Martin Fitzgerald
@4hundredblows.bsky.social
Author of Ruth and Martin’s Album Club. Screenwriter - Campbeltown ‘69 (in pre-production)
Currently writing The Umbrella Man and Other Stories
Managing Editor @NottinghamJournal.bsky.social
Currently writing The Umbrella Man and Other Stories
Managing Editor @NottinghamJournal.bsky.social
Pinned
Finished! 81,200 words, 21 chapters, one trip to Dallas and another to Leamington Spa. It will be out in Spring and, if you were wondering, the font on this title page is called Oswald.
My partner has recreated the Oswald backyard photo but it looks more like that Black Sabbath album cover
November 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
My partner has recreated the Oswald backyard photo but it looks more like that Black Sabbath album cover
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The Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff, Dallas. Today they’re showing the same double bill they showed on 22-11-63, when Oswald was arrested here
November 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff, Dallas. Today they’re showing the same double bill they showed on 22-11-63, when Oswald was arrested here
With Miriam Linna - the original drummer in The Cramps, who is about to do a talk on Jack Ruby
November 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
With Miriam Linna - the original drummer in The Cramps, who is about to do a talk on Jack Ruby
The Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff, Dallas. Today they’re showing the same double bill they showed on 22-11-63, when Oswald was arrested here
November 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff, Dallas. Today they’re showing the same double bill they showed on 22-11-63, when Oswald was arrested here
Hi, I’m a JFK assassination conspiracy theorist
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Hi, I’m a JFK assassination conspiracy theorist
There are more people in Elm Street today than when Kennedy came to town
November 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
There are more people in Elm Street today than when Kennedy came to town
62 years ago today, a man left a building on this site at midday. He walked south on to Main Street, and headed through the crowds to Dealey Plaza. It was a clear, warm day, yet in his hand he carried an umbrella. That act inspired my next book.
The Umbrella Man and Other Stories - out in April
The Umbrella Man and Other Stories - out in April
November 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
62 years ago today, a man left a building on this site at midday. He walked south on to Main Street, and headed through the crowds to Dealey Plaza. It was a clear, warm day, yet in his hand he carried an umbrella. That act inspired my next book.
The Umbrella Man and Other Stories - out in April
The Umbrella Man and Other Stories - out in April
This was such a great show last night and, as always with Dallas, can we just take a moment to admire the awning
November 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This was such a great show last night and, as always with Dallas, can we just take a moment to admire the awning
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Hanging out at Mary Moorman’s. On her wall is her famous photo of the assassination - the only one to show the grassy knoll at the time of the shooting. She’s 93 now and sharp as a tack.
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Hanging out at Mary Moorman’s. On her wall is her famous photo of the assassination - the only one to show the grassy knoll at the time of the shooting. She’s 93 now and sharp as a tack.
“Hand me the keys etc etc”
The room where Oswald was identified in a line-up.
The room where Oswald was identified in a line-up.
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“Hand me the keys etc etc”
The room where Oswald was identified in a line-up.
The room where Oswald was identified in a line-up.
Hanging out at Mary Moorman’s. On her wall is her famous photo of the assassination - the only one to show the grassy knoll at the time of the shooting. She’s 93 now and sharp as a tack.
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Hanging out at Mary Moorman’s. On her wall is her famous photo of the assassination - the only one to show the grassy knoll at the time of the shooting. She’s 93 now and sharp as a tack.
A group of students from the University of North Texas, having lunch in the former office of Captain Will Fritz. It was in this room that Lee Harvey Oswald was interrogated for two days
November 21, 2025 at 10:57 AM
A group of students from the University of North Texas, having lunch in the former office of Captain Will Fritz. It was in this room that Lee Harvey Oswald was interrogated for two days
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I used to have a friend who was cricket mad. His partner said to him "sometimes I think that you love cricket more than me" and he replied "T20 or test?"
November 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I used to have a friend who was cricket mad. His partner said to him "sometimes I think that you love cricket more than me" and he replied "T20 or test?"
In Lee Harvey Oswald’s jail cell
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
In Lee Harvey Oswald’s jail cell
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“But I have to enable Holocaust denialism because my favorite sports reporters are there”
I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
November 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
“But I have to enable Holocaust denialism because my favorite sports reporters are there”
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The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30
uncpress.org/978146969484...
uncpress.org/978146969484...
White Power
Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued...
uncpress.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30
uncpress.org/978146969484...
uncpress.org/978146969484...
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JFK in Fort Worth on the morning of the 22nd of November 1963
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
JFK in Fort Worth on the morning of the 22nd of November 1963
JFK in Fort Worth on the morning of the 22nd of November 1963
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
JFK in Fort Worth on the morning of the 22nd of November 1963
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A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, support the podcast, “don’t gob at me”.
This week: Buzzcocks, Everybody’s Happy Nowadays/Why Can’t I Touch It?
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This week: Buzzcocks, Everybody’s Happy Nowadays/Why Can’t I Touch It?
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November 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM
A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, support the podcast, “don’t gob at me”.
This week: Buzzcocks, Everybody’s Happy Nowadays/Why Can’t I Touch It?
www.patreon.com/backlisted
This week: Buzzcocks, Everybody’s Happy Nowadays/Why Can’t I Touch It?
www.patreon.com/backlisted
My friend Scott from Glasgow. We watched the last 20 minutes of the game on my phone as we arrived in Dallas and, though he doesn’t look it, he was so happy. Always nice to share those moments with people.
November 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
My friend Scott from Glasgow. We watched the last 20 minutes of the game on my phone as we arrived in Dallas and, though he doesn’t look it, he was so happy. Always nice to share those moments with people.
Met a woman in Dallas last night who told me Elvis is still alive and he’s called Bob Joyce these days. Only 9 days to go.
November 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Met a woman in Dallas last night who told me Elvis is still alive and he’s called Bob Joyce these days. Only 9 days to go.
Where I’m calling from
November 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Where I’m calling from
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It's Christmas soon...
www.polarispublishing.com/author/john-...
www.polarispublishing.com/author/john-...
November 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
It's Christmas soon...
www.polarispublishing.com/author/john-...
www.polarispublishing.com/author/john-...
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Listening to great BBC podcast Anatomy of a Cancellation, about the Kate Clanchy story. The book's terminology is certainly gasp-inducing, but christ alive the main takeaway for me was how obnoxious and awful Twitter was as a forum for righteous public execution and we're far better off without it.
November 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Listening to great BBC podcast Anatomy of a Cancellation, about the Kate Clanchy story. The book's terminology is certainly gasp-inducing, but christ alive the main takeaway for me was how obnoxious and awful Twitter was as a forum for righteous public execution and we're far better off without it.
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Mate just ordered a couple of pints of Guinness in Madrid.
November 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Mate just ordered a couple of pints of Guinness in Madrid.