MEETING BUELL WESLEY FRAZIER – Lee Harvey Oswald 1963

MEETING BUELL WESLEY FRAZIER – Lee Harvey Oswald 1963

Meeting Buell Frazier In November 2024 I met Buell Wesley Frazier in Dallas, Texas. Buell was the work colleague who innocently brought Lee Harvey Oswald to their workplace in the TSBD, (Texas School Book Depository), on Friday 22 November 1963, the day JFK was...
ASSASSINATIONS – PRESIDENTS, POLITICIANS AND ACTIVISTS.

ASSASSINATIONS – PRESIDENTS, POLITICIANS AND ACTIVISTS.

If we consider the United States of America, the country has a long history of firearm related homicides, political assassinations and attempts. At the top end four serving Presidents have been assassinated and one seriously wounded. One presidential candidate has...
KILLING THE PRESIDENT – Charles de Gaulle 1962

KILLING THE PRESIDENT – Charles de Gaulle 1962

On the 22 August 1962 a serious attempt was made to assassinate President Charles De Gaulle of France. Much has been written about this particular assassination attempt and a good deal is inaccurate and speculative. My purpose is to outline the physical and technical...
JOHN PALMER – ‘Killing Goldfinger’

JOHN PALMER – ‘Killing Goldfinger’

John Palmer, nicknamed Goldfinger came from very ordinary beginnings. Starting out as a market trader, he had built a very lucrative empire largely from property development before he was murdered in 2015. He had been an influential character during the later 1980’s...
MY RESEARCH, BLOGS & BOOKS

MY RESEARCH, BLOGS & BOOKS

I have been fortunate enough to have books and articles published about the use of firearms in crime and conflict. My latest project is a book called ‘Bullet Path’. This is a close study of over 25 shootings and assassinations which have taken place around...
THE ANNECY MURDERS – 05 Sept 2012

THE ANNECY MURDERS – 05 Sept 2012

We have reached the 13th anniversary of the Annecy shootings, (or the Chevaline killings), in France. These brutal murders occurred on the 5th September 2012. Three members of a British/Iraqi family who were on a caravan holiday and a local French citizen were shot to...
THE ANNECY MURDERS – Revisted October 2019

THE ANNECY MURDERS – Revisted October 2019

THE LACHEMENT ASSASSINE On 14 October 2019, exactly 4 years after my first visit to the Le Martinet murder site I was accompanied by a longstanding friend and professional photographer Chris Powell. The weather was glorious, the sun spreading a comfortable autumn...