Conspiracy Theories from JFK to 9/11
Over the last half-century, the phrase “conspiracy theory” has become a regular term of abuse directed against those who challenge the establishment narrative on major world events, with the JFK assassination and the 9/11 attacks being two of the most prominent examples.
Declassified government documents eventually revealed that this pejorative accusation may have originated with the CIA. By the mid-1960s, many Americans had grown skeptical of the official story that JFK was killed by a lone gunman and began to suspect that the CIA might have been involved. So the intelligence agency encouraged its media assets to ridicule such notions as “conspiracy theories” and the term became widespread.
The creation of the Internet in the 1990s suddenly allowed the easy distribution of unsanctioned narratives, and a massive new wave of conspiratorial theories blossomed in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001.
I have investigated many of these important historical events, often coming to controversial conclusions. These articles are all found in my lengthy American Pravda collection, but the more substantial ones are also available as stand-alone eBooks.
Articles in the Series
American Pravda: Was Rambo Right?
The American Conservative • May 25, 2010 • 1,300 Words • 9m ▶
Our American Pravda
The American Conservative • April 29, 2013 • 4,500 Words • 33m ▶
John McCain: When “Tokyo Rose” Ran for President
The Unz Review • March 9, 2015 • 4,200 Words • 31m ▶
American Pravda: The Legacy of Sydney Schanberg
The Unz Review • July 13, 2016 • 3,500 Words • 23m ▶
American Pravda: Relying Upon Maoist Professors of Cultural Studies
The Unz Review • July 18, 2016 • 1,900 Words • 14m ▶
American Pravda: Will There be a Spotlight Sequel to The Killing Fields?
The Unz Review • July 25, 2016 • 2,700 Words • 18m ▶
American Pravda: Was General Patton Assassinated?
The Unz Review • August 22, 2016 • 2,400 Words • 16m ▶
American Pravda: Alexander Cockburn and the British Spies
The Unz Review • August 29, 2016 • 2,700 Words • 20m ▶
American Pravda: How the CIA Invented “Conspiracy Theories”
The Unz Review • September 5, 2016 • 2,600 Words • 19m ▶
American Pravda: The Destruction of TWA Flight 800
The Unz Review • September 26, 2016 • 2,800 Words • 20m ▶
American Pravda: Breaching the Media Barrier
The Unz Review • October 24, 2016 • 2,500 Words • 19m ▶
American Pravda: The JFK Assassination, Part I – What Happened?
The Unz Review • June 18, 2018 • 4,800 Words • 35m ▶
American Pravda: The JFK Assassination, Part II – Who Did It?
The Unz Review • June 25, 2018 • 8,000 Words • 57m ▶
American Pravda: Our Deadly World of Post-War Politics
The Unz Review • July 2, 2018 • 5,700 Words • 43m ▶
American Pravda: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
The Unz Review • September 10, 2018 • 11,000 Words • 1h19m ▶
American Pravda: The ADL in American Society
The Unz Review • October 15, 2018 • 7,300 Words • 51m ▶
American Pravda: Amazon Book Censorship
The Unz Review • March 11, 2019 • 7,600 Words • 55m ▶
American Pravda: The Power of Organized Crime
The Unz Review • July 15, 2019 • 13,000 Words • 1h37m ▶
American Pravda: John McCain, Jeffrey Epstein, and Pizzagate
The Unz Review • July 29, 2019 • 6,400 Words • 46m ▶
American Pravda: Mossad Assassinations
The Unz Review • January 27, 2020 • 27,300 Words • 3h25m ▶
Audio Segments: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
American Pravda: Our Coronavirus Catastrophe as Biowarfare Blowback?
The Unz Review • April 21, 2020 • 7,400 Words • 55m ▶
American Pravda: Our Disputed Election
The Unz Review • January 14, 2021 • 2,000 Words • 15m ▶
American Pravda: Seeking 9/11 Truth After Twenty Years
The Unz Review • September 7, 2021 • 7,800 Words • 56m ▶
American Pravda: Remembering the Liberty
The Unz Review • October 18, 2021 • 11,400 Words • 1h24m ▶
American Pravda: Giants Silenced by Pygmies
The Unz Review • November 22, 2021 • 12,200 Words • 1h31m ▶
American Pravda: Anne Frank, Sirhan Sirhan, and AIDS
The Unz Review • January 31, 2022 • 3,600 Words • 26m ▶
American Pravda: Alex Jones, Cass Sunstein, and “Cognitive Infiltration”
The Unz Review • August 8, 2022 • 5,400 Words • 41m ▶
American Pravda: An Authorized Political History of the 1960s and 1970s
The Unz Review • December 5, 2022 • 10,000 Words • 1h14m ▶
American Pravda: Major Mysteries of the 1990s
The Unz Review • December 12, 2022 • 8,800 Words • 1h4m ▶
American Pravda: The JFK Assassination and the Covid Cover-Up
The Unz Review • December 19, 2022 • 6,900 Words • 51m ▶
Filling the Blank Spots in Our National History
The Unz Review • March 20, 2023 • 3,500 Words • 23m ▶
Did a Russian Missile Strike Kill 200 NATO Officers in a Ukrainian Bunker?
The Unz Review • May 8, 2023 • 3,200 Words • 23m ▶
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the Great Unmentionables
The Unz Review • July 24, 2023 • 4,100 Words • 32m ▶
RFK Jr. vs. I.F. Stone on the Kennedy Assassinations
The Unz Review • July 31, 2023 • 5,100 Words • 39m ▶
American Pravda: Remembering the 9/11 Truth Movement
The Unz Review • September 11, 2023 • 9,800 Words • 1h13m ▶
Elon Musk and the True History of the ADL
The Unz Review • September 13, 2023 • 6,900 Words • 52m ▶
American Pravda: Mutually-Assured Political Destruction
The Unz Review • September 18, 2023 • 7,700 Words • 59m ▶
American Pravda: The Forgotten Anthrax Attacks
The Unz Review • October 17, 2023 • 10,100 Words • 1h19m ▶
The Balfour Declaration and 116,000 American Lives
The Unz Review • November 20, 2023 • 4,800 Words • 39m ▶
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs and the JFK Assassination
The Unz Review • March 18, 2024 • 6,200 Words • 46m ▶
American Pravda: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in San Bernardino
The Unz Review • May 20, 2024 • 5,900 Words • 45m ▶
American Pravda: JFK, LBJ, and Our Great National Shame
The Unz Review • June 24, 2024 • 10,200 Words • 1h15m ▶
American Pravda: JFK, Richard Nixon, the CIA, and Watergate
The Unz Review • July 9, 2024 • 16,700 Words • 2h7m ▶
The Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump
The Unz Review • July 17, 2024 • 2,000 Words • 15m ▶
Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, and the Tottering American Empire
The Unz Review • July 29, 2024 • 4,400 Words • 34m ▶
American Pravda: YouTube Censorship and the Curious Case of Candace Owens
The Unz Review • August 26, 2024 • 6,700 Words • 51m ▶
The Controversy Over “Mr. Brigitte Macron” and “Mr. Michelle Obama”
The Unz Review • September 2, 2024 • 4,400 Words • 34m ▶
American Pravda: October 7th and September 11th
The Unz Review • September 9, 2024 • 11,200 Words • 1h25m ▶
Mossad’s Exploding Pager Attacks and 9/11
The Unz Review • September 23, 2024 • 5,600 Words • 44m ▶
Israel and International Terrorism During the Month of September
The Unz Review • September 30, 2024 • 7,700 Words • 59m ▶
The Anniversary of October 7th
The Unz Review • October 7, 2024 • 6,400 Words • 50m ▶
American Pravda: Michael Collins Piper, Miles Mathis, and Proving Pi=4
The Unz Review • October 14, 2024 • 11,600 Words • 1h29m ▶
American Pravda: UFOs, Alien Abductions, and Other Strange Things
The Unz Review • December 30, 2024 • 8,800 Words • 1h5m ▶
American Pravda: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
The Unz Review • January 20, 2025 • 12,800 Words • 1h39m ▶
American Pravda: Political Conspiracies and the French Revolution
The Unz Review • March 3, 2025 • 7,000 Words • 54m ▶
2023 Iranian TV Channel 4 Broadcast Interviews
The JFK Assassination, Part I • 25m
The JFK Assassination, Part II • 31m
9/11 Conspiracies, Part I • 25m
9/11 Conspiracies, Part II • 35m
Podcast Interviews
Truth Jihad • “Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, and the Tottering American Empire” • August 2, 2024 • 53m
Michael Rectenwald Podcast • American Pravda • July 31, 2023 • 1hr 44m
Kevin Barrett • Alex Jones, Cass Sunstein, “Cognitive Infiltration” • August 14, 2022 • 56m
Kevin Barrett • USS Liberty • October 27, 2021 • 56m
Kevin Barrett • Truth Movement • December 14, 2019 • 1hr 8m
Kevin Barrett • JFK Assassination • July 1, 2018 • 1hr 10m
Print Edition
Collected Conspiracy Theory articles from the American Pravda series, 462pp, $19.99
To the Memory of Michael Collins Piper,
Who Pinned the Tail on the Donkey Almost Thirty Years Ago
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