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 […]
[…] chapter in Jim Marrs’ Crossfire (New York: Pocket Books, 1993), pp. 555-66, the fullest account preceeding the present work. But why include names like J. Edgar Hoover, LBJ, John Connally, and others who simply died of old age years later? BROWN, WALT. The J.F.K. Assassination Quiz Book: Test Your Knowledge. Santa Barbara, CA: Open […]
Donald Gibson Sheridan Square Press, Inc., New York 1994 What was JFK’s economic policy? If you can give any kind of detailed answer, you are a better man than me, Gunga Din. Kennedy’s economic policy is an area of his administration which is rarely discussed in parapolitics. (Who cares about taxation policy when you’ve got […]
[…] 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’). […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] of things did strike me. On Israeli nuclear development: “Perhaps the most significant development of 1963 for the Israeli nuclear programme, however, occurred on November 22nd … LBJ was sworn in..” (p165) “Kennedy was less than whole-heartedly pro-Israeli.” Author Green comments on a Kennedy-Golda Meir exchange that it was “the last time for many, […]
[…] and Carter – who tried to slow/stop the nuclear arms race, were right. But Kennedy was killed (if not by the Pentagon, by one of the politicians, LBJ, who fronted for it on Capitol Hill) and Carter retreated when his talk of nuclear disarmament was rubbished at home and in the Kremlin (where there […]
[…] of sense, why do something so massive and so economically destructive? The same propaganda effect, the same stampeding of Congress, could have been achieved with infinitely less. LBJ stampeded Congress with nothing more than radar contacts between North Vietnamese and US boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. If you wanted to blame al-Qaeda for […]
[…] ex-Presidents Nelson Mandela for instance. Celebrities have occasionally dropped by. But it is instructive to think back just a few years. Would we have seen, say LBJ and Robert Redford in the same venue Blackpool in 1972, perhaps being introduced by that years Conference Chair, Tony Benn? Perhaps the episode represents […]
