The G-man and the switchman: Two JFK microstudies by professional investigators

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] Bureau employees doing what Shanklin had done would have, at best, been terminated. At worst, that employee could have been prosecuted for destruction of documents in a murder investigation, i.e. the Oswald letter and its tie-in to the Kennedy assassination. Of Shanklin, Mr Adams notes: ‘The man was scared of his own shadow’. (p. […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

Lobster Issue

[…] with the Secret Service at the door. While Harvey didn’t look like James Bond, he was just as lethal, and has been considered a suspect in the murder of JFK. After attending a party at Philby’s apartment in Washington, Harvey also was one of the first to claim that Philby and Burgess were Soviet […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] syndicate’s Asian Meyer Lansky. Captured by the Japanese after the invasion of the Philippines, Lewin ran gambling operations even in jail. He later became part of a Murder Incorporatedstyle outfit set up by top McArthur aide named General Charles Willoughby who ran Army Intelligence (G-2) during the U.S. occupation of Japan. He worked closely […]

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] months after Blair was re-elected in June 2001. The September 11 attacks were rather like the Cuban missile crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall and the murder of President Kennedy all rolled into one. While in many ways the noughties (up until 2008) represented the continuation of the nineties by other means, the […]

What Did You Do During the War? The Last Throes of the British Pro-Nazi Right, 1940-45 by Richard Griffiths

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Fascists, like Rolf Gardiner, became pioneers of the nascent Green movement, promoting agricultural reform and ecological awareness. Some became involved in pro-Arab, antiZionist activism, particularly following the murder of two British sergeants by the Israeli terrorist group, Irgun, in 1947. Others, such as the Earl of Portsmouth, went to Africa after the War to […]

The Christian Right Revisited

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] record of what actually transpired during the Trump Presidency. In her first chapter, ‘The Burning Church’, which deals with the rioting and protests provoked by the police murder of George Floyd, she hilariously describes Trump as ‘a hard worker, generally amicable and typically good at lightening the mood’. One of her proudest moments during […]

Deep Kiss: How the Washington Post missed the biggest Watergate story of all

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] then aged 40, who had returned from a tour of duty in Vietnam disillusioned and disgusted with his nation’s ‘bloody, hopeless, uncompelled, and surely immoral prolongation mass murder.’ Ellsberg declared: ‘I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen, I could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public. […]

Trump, the US Military and the American Empire

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] of 2018. Until recently they have by and large maintained their silence regarding their experiences as members of the Trump administration. In the aftermath of the police murder of George Floyd and of Trump’s threatening to use troops against Black Lives Matter protesters, Mattis has spoken out. The violent clearing of peaceful protesters from […]

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