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SOURCE: The Daily Beast
10/8/19
The Deep State Conspiracy Is About to Go Into Overdrive
by Ronald Radosh
The American right has advanced nutty conspiracy theories for decades. But the one we’re about to see play out will make Joe McCarthy look like an amateur.
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SOURCE: CNN
6-16-18
Trump uses IG report to spread 'deep state' conspiracy
by Julian Zelizer
Trump has done more than anyone else to bring the fringe conspiracy concept of a "deep state" into the mainstream, with the help of his son Donald Jr.
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SOURCE: The Daily Beast
The Untold Miracle of Lincoln’s Last Day on Earth
by Michael Daly
One hundred fifty years ago to the day, the president welcomed a hungry, desperate soldier’s wife into the White House. Seven hours later, he would be assassinated.
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SOURCE: NYT
4-13-15
For a Biography of John Wilkes Booth, Terry Alford Turns to Amateur Researchers
Mr. Alford’s book, published by Oxford University Press, is already being hailed as an important contribution, with the Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer praising it as “so deeply researched and persuasively argued that it should stand as the standard portrait for years.”
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4-14-15
Lincoln’s Assassination – and Caesar’s
by Barry Strauss
Both Lincoln and his assassin misread the lessons of history.
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SOURCE: Salon
11-3-14
America’s conspiracy mania: Why Ebola and 9/11 truthers reflect a tortured history
by Jonathan Zimmerman
From 9/11 to McCarthyism, we have a long history of conspiracy theories -- and government acts have encouraged them.
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SOURCE: Rasmussen Reports
7-21-14
Have We Got A Conspiracy for You - 9/11? JFK? Obama's Citizenship?
On a list of some of the world’s best-known conspiracy theories, Americans are most likely to believe the one about JFK‘s assassination.
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