[…] being made extensively here in Britain, in republican circles and on Irish radio and television. A particularly horrifying incident that many hon. Members will remember was the murder of three members of the Miami showband – completely innocent musicians with no political affiliations whatsoever. It took place in the midst of the cease-fire that […]
[…] these charges. However, in the words of Griffin, ‘since it was not required at this stage…. he did not have it to hand’.(6) In the document Attempted Murder (AM hereafter), discussed below, Griffin justified this lack of evidence by reference to the Constitution then in force. However, those who disagreed felt that he had […]
[…] the exercise was to threaten and frighten .’ Cameron compares bullish Dibley with cocky Challenor, the most notorious policeman of the 1960s, who in 1990 bragged of murder threats he had made.(1) Dibley partly justified Century’s terror tactics by referring to a previous covert police operation, Edzell. An undercover WPC tried to seduce confessions […]
[…] of a volume spewing venom in the direction of anyone who disagrees with its author. Morrow, Robert D. First Hand Knowledge: How I Participated in the CIA-Mafia Murder of President Kennedy. New York: SPI Books Shapolsky Publishers, 1992. xvii and 384 pps. Illustrated, index. I’ve never been able to take Morrow’s two previous books […]
[…] that the international obsession with the assassination of John F. Kennedy was a good example of unhealthy interest in conspiracies. Now while the actual circumstances of the murder may be difficult to determine we can ascertain that the President had enemies in the CIA and in the Mafia. (90) This does not mean that […]
[…] half years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, news reports emanating from New Orleans claimed that the local district attorney, Jim Garrison, was investigating the President’s murder. Within a week Garrison was holding a press conference and claiming that he had ‘positively solved the assassination of John F. Kennedy’. On the day the […]
[…] years but this takes the biscuit. A sense of this is conveyed by what must be one of the longest subtitles in publishing history: ‘How the unsolved murder of a doctor, a secret laboratory in New Orleans and cancer-causing monkey viruses are linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK assass-ination and emerging global epidemics’ […]
[…] apparently afoot to film Jon King and John Beveridge’s book, Princess Diana: the hidden evidence (New York: SPI Books, 2002). Richard Palmer, ‘Film tells of Diana “ murder”‘, The Express, 11 February 2006. For an idea of what to expect see the review in Lobster 43. An unofficial transcript of the interview can be […]
[…] the Kennedys. Edinburgh (U.K.): Mainstream Publishing, 1993. 288 pp. Illustrated, indexes. Smith’s modest thesis is that the conspirators responsible for JFK’s assassination were also behind Marilyn Monroe’s murder (sic), Bobby’s slaying, and Ted Kennedy’s spot of bother on Chappaquiddick Island. Monroe’s death, it was hoped, would being into the open the brothers’ involvement with […]
I invited David Turner to begin writing a regular column for Lobster. He agreed then rang to tell me his computer had been attacked by a virus and could not meet my deadline. (He is the second contributor to this issue to have been virused recently.) But I had on file this splendid polemic written … Read more
