols. JFK: Billy Sol Estes A long, detailed account of the Billy Sol Estes- LBJ fraud story by Larry Hancock, is on the Net in two parts: part 1 is at and part 2 at This is by far the biggest […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
NB This essay has been compressed a good deal. The longer version is at < http://www.pertier.com/demos.html > Ostensibly a left-leaning ‘think tank’, Demos’ initial Advisory Board gathered mostly those who wished to extend ‘Thatcherism’ into the ‘New Labour’ project. The Advisory Board Martin JacquesHis time in the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) has been […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] known how many contributions Meyer Lansky had made to Humphrey’s various campaigns. (When Humphrey later took his oath as vice president of the US in 1965 under LBJ, the Bible he swore on was held for him by one of his old patrons, Minneapolis vice lord Fred Gates.) Adlai Stevenson won the nomination and […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] to have robbed Nixon of the 1960 election.(15) Nixon, in turn, scuppered the Democrats in 1968, by persuading the Vietnamese to hold out on peace negotiations with LBJ, with the promise that they’d get a much better deal under a Nixon White House. Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey discovered what was going on while travelling […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] category. For all his wealth and foreign adventurism, JFK was extremely (politically) liberal. He began much of the civil rights legislation which was seen to completion by LBJ. He was interventionist rather than laissez-faire; he picked fights with the directors of US Steel and with the oil companies. And he was killed in that […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] the Anglo-American intelligence and surveillance system, notably some GCHQ bases in the Far East, provided intelligence to the US. But despite a great deal of arm-twisting from LBJ, and despite Wilson’s utter dependence on the US at this point for financial assistance to defend the value of the pound, Harold Wilson refused to send […]