50% of Americans believe in more than one conspiracy theories to explain mysterious events. A conspiracy theory is an explanation of an event or situation that creates an unjustifiable conspiracy, usually involving an illegal or harmful act done by the government or other powerful act. Conspiracy theories are a widely believed public phenomenon, that provides an explanation for an event that needs an explanation or a better one than it already has to explain why it happened. Many people on YouTube create videos surrounding the crazy conspiracies, this allows people to learn more information about conspiracy theories and which ones currently exist. Conspiracy theories often create a hypothesis that contradicts the understanding of history or
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Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, supposedly by Lee Harvey Oswald. First off, in the Zapruder film and pictures taken on the event, one lone man is holding an open umbrella as the car passes even though it wasn’t raining outside. As the car passes the umbrella man, Kennedy is struck by the first bullet and it’s also speculated that the umbrella man could have been a signal for a second shooter since when the car passes he lifts the umbrella up a few inches. Many speculate that the umbrella was some sort of weapon that fired darts, but the owner, Louie Steven Witt begs to differ. Louie Steven testified and explained, “the umbrella was a symbol of protest against JFK’s father, Joseph Kennedy. He opened the umbrella when he thought JFK could see it. The umbrella blocked his view of Kennedy being assassinated causing him to not to panic and run away like everyone else.” I don’t necessarily believe this story since it sounds strange because he would of at least heard the gunshots go off. Also a department of defense weapons developer, Charles Senseney claimed to have built the weapon himself that would fire off darts when opened. He claims, “a form of this weapon exists since he designed it.” This would explain why the umbrella was open both before and after Kennedy was …show more content…
Johnson (LBJ) had him assassinated. LBJ wanted political power and gain, he was also bored and emasculated of being vice president. There was a rumor going around at the time that LBJ was going to be dropped from the election ballot the next year, LBJ also had an angering talk with JFK the day before the assassination and he played a big part in JFK going to Texas in the first place since LBJ had no political control over it. A woman named ___ claimed to have heard him say some terrible things about Kennedy but this was later was proven to be false. She claimed to have heard him say, “After tomorrow those Kennedy’s will never threaten me again. That’s no threat. That’s a promise.” Secondly, the Russians we believed to be behind the assassination since there was tension between the United States and Russia and if people found out that Russia assassinated a president, it could start an instant war. A hypothesis can be created by conspiracy theories that contradict how history or simple facts are understood. Bombs and missiles were involved in the terrible events of 9/11. The Mandela Effect gives an explanation for why people remember something but looking back it never happen. JFK’s assassination has many conspiracy theories surrounding it, from the umbrella man to the Russians assassinating John F. Kennedy. Even though conspiracy theories provide a believable hypothesis, not everyone believes them to be true. Conspiracy
Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, supposedly by Lee Harvey Oswald. First off, in the Zapruder film and pictures taken on the event, one lone man is holding an open umbrella as the car passes even though it wasn’t raining outside. As the car passes the umbrella man, Kennedy is struck by the first bullet and it’s also speculated that the umbrella man could have been a signal for a second shooter since when the car passes he lifts the umbrella up a few inches. Many speculate that the umbrella was some sort of weapon that fired darts, but the owner, Louie Steven Witt begs to differ. Louie Steven testified and explained, “the umbrella was a symbol of protest against JFK’s father, Joseph Kennedy. He opened the umbrella when he thought JFK could see it. The umbrella blocked his view of Kennedy being assassinated causing him to not to panic and run away like everyone else.” I don’t necessarily believe this story since it sounds strange because he would of at least heard the gunshots go off. Also a department of defense weapons developer, Charles Senseney claimed to have built the weapon himself that would fire off darts when opened. He claims, “a form of this weapon exists since he designed it.” This would explain why the umbrella was open both before and after Kennedy was …show more content…
Johnson (LBJ) had him assassinated. LBJ wanted political power and gain, he was also bored and emasculated of being vice president. There was a rumor going around at the time that LBJ was going to be dropped from the election ballot the next year, LBJ also had an angering talk with JFK the day before the assassination and he played a big part in JFK going to Texas in the first place since LBJ had no political control over it. A woman named ___ claimed to have heard him say some terrible things about Kennedy but this was later was proven to be false. She claimed to have heard him say, “After tomorrow those Kennedy’s will never threaten me again. That’s no threat. That’s a promise.” Secondly, the Russians we believed to be behind the assassination since there was tension between the United States and Russia and if people found out that Russia assassinated a president, it could start an instant war. A hypothesis can be created by conspiracy theories that contradict how history or simple facts are understood. Bombs and missiles were involved in the terrible events of 9/11. The Mandela Effect gives an explanation for why people remember something but looking back it never happen. JFK’s assassination has many conspiracy theories surrounding it, from the umbrella man to the Russians assassinating John F. Kennedy. Even though conspiracy theories provide a believable hypothesis, not everyone believes them to be true. Conspiracy