Obligatory post concerning the conspiracy theories surrounding a one Cecil Adams.
After all, everyone knows that Cecil is …
whut?
who are you?
that door is locked. how did you get in here …?
Yes I remember a CIA conspiracy theory. They were involved when a prominent South American Dictator commited suicide by shooting himself in the back with an automatic weapon; pausing only once to reload!
You can’t die a normal death anymore without someone getting their hackles up.
I like the “chem trails” theories, and the Denver Airport stuff.
The Propaganda Due story is shocking, especially the links to “Operation Gladio”. Up to the 1990s people were finding secret caches of weapons all over Europe, designed to aid secret underground armies when the Commies come marching in.
And what stuffed in his rectum?
When Harold Holt, the prime minister of Australia, disappeared while swimming in dangerous surf conditions in December 1967, there were suggestions that he’d been abducted by a Soviet or Chinese sub, or by a UFO, or that the CIA had sent frogmen or a robotic shark to kill him. :rolleyes:
Here’s a good page with links. Sites are rated “Cranky,” “Crankier,” “Crankiest,” “Bizarre,” or “Illucid.” Or “Parody.” Some are labelled “Anticrank.”
Oh, right. Here, bend over so I can yell into your ass. 
I’ve been intrigued by the Great American Streetcar Scandal ever since I first heard of it. While such companies as General Motors and Firestone weren’t entirely responsible for the decline of electric trolley systems, they obviously didn’t object to the automobile’s assumption of prominence, and their actions almost certainly hastened the streetcar’s demise.
It don’t get no better than Stephen King shot John Lennon
I’m convinced. I hope the authors book contains the same sort of stunning prose that make up his resume
I was sitting 'bout two rows back from that guy at a lecture King gave in San Francisco once. He was the highlight of the Q&A session.
I checked out this thread just to see if anyone wouuld mention this (I grew up in Pittsburgh where we had numerous trolley lines running all over the city. Only one remains as far as I know.) The rumor I remember from that time is that the St.Louis Car Company was driven out of business by General Motors in order to prevent cities like Pittsburgh from replacing worn out streetcars and forcing the public to rely on auto transportation.
The other conspiracy that noone has mentioned is one that was written about in the back of The People’s Almanac by David Wallechinsky. He invited people to write articles about things that were relatively unknown but nevertheless interesting and someone wrote in describing an internal combustion engine (I think) that ran on water. The engine was supposedly created by an engineer in (I think) McKeesport Pa around the end of WWII. The oil and vehicle companies supposedly conspired to keep it off the market and all evidence of its existence has been lost.
Can anyone clarify the conspiracy surrounding Kennedy’s assassination for me? Wiki doesn’t really say much about it and from the little I have heard about it previously, I think it sounds very interesting.
Which one?
I meant which kennedy, but guess you could also say which theory?
I’m no expert, but clarity and the Kennedy Assassination are, I believe, mutually exclusive concepts.
Seriously, AIUI, the Kennedy Assassination conspiracy advocates are about as uniform as seven layer dip. They all agree something was covered up, and that other people set up Oswald to take the rap, but none of them seem to have any agreement beyond that. So, talking about a single, canonical Kennedy conspiracy is an exercise in futility.
Oh, sorry I meant JFK…I tried to search and read up on it a bit and I found this. Which goes into how Evelyn Lincoln was involved in the whole thing. And I am still confused as to how Lyndon B. Johnson was involved in the assassination.
There are many conspiracy theories about JFK’s assassination, all based on the assumption that Lee Harvey Oswald did not do it alone (in some versions, did not do it at all). Blame is placed variously on the CIA, military officers, the Mafia (see Mob Lawyer, by Frank Ragano), and Fidel Castro – to all of whom motives can plausibly be ascribed.
What’s also really interesting are the strange connections between the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy…things like: Lincoln’s secretary was named Kennedy, Kennedy’s secretary was named Lincoln; and both successors were named Johnson. Probably pure coincidence, nonetheless, the Lincoln assassination is also surrounded in controversy. Or so I’ve been reading.
“Tim Hortons puts nicotine in their coffee to make it addictive!”
A friend of mine claims this is true: that she knew someone who suffered a deadly allergic response one day, and the only thing she’d had was a Timmy’s coffee. And she was allergic to nicotine.
If I actually was masterminding a world-girdling hidden conspiracy, among the first things I’d do is encourage the cranks, in order to discredit the whole idea of world-wide conspiracy…
:smack: ohh crap. I probably made an ass of myself a few months ago.
Somebody asked me if I believed the stuff about DIA and I said I wouldn’t be surprised if it did turn out to be mostly true. I had no idea they were talking about something like that.