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Mob Rule. The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America 1947-2000

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 […]

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How to Fix an Election

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 […]

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RIP The Fourth Decade and Probe

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 […]

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Dallas again

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the JFK researchers are the two areas which I have written about in these columns over the past 20 years or so: the putative link to LBJ through Billie Sol Estes and ‘Mac’ Wallace, and Chauncey Holt’s account of being an unwitting part of the technical support for the operation. Two other serious […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue

[…] they do. Another little detail looms larger than perhaps it should: the fact that Robert Caro chose to omit Billie Sol Estes entirely from his account of LBJ in the 1960s. Caro’s quartet of books about LBJ are a monument – perhaps the monument – in American political biography. Caro is unflinching in presenting […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

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[PDF file]: […] they do. Another little detail looms larger than perhaps it should: the fact that Robert Caro chose to omit Billie Sol Estes entirely from his account of LBJ in the 1960s. Caro’s quartet of books about LBJ are a monument – perhaps the monument – in American political biography. Caro is unflinching in presenting […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

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[PDF file]: […] the suicided Estes witnesses. Who would murder Marshall but someone threatened by his inquiries? Who was most threatened? Estes himself and, if we believe Estes on this, LBJ whom Estes had been paying-off for years. This is the central point of the LBJ-dunnit thesis: JFK’s death was merely one in a series linked to […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the suicided Estes witnesses. Who would murder Marshall but someone threatened by his inquiries? Who was most threatened? Estes himself and, if we believe Estes on this, LBJ whom Estes had been paying-off for years. This is the central point of the LBJ-dunnit thesis: JFK’s death was merely one in a series linked to […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] as mine as to why Hunt’s confession has been rubbished and ignored by the research community. My guess would be that Hunt was blanked because he named LBJ as being part of the conspiracy and LBJ-dunnit remains unthinkable for most of the JFK researchers.19 In the case of Holt, in so far as they […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

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[PDF file]: […] as mine as to why Hunt’s confession has been rubbished and ignored by the research community. My guess would be that Hunt was blanked because he named LBJ as being part of the conspiracy and LBJ-dunnit remains unthinkable for most of the JFK researchers.19 In the case of Holt, in so far as they […]