Brad Meltzer, is a prolific fiction writer with a new book called "History Decoded," a book on famous mysteries, each section with a goofy pocket with copies of your own personal evidence. He has been on a book tour, of course, and had some interesting things to say about conspiracy theories, using the Kennedy assassination as an example.
He feels that the conspiracies changed with the times. During the '60's, with the background of the Cold War, Bay of Pigs and the Cuban missile crisis the suspects were the communists, Russian and Cuban. During the '70's and the Watergate period the villains were the government itself. In the '80's the Godfather and the Mafia dominated the news and the assassination conspiracies. The conspirators always mirrored the social villain du jour, the feared group of the time.
It is an interesting thesis. If true, expect a closer look into the Bobby Kennedy killing.
He feels that the conspiracies changed with the times. During the '60's, with the background of the Cold War, Bay of Pigs and the Cuban missile crisis the suspects were the communists, Russian and Cuban. During the '70's and the Watergate period the villains were the government itself. In the '80's the Godfather and the Mafia dominated the news and the assassination conspiracies. The conspirators always mirrored the social villain du jour, the feared group of the time.
It is an interesting thesis. If true, expect a closer look into the Bobby Kennedy killing.
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