The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] fact that Linsey kept on his payroll a senior member of the New England Mafia, Mike Rocco. Rocco was a numbers racketeer arrested at various times for murder, extortion, and robbery. Linsey had once been co-owner of the Sahara Motel in Miami with Sam Tucker, a noted bootlegger, gambler, and prominent member (with Moe […]

The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy by Graeme MacQueen

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] either as accessories before or accessories after the fact. I believe that there are others out there, I believe there are others who could be charged with murder. I just want you to know how I feel about it, as one of the people who was aimed at in the attack.’ 7 What the […]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] was about to fly to the UK? If the events around Hess, the Duke of Hamilton, Duke of Kent and others in May 1941 were, say, a murder trial or an investigation into a bank robbery, peculiar diary entries by Channon – a very close friend of Kent – would be of interest to […]

The President’s Mortician by Tim Fleming

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] and the JFK killing in particular. The narrative of The President’s Mortician is compelling and convincingly unpredictable, despite being entirely based on a completely bogus ‘McGuffin’ (the murder of a fictional character by the real-life Liggett and the characters’ attempts to solve the case). Of particular interest to researchers will be the ‘book within […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] Oswald after his return from the Soviet Union.54 This makes no difference to my conclusions in that essay but still . . . 2) Rob Reiner The murder of film director Rob Reiner and his wife got much mainstream media attention, in none which did I see any reference to his work in the […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] may have accounted for the freewheeling and slightly disorganised nature of some of his shows. This was not the first time Dee had been associated with the murder of JFK. In 1969 he had tried to get a copy of the Zapruder film for broadcasting on Dee Time. 26 A discussion of the little […]

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