Historical Notes

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 […]

Sources

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 […]

Demos

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 […]

The JFK literature: some recent titles

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] 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 […]

Battling Wall Street: the Kennedy Presidency

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Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

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 […]

Kennedy Miscellany

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’). […]

Briefly

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein, (Penguin 2007) X Films: true confessions of a radical filmmaker Alex Cox, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008 Managing Britannia: Culture and Management in Modern Britain Robert Protherough and John Pick, imprint-academic.com, ISBN 978-097645539 Guns for Hire Tony Geraghty, Piatkus, 2008 A People’s History of American Empire: a […]

Late breaking news on Clay Shaw’s United Kingdom contacts

Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££

[…] Be were showing an abiding concern and interest in the Garrison investigation. President Johnson called Acting Attorney General Ramsay Clark and spoke to him about Ferrie’s death. LBJ was ‘very concerned about this matter’ and wanted full details. On March 1st Ferrie was buried and Garrison announced the arrest of Clay L. Shaw for […]

The crony capitalists: a fond farewell to some regular guys?

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

The incompetence which has been the hallmark of the world’s ‘most powerful man’ has left the world with a legacy we can only begin to rub our eyes at: George W. Bush’s successful derailing of concerted action on climate change; an energy crisis; a $3 trillion war (that’s just the cost to the Americans of […]

Brief Notes on the Political Importance of Secret Societies (Part 2)

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] and learned from him that the paymaster for the hit, codenamed ‘Troit’, set Oswald up as a patsy. Who was ‘Troit’? McDonald ‘reveals’ in his later book LBJ And The JFK Conspiracy, that the KGB planned the assassination between 1961 and 1963. (Interestingly enough, McDonald’s co-author, Robin Moore, produced the film MacArthur with funds […]

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