Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] with high profile campaigns. Kevin McMahon, of Merseyside Against Injustice, joined the Merseyside Police in 1979 and subsequently worked as a detective, working on drugs, vice and murder, and as a Special Branch officer. He had formally been a special investigator in the Royal Military Police. He described how, as a serving police officer, […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] Sample.(2) Theirs is a wonderful, quirky story. In 1971 Mark Collum met Lawrence ‘Loy’ Factor, an American Indian,(3) a WW2 veteran who was in jail for a murder he claimed he didn’t commit. Collum and Factor both had hepatitis and were in an isolation ward together. Factor confessed in vague terms to being part […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] are trying to force the British government to investigate two murders that the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) were directly responsible for. They are the “Bulgarian Umbrella” murder of Georgi Markov in 1978 (a British double agent tricked the Bulgarians into murdering him) and the murder of the newspaper owner Robert Maxwell in 1991. […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] he acted alone….But no serious scholar of the president’s assassination will ever write again on the subject without citing Bugliosi….With this work, Bugliosi has definitively explained the murder that recalibrated America. It is a book for the ages.’ ‘Bugliosi is refreshing because he doesn’t just pick apart the conspiracy theorists. He ridicules them, and […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] the cover-up. More tentatively he offers the outline of the Billy Sol Estes – Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace story. He does not take seriously the claim that the murder was organised by LBJ’s lawyer/fixer, Ed Clark, using ‘Mac’ Wallace, as suggested in Barr McClellan’s Blood, Money and Power (6) but he does mention Sample and […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: Wrong on Rwanda Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad Michela Wrong London: 4th Estate, 2021, £10.99, p/b John Newsinger In its 18 September 2021 issue, The Spectator published a powerful article, ‘When will Britain wake up to the horror of Rwanda’s President?’, written by Michela […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: Notting Hill in Ye Olden Tyme Murder in Notting Hill Mark Olden Winchester, UK: Zero Books, 2011, 196pps, illus., notes and sources, p/b, £11.99. The murder of the black carpenter Kelso Cochrane on the streets of Notting Hill by a white gang in 1959 has never gone away. Never gone away because it was […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: A Thorn in Their Side The Hilda Murrell murder Robert Green with Kate Dewes New Zealand: Rata Books, 2011; 210 pp., index, photographs, p/b, 40 NZ dollars O nce upon a time I used to know something about the Hilda Murrell case. At any rate, a piece about it without an author, therefore by […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: Mary’s Mosaic The CIA conspiracy to murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer and their vision for world peace Peter Janney New York: Skyhorse, 2012, $26.95, h/b M ary Pinchot Meyer is one of the footnotes to the Kennedy assassination. She married future CIA bigwig Cord Meyer in 1945 and their social circle in […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: ALL RIGHT BOYS General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy Jeffrey H. Caufield, MD. Moreland, Ohio: Moreland Press, 2015. 987 pp., illustrated, notes, index. This is a monumental work based on some twenty-five years of archival research and personal interviews. There is much new information here that fills out the sketchier accounts on […]
