JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

Lobster Issue

[…] had been shot in Oak Cliff’.8 So: both the Dallas officers photographed escorting the ‘tramps’ said in 1977 that they had done so before news of the murder of Tippit reached Dallas police HQ at 1.15 pm.9 But the photographs of the ‘tramps’ being marched through the centre of Dallas show very long shadows […]

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. […]

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 […]

View from 92 copy

Lobster Issue

[…] Oswald after his return from the Soviet Union.14 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 […]

And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Hayward denied any knowledge of this and was later awarded £50,000 in libel damages after the Sunday Telegraph accused him of being the ‘paymaster’ in the alleged murder conspiracy.28 After Thorpe was replaced by David Steel in 1976 (and particularly once the Lib-Lab pact was in force), Hayward divorced himself completely from any involvement […]

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 […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] – reminding potential readers that there was still much to enjoy in the rural US, such as vinyl record stores 12 Thorpe was cleared of conspiracy to murder a former homosexual lover. No charges for this offence were ever brought against any third party. and welcome revival of Southern food.13 Yes: but does this […]

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