The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must, Garrick Alder and Sally Walker for editorial assistance with this edition of Lobster. Just another Texas murder? CovertAction Magazine has an essay by its editor, Jeremy Kuzamarov, on the murders which accompanied LBJ’s rise to power.1 The essay is very good, throughly documented. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] large rehashes of the LBJ-dunnit thesis. One is by Ron Unz, who does a competent job running through the literature.55 Much better, though, is M. C. Armstrong’s ‘Murder Most Foul: The Role of Lyndon Johnson in the Murder of John F. Kennedy’,56 which presents the evidence (but ignores some of the difficulties). Armstrong joins […]

Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] carrying out assassinations, terrorism and coup-plotting. The ‘strategy of tension’ in Italy in the late 1960s and 70s, in which the right carried out acts of mass murder and terror which were then blamed on the left, was partly the work of Gladio. In Turkey the Gladio units slaughtered the left, trade unionists and […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] another bombing suspect has been apprehended after explosions were caused in the hearts of urban areas in the US. Ahmad Khan Rahami is in custody, charged with murder for having planted the explosive devices in Manhattan and New Jersey (as well as apparently abandoning some more bombs in a New Jersey train). Depressingly, it […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] night Wallace at first denied that he had seen Lewis but then admitted that they had met as stated in the diary. Wallace was originally charged with murder but the trial judge, Mr Justice Kilber-Brown, directed that the charge be withdrawn because of the weakness 73 of the prosecution case. The trial was repeatedly […]

The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] riot, JFK was listening to King’s oratory with a speechmaker’s ear, and murmuring: ‘That guy is really good.’ In Spring of 1964, a few months after JFK’s murder, Hoover shared with the shattered RFK selected recordings from bugs planted in MLK’s hotel rooms, which had at last captured decisive proof of King’s adulterous abandon. […]

Misc reviews

Lobster Issue

[…] carrying out assassinations, terrorism and coup-plotting. The ‘strategy of tension’ in Italy in the late 1960s and 70s, in which the right carried out acts of mass murder and terror which were then blamed on the left, was partly the work of Gladio. In Turkey the Gladio units slaughtered the left, trade unionists and […]

Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland by Anne Cadwallader

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] for fear of alienating what it perceived as the host (Protestant) population. In the earliest mainstream account of these Loyalist killings, Martin Dillon and Denis Lehane’s Political Murder in Northern Ireland (1973), the absence of prosecutions for these murders was attributed to the police force, the RUC, being overwhelmed by the number of deaths. […]

Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: Stan Bonnett and the Price of Admiralty Murder in Cairo,1 the book about the life and death of David Holden, chief foreign correspondent of the Sunday Times, got me thinking about one of Holden’s Fleet Street contemporaries, Stanley Bonnett. In 1960, in the twilight of the colonial empires, both Holden and Bonnett worked in […]

LBJ: doubles and disinformation

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] rest of the former Mrs Liggett’s claims, although it may cast some doubt on her reliability in general.2 In 1974 John Liggett was convicted of the attempted murder of Mrs Dorothy Peck, whom he had bludgeoned with a hammer before – apparently assuming Mrs Peck was dead – attempting to destroy the crime scene […]

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