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Read an interesting article on a humor site and wanted to share it. 5 Details That Make Famous Conspiracy Theories Seem Legit
Pretty interesting stuff. Not entirely certain how solid the research is (although there are links to sites where you can delve in at your leisure), or what the spin on the points is, but on the surface it kind of does what the title says.
For example, the first point "MLK's Family Sued The Federal Government For Conspiracy To Commit Murder (And Won)".
they bring up the point that a few years prior, Ron Goldman sued OJ for the same thing and won... everyone and their mothers knows about that case, and just a guess, most everyone in the general public pretty much thinks the verdict was the right call.
Merits of the MLK case aside, and opinions aside, it is very odd that the case flew under the radar like it did.
Another example- "The Man Who "Proved" Lee Harvey Oswald Could've Acted Alone Spent The Next 25 Years Proving He Didn't".
Gonna selectively cut and paste here- ....A lot of theories about what really happened have surfaced in the years since, but what most of them have in common is their insistence that Lee Harvey Oswald could not possibly have acted alone. If nothing else, given the type of weapon he was using, there's no way he could've gotten off three shots in the 5.6 second window of time he had to work with....
In the name of proving or disproving this, CBS set up an experiment in 1967 wherein several sharpshooters and ballistics experts attempted to recreate the shooting under conditions similar to those on that day in Dallas. And guess what? Someone was able to do it! That man was Howard Donahue, one of 11 participants, and he was only able to do it after three tries. Despite his success, the experience left him convinced that there was no way Oswald could have fired all three shots.
With that, he set about conducting an investigation of his own that eventually produced one of the most compelling theories yet: The shot that hit Kennedy in the head wasn't fired by Oswald, but instead was an accidental shot fired from a secret service vehicle two cars back. Specifically, the shot came from the rifle seen in this photo....
The list of conspiracy theories about JFK is astoundingly long, but the "accident" theory which makes perfect sense is just too random and unsatisfying for people to even mention.
Read an interesting article on a humor site and wanted to share it. 5 Details That Make Famous Conspiracy Theories Seem Legit
Pretty interesting stuff. Not entirely certain how solid the research is (although there are links to sites where you can delve in at your leisure), or what the spin on the points is, but on the surface it kind of does what the title says.
For example, the first point "MLK's Family Sued The Federal Government For Conspiracy To Commit Murder (And Won)".
they bring up the point that a few years prior, Ron Goldman sued OJ for the same thing and won... everyone and their mothers knows about that case, and just a guess, most everyone in the general public pretty much thinks the verdict was the right call.
Merits of the MLK case aside, and opinions aside, it is very odd that the case flew under the radar like it did.
Another example- "The Man Who "Proved" Lee Harvey Oswald Could've Acted Alone Spent The Next 25 Years Proving He Didn't".
Gonna selectively cut and paste here- ....A lot of theories about what really happened have surfaced in the years since, but what most of them have in common is their insistence that Lee Harvey Oswald could not possibly have acted alone. If nothing else, given the type of weapon he was using, there's no way he could've gotten off three shots in the 5.6 second window of time he had to work with....
In the name of proving or disproving this, CBS set up an experiment in 1967 wherein several sharpshooters and ballistics experts attempted to recreate the shooting under conditions similar to those on that day in Dallas. And guess what? Someone was able to do it! That man was Howard Donahue, one of 11 participants, and he was only able to do it after three tries. Despite his success, the experience left him convinced that there was no way Oswald could have fired all three shots.
With that, he set about conducting an investigation of his own that eventually produced one of the most compelling theories yet: The shot that hit Kennedy in the head wasn't fired by Oswald, but instead was an accidental shot fired from a secret service vehicle two cars back. Specifically, the shot came from the rifle seen in this photo....
The list of conspiracy theories about JFK is astoundingly long, but the "accident" theory which makes perfect sense is just too random and unsatisfying for people to even mention.
