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 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] the U.S. invasion, and secondly by being there even when Iraq was run by Saddam. Has crony capitalism evolved since the days when Brown and Root pump-primed LBJ for special treatment? Whilst the Brown brothers set out to win government business by developing what by today’s standards would be judged corrupt means, and to […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] then and his ignorance in the late 1990s when he wrote this is difficult to comprehend or excuse. Crucially, he accepts the received view that JFK and LBJ were the same: he is apparently unaware of JFK’s plan to pull the US out of Vietnam. ‘Nor is there any reasons to suppose that things […]
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 […]