Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££
[…] said that police enquiries have been frustrated by the silence of a former military officer, Colin Wallace, currently serving a ten-year sentence in Lewes, Sussex, for the murder of his mistress’s husband in 1980. Wallace told both the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the Sussex police that he would be in breach of the Official […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] taken of the event. Pepper was a friend of Martin Luther King’s in the 1960s and worked closely with him in some of his campaigns. After King’s murder he drifted away and took little interest in the case. A decade later he was asked to interview James Earl Ray and became fascinated by the […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] ‘Mac’ Wallace and LBJ thread which has been slowly insinuating itself into the JFK assassination research community. On p.40 Armstrong gives half a page to the 1951 murder by ‘Mac’ Wallace of a former boyfriend of LBJ’s sister. On p.656 Armstrong cites the Sample-Collum book, The Men on the 6th Floor, which includes Loy […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
Major Farran’s Hat: Murder, Scandal and Britain’s War Against Jewish Terrorism 1945-1948 David Cesarani London: William Heinemann, 2009, h/b, £20 On 6 May 1947 a British undercover squad, under the command of Major Roy Farran, picked up sixteen-year-old Alexander Rubowitz, a young Zionist activist. He was taken away for ‘interrogation’. After an hour […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] Office press release, 7 December 2005) () Murrell update Andrew George had another day in court on 9 June when his appeal against his conviction of the murder of Hilda Murrell was rejected by the Court of Appeal, Criminal Division.() However a number of interesting points did find their way into Lord Justice Moses’ […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] Jews again report a rise in antisemitism. I read these books after hearing Sir Gerald Kaufman in the Commons denounce Israeli attacks on Gaza. He described the murder of his Polish grandmother by a German soldier and then said: ‘My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
The Trial of Saddam Hussein Abdul Haq Al-Ani, Clarity Press, Atlanta, GA., 2008 Abdul-Haq Al-Ani’s troubling manifesto on behalf of the murdered Iraqi leader exposes bloody doings of empire from a lucid political-juridical perspective. ‘Imperialism is a universal historical phenomenon, but it remains, nevertheless, evil’, he writes (p. 23). ‘I use the term European [imperialism] … Read more
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] Pynchon novel. Butman and Sprinkle write in their Introduction, ‘What we, the authors, have done is research dozens and dozens of books on the conspiracy, plot , murder and evident cover-up. We then picked five of what we felt were the most informative and interesting of those books and reviewed them in a form […]
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] is impossible to evaluate. This is an extremely complicated episode in an extremely confusing period. The best published account of the period I know is in Political Murder in Northern Ireland (Martin Dillon and Dennis Lehane, Penguin 1973), especially chapter 12. My best estimate is that the UCA was indeed a leftish organisation at […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] assassination researchers have followed this advice. For many it is practically axiomatic that complicity in the cover-up following JFK’s shooting implies complicity in, or knowledge of, the murder conspiracy. From the cover-up the trail can be followed back to the crime. But practically the entire U.S. establishment took part in the cover-up: national and […]