NIck on Macintyre

Lobster Issue

[…] in the killing – of the terrorists. Make no mistake, I am not excusing the crime those hostage takers had clearly committed. They had, themselves, committed unconscionable murder. The response from the SAS team can also be described as ferocious. The five terrorists who died were shot an average of 16 times each; and […]

JFK’s assassination: two stories about fingerprints

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] official receipt of DPD’s evidence on November 27. Furthermore, DPD’s supposedly ‘suspicious’ public silence about the fingerprint evidence during the 48 hours between the assassination and Oswald’s murder is easily explained as being caused by the precedence given by Texas state law enforcement to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (a situation that, by coincidence, […]

Dallas again

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a number of people have shown that the photographs were taken between 2.20 and 2.30 pm. The first trio of tramps were arrested before news of the murder of officer J. D. Tippit reached Dallas police HQ at 1.15. See . 22 It didn’t help that his posthumous memoir was mangled by its publisher. […]

The Atlantic and its Enemies: a personal history of the Cold War by Norman Stone

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] War, Stone describes the 1948 death of the Czech politician Jan Masaryk, who was found lying on the pavement beneath the small bathroom window of his flat. Murder? Suicide? Stone offers this explanation of the still unexplained death: ‘Perhaps the affair can be explained by drugs. LSD, which had been discovered in Switzerland at […]

NIck on Macintyre

Lobster Issue

[…] in the killing – of the terrorists. Make no mistake, I am not excusing the crime those hostage takers had clearly committed. They had, themselves, committed unconscionable murder. The response from the SAS team can also be described as ferocious. The five terrorists who died were shot an average of 16 times each; and […]

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