By Susan Bruce
Who doesn’t love a good conspiracy theory? U.S. history is full of them. I was brought up with one of the most enduring of all. I was in second grade when JFK was assassinated. Was it the mafia, Fidel, the CIA, the KGB, J. Edgar Hoover or the Federal Reserve who ordered the hit? There are also those who believe the moon landing was faked, as was the Holocaust, that there are extraterrestrials on an Air Force base in Nevada, that the Clintons had a hit list and murdered numerous people, and that the U.S. government committed the terrorist acts against itself on 9/11. That’s just a sampling — there are so many more.
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