JFK – a quarter of a century of myth
The Scotsman and the New Zealand Dominion November 1988 When Jack Kennedy won the Presidential election in November 1960, he barely scraped home – less than 50% of Americans supported him. But three...
View ArticleDisney, Dickens and Drivel Burgers
The Scotsman and the New Zealand Dominion November 28 1988 This may not matter, but last week Walt Disney’s empire splashed its latest cartoon film across American cinema screens. It is the apparently...
View ArticleThe CIA – a low intelligence agency
The Scotsman and the New Zealand Dominion December 5 1988 Exactly eight years ago, President Elect Ronald Reagan huddled with his advisers in a little house in Jackson Place just across the road from...
View ArticleAnd some seed fell on stoned ground
The Scotsman and the New Zealand Dominion December 12 1988 In Chouteau County, Montana, up by the Canadian border, life can be pretty hard. This is grain farming country. Farmers have to fight their...
View ArticleThe women who step out of line
The Scotsman and the New Zealand Dominion December 19 1988 The courtroom in Washington DC was tense and quiet. On his bench, Judge Herbert B Dixon was stoney-faced. All eyes were on the witness box,...
View ArticleDecline and fall of the American empire
The Scotsman and the New Zealand Dominion January 2 1989 There are these three businessman – according to a joke that is currently working its way round Washington – one French, one Japanese and one...
View ArticleReturn of the King
Mail on Sunday magazine January 1989. It was a sleepy Sunday in Kalamazoo. Louise Welling and her grandson had been to church and had just popped into the grocery store to buy a few things for lunch,...
View ArticleSearching for justice
Mail on Sunday magazine February 1989 Grundy is a small colourless town in the bleak backwoods of Virginia down by the border with Tennessee, a poor town where most of the men have “black lung” from...
View ArticlePlastic people
Mail on Sunday magazine March 1989 This is the story of an American romance, of a man and a woman alone in this crazy world with only their dreams and a standard set of surgical tools to inspire them,...
View ArticleThe town that loved lynching
The Scotsman April 1989 The old sheriff of Montgomery County, Ben Hicks, had an answer for everything. A black man had just been burned alive in front of his office in the courthouse square in the...
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