[PDF file]: […] records, the invocation of “the ‘Who shot John?’ angle” can only refer to one thing: Kennedy’s assassination. The ambush in Dallas was the first thing on Nixon’s mind as he pressed the director for the agency’s Bay of Pigs files. The president intuited a connection between the failed invasion in 1961 and JFK’s assassination […]
[PDF file]: […] processes have been followed correctly. (This happened in the recent notorious case of Thomas Quick – a convicted serial killer who turned out not to be. Never mind; if the trial was conducted by the book, he must have been.) The Swedish police are pretty dodgy, too; look at the mess they made over […]
[PDF file]: […] of the Chicago mob, John Rosselli, told a fellow gangster how Korshak acted as the legitimate face of organized crime: One thing you’ve got to keep in mind with Korshak. He’s made millions for Chicago and he’s got plenty of clout in LA and Vegas. Sid’s really burrowed in. He’s real big with the […]
[PDF file]: […] Irving. The exposure of the bogus Sunday Times Hitler Diaries, and Irving’s recent humiliation in a London libel court (as recently retold in the film Denial), re mind us what happens to a historian when the world learns, beyond all doubt, that the historian has got it wrong. Neither Stalin, nor Churchill, the two […]
[PDF file]: […] be an increasing reliance on paying for health care. Considering this wide-ranging and consistent approach to ordering life in the UK, the only comparison that comes to mind is with 18th century style mercantilism. Are we returning to this? A society in which wealth is based on trade, commerce and property ownership rather than […]
[PDF file]: […] wrote while in prison. Ruby implies that reading the book would explain JFK’s assassination. Extracts are quoted on p. 604 of Phillip F. Nelson’s LBJ The Master mind of JFK’s Assassination (Xlibris, 2010). This was reviewed in Lobster 61 at or 4 or 5 Had Monbiot gone a step further he could have mentioned […]
[PDF file]: […] member John J. McCloy telling him that the Commission had come under enormous pressure to complete the Report before the 1964 election campaign began in September. (Never mind who shot JFK, we’ve got an election to fight!) It was McCloy who made Inquest possible by giving Epstein two boxes of Commission documents, including the […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. Unbecoming American Dr T. P. Wilkinson wrote a dozen or so striking essays for Lobster. Some of them are included in a collection of his essays, Unbecoming American: A War Memoir, available from Amazon.1 […]
