[…] 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 […]
[…] Communist regime in Poland in the same year. Or how they treat the Polish Communist government’s killing of the Catholic priest Jerzy Popieluszko in 1984 versus the murder of church people in U.S. client states in Latin America. Or how they treat elections in friendly client states like El Salvador in the 1980s or […]
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
[…] 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 […]
At 00:20 on Sunday 31 August 1997 a black Mercedes S280 carrying four people left the Ritz Hotel in central Paris. Shortly afterwards at 00:25 it crashed into the thirteenth pillar of the Concorde-Boulogne lane of the Pont d’Alma Tunnel in central Paris. The driver – Henri Paul – was killed instantly. The front passenger … Read more
[…] 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’ […]
[…] to have been present with Clay Shaw and the aviator and low-grade CIA agent David Ferrie at a meeting whose main topic of conversation was how to murder the President. Why wasn’t Spiesel checked more thoroughly? What did this fiasco say about the possible quality (or lack of it) of Garrison’s other witnesses? All […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] There’s more. The authors quote File 90486, as follows: ‘The KGB now had some details as to which members of the American right had been behind the murder. In late November a highly regarded Polish intelligence source, an American businessman who owned a series of companies, informed the Poles that three wealthy Texas oil […]
[…] September 1987. Letters to the Editor Sir, I realise that I must temper my language in reference to the recent article by David McKittrick, ‘Doubts over Ulster murder claims’ (Independent 2/9/87). Anger at such an appalling piece is not the way to respond to this totally biased reporting. A close look at the facts […]
