Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a total sale of over two million. As Leonard observes, the fact is ‘that there was a sizeable audience in the US for a song extolling mass murder’. (pp. 224-225) Presumably this did not perturb the FBI in the slightest. John Newsinger is a retired academic. His latest book is Chosen by God: Donald […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] Channel Four News’ investigation of the allegations of Colin Wallace. Wilkinson passed to Channel Four an elaborate smear about Wallace, accusing him of being an accessory to murder, which Wilkinson claimed came from one of his department’s researchers on the Wallace affair. Of course his department had no researchers working on Wallace and the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for a quote from Merle Miller’s Lyndon: an Oral Biography88 to the effect that senior CIA officer Richard Helms reported hearing LBJ, when president, saying that Kennedy’s murder was retribution for the murder of President Diem of South Vietnam some weeks before. Do we believe Helms? As CIA’s Deputy Director of Plans at the […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Saville Inquiry in 2003, with BBC news reporting: ‘Soldier F agreed at the Saville Inquiry on Thursday that he killed four people, but insisted he did not murder them. Soldier F admitted killing Michael Kelly, Barney McGuigan and Paddy Doherty and an unidentified man in Glenfada Park.’ 2 In 2011, an entry on the […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] politicians accounted for the dreadful state of Israeli politics. The political right wing continued to deny the Palestinians a homeland and of course, the zealots did eventually murder their own prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. My mentor knew his stuff and told me that he was working directly with Al, a word that […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] his private jet. See . 7 8 See . 9 See, for instance, . 10 Tony Geraghty, The Irish War (London: HarperCollins, 2000) p. 230. ‘Loughlin Maginn murder sparked events that led to collusion probe’, The Irish News, 17 September, 2022 at or . 11 3 There are potentially close to 100 similar cases12 […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] politicians accounted for the dreadful state of Israeli politics. The political right wing continued to deny the Palestinians a homeland and of course, the zealots did eventually murder their own prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. My mentor knew his stuff and told me that he was working directly with Al, a word that […]

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