The Archbishop was at the centre of a plot. ibid.
Lang hated what he called Edward’s liking for vulgar society ... Lang: ‘That dreadful common American woman’. ibid.
The Archbishop of Canterbury knew more about Mrs Simpson than most. He was at the centre of a well-oiled intelligence-gathering machine. ibid.
The King met Lang to plan the Coronation. And yet again things did not go well. ibid.
Lang: ‘I had a long talk with the prime minister Baldwin’ ... Lang was forcing events to a head. ibid.
The next day after meeting the editor of The Times, Baldwin authorised the delivery of a letter warning the king. ibid.
To Lang’s fury, the popular press sided with the King and turned on him. ibid.
Edward found himself alone against the full force of the old gang. ibid.
Lang’s words backfired ... The vengeful speech had destroyed the Archbishop’s reputation. ibid.
These are the moments when Ethiopia’s kingdom came to an end. In February 1974 the Ethiopian military rose up in revolt … A coup that brought to an end one of the world’s oldest continuous kingdoms. Gus Casely-Hayford, Lost Kingdoms of Africa s1e2: Ethiopia, BBC 2010
This is the Persian Empire known today as Iran. For twenty-five hundred years this land was ruled by a series of kings, known as Shahs. In 1950 the people of Iran elected Mohammad Mosaddegh, the secular democrat, as prime minister ... But in 1953 the US and Great Britain engineered a coup d’etat that deposed Mosaddegh. Argo 2012 starring Alan Arkin & Ben Affleck & Bryan Cranston & John Goodman & Tate Donovan & Clea DuVall & Christopher Denham & Scoot McNairy & Kerry Bishe & Rory Cochran & Victor Garber, director opening commentary
‘We will never give up; we will never conceded; it doesn’t happen.’ Four Hours at the Capitol, Trump to protesters, BBC 2021
‘You’ll never take back our country with weakness, you have to show strength, you have to be strong … If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country any more.’ ibid.
We go over one fencing then we go over the next fencing all the way, bedlam, sheer bedlam. ibid.
Bullets were coming up over our heads from that fence on the knoll. JFK ***** 1991 starring Kevin Costner & Sissy Spacek & Tommy Lee Jones & Kevin Bacon & Laurie Metcalf & Gary Oldman & Michael Rooker & Jack Lemmon & Walter Matthau & Joe Pesci & John Candy et al, director Oliver Stone, male witness
I never saw him before in my life. ibid. David Ferry to Garrison
They’re telling us that Oswald got off three shots with world class precision ... He wasn’t any good. ibid. Senator Long
Lee Oswald was no ordinary soldier. ibid. Garrison
Guess who used this address? Lee Harvey Oswald ... Lee Harvey was trained in the Russian language. ibid.
We are standing in the heart of the United States’ government’s Intelligence community in New Orleans. That’s the FBI there, that’s the CIA, that’s the Secret Service, that’s the O&I – doesn’t this seem to you a rather strange place for a communist to spend his spare time? ibid.
He [Oswald] was there too. He was there. Sometimes meeting with Bannister. ibid. Jack Martin to Garrison
Triangulation of cross-fire – that’s the key. ibid. David Ferry
The guy couldn’t do the shooting. ibid. Lou to Garrison
David Ferry’s dead. ibid.
1963: I spent much of September ’63 working on the Kennedy plan for getting all US personnel out of Vietnam by the end of 1965. ibid. Mr X to Garrison
He could not be allowed to escape alive. ibid.
Why was Kennedy killed? Who benefited? Who has the power to cover it up? ibid.
The organising principle of any society, Mr Garrison, is war. ibid.
The perpetrators must be on the winning side. And never subject to prosecution for anything by anyone. That is a coup d’etat. ibid.
Fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth. ibid.
Is a government worth preserving when it lies to the people? ... Let justice be done though the heavens fall. ibid. Garrison
Somebody gotta try, goddamnit. ibid.
Oswald went to see the FBI two weeks before the assassination. ibid. female deputy
He [Oswald] was under orders. He was a foot-soldier. ibid. Garrison
The Mob wouldn’t have the guts or the power for something of this magnitude ... This was a military style ambush from start to finish; this was a coup d’etat with Lyndon Johnson waiting in the wings. ibid.
Now a single bullet remains; a single bullet now has to account for the remaining seven wounds in Kennedy and Connally ... We’ve come to know it as the Magic Bullet theory. ibid. Garrison to jury
Fifty-one witnesses, gentlemen of the jury, thought they heard shots coming from the grassy knoll. ibid.
Not one of the civilian doctors who examined the president at Parkland Hospital regarded his throat wound as anything but a wound of entry. ibid.
The president’s brain has disappeared. ibid.
It’s going to be a turkey shoot. ibid.
This is the key shot. The president going back and to the left. ibid.
This has to be the most remarkable example of police intuition since the Reichstag fire. ibid.
Lee Harvey Oswald is brought out like a sacrificial lamb. ibid.
Who grieves for Lee Harvey Oswald? ibid.
What kind of national security do we have when we’ve been robbed of our leaders? ibid.
President Kennedy was murdered by a conspiracy that was planned in advance at the highest levels of our government. And it was carried out by fanatical and disciplined cold warriors in the Pentagon and CIA’s covert operation apparatus, among them Clay Shaw here before you. It was a public execution and it was covered up by like-minded individuals in the Dallas police department, the secret service, the FBI and the White House – all the way up to, including J Edgar Hoover and Lyndon Johnson, whom I consider accomplices after the fact. ibid.
The truth often poses a threat to power. ibid.
The truth is the most important value we have. ibid.
Do not forget your dying king. Show this world that this is still a government of the people, for the people and by the people. Nothing as long as you live will ever be more important. It’s up to you. ibid.
In 1979 Richard Helms, Director of Covert Operations in 1963, admitted under oath that Clay Shaw had worked for the CIA. Clay Shaw died in 1974 of lung cancer. ibid.
Ghana: The military coup won enormous popular support. Nkrumah had failed to deliver the modern Ghana he had promised. Adam Curtis, Pandora’s Box V: Black Power, BBC 1992
The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was a triumphant assertion of Britain’s power in the world. But it was held in a city that was still ruined from the bombing ten years before. Britain had been bankrupted by the War. Many of those clustered around the new Queen knew that it could no longer afford to rule the world. Adam Curtis, The Mayfair Set I: Who Pays Wins ***** BBC 1999
Colonel David Sterling, a war hero famous for founding the Special Air Service, the SAS. What Sterling would do was to sell to other countries Britain’s military power: Britain would supply them with modern weapons and with mercenaries who would fight their wars for them. ibid.
Sterling set up his own political party called Capricorn Africa. He proposed an alternative form of power where people like himself would civilise the black majority. It attracted widespread support among the white middle-class settlers. But it was firmly rejected by politicians in London. ibid.
In 1962 John Aspinall opened his own gambling club, the Clermont Club in Mayfair. Stirling was one of its members. The Clermont was deliberately designed to recreate a time when Britain had been rich and powerful. The set that Aspinall gathered around him at the Clermont were like Stirling disaffected right wingers, men who felt themselves out of tune with the consensus politics of the post-war world: they included James Goldsmith, a playboy and ferocious gambler who was to become a close friend of Stirling’s; the tycoon Tiny Roland who Stirling already knew from his time in Africa; Lord Lucan, a descendant of the man who had led the Charge of the Light Brigade; and Jim Slater, a takeover tycoon and asset-stripper who ran the notorious Slater-Walker. What united all these men was a belief in decisive action: it was this they believed that made Britain great not moderate post-war governments. ibid.
Then an event occurred in the Middle East which have Stirling the chance to reassert Britain’s power abroad but in a new different way: in September 1962 Egyptian troops invaded the Yemen. ibid.
They proposed a plan: a group of ex-SAS men would mount an operation to fight the Egyptians but they would do it privately. ibid.
[Prince] Faisal was terrified that Nassar would invade his county next and agreed to the British idea: the Saudis would pay for the war. ibid.
The Saudis agreed to pay for the British mercenaries but also to smuggle weapons into the Yemen. ibid.