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 […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] war who has talked a length, but one who was working, liaising with the RUC, in the Portadown area, one of the hot spots. Taylor discusses the murder of the IRA man John FrancisGreen by Protestant paramilitaries. Fred Holroyd was told by Captain Robert Nairac that he, Nairac, had been involved in the shooting. […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] I was accepted as a member of the Institute of Professional Investigators. My experiences between (—–) until the present time are all relevant to the (Hilda) Murrell murder in that it can be plainly seen there is a very close link between the IPI and government agencies who were responsible for monitoring the activities […]
Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££
[…] with great concern because it illustrates the political difficulties we are likely to face if we become involved. Reference B which deals with the circumstances surrounding the murder of Brian McDermott last year puts forward the theory that the killing had both sexual and witchcraft overtones. The only link that can be identified between […]