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Philip Shenon, a former Washington and foreign correspondent for the New York Times, is the author of A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination. Larry J. Sabato is the director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of The Kennedy Half-Century. …
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World Trade Center 7 stands amid the rubble of the recently collapsed Twin Towers. (Photograph by New York Office of Emergency Management)The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released its long-awaited report on the collapse of World Trade 7 following the attacks of Sept. …
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By Larry J. Sabato and Philip Shenon, Larry J. Sabato is director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of “The Kennedy Half-Century.” Philip Shenon, a former Washington correspondent for the New York Times, is the author of “A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of …
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Forty years ago, a Freedom of Information request revealed the terrifying scope of Project MKUltra, a CIA programme which used human subjects to experiment with mind control for more than ten years.Although the majority of documentation relating to the project had been destroyed by 1977, enough …
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President Trump has previously dabbled in conspiracy theories, like the idea that vaccines cause autism or the Chinese created global warming, which made him the preferred candidate of voters who subscribed to these fringe theories during the campaign. One bloc — chemtrail theorists, who believe …
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John Frankenheimer’s classic The Manchurian Candidate built upon the idea of brainwashed GIs in Korea. Still from The Manchurian Candidate Journalist Edward Hunter was the first to sound the alarm. “Brain-washing Tactics Force Chinese Into Ranks of Communist Party,” blared his headline in the Miami …
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Philip Shenon, a former Washington and foreign correspondent for the New York Times, is author of, mostly recently, A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination. She may have been one of the bravest and best-placed American spies in the history of the Cold War, but few …
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Here are some of the wildest perennial space myths that just won’t go die. Credit: NASA/Getty On the internet, you need to be a skeptical reader these days. Claims of aliens and UFOs, Mars being abnormally big, or the moon turning green are the kinds of things you should check out carefully. Here …
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Updated: Nov 28, 2018 Original: May 1, 2017 The National Archives may begin releasing the classified documents within weeks—unless President Trump intervenes. Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy during a 1960 campaign stop. (Credit: Paul Schutzer/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) Under the JFK …
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Philip Shenon, a former Washington and foreign correspondent for the New York Times, is author, most recently, of A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination. This essay is drawn from the afterword to the new paperback edition of the book, scheduled for publication by …
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