is jfk the gateway drug to conspiracy thinking

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Well, you know, it's funny. Uh JF, the JFK assassination, I like to joke and say it's the gateway drug for conspiracy thinking. Uh right around, you have to keep in mind at the time, uh the 1950s had occurred. And we kind of have to go back to the 1920s. There was something called the first red scare where uh American conservative politicians had a meltdown about communism and started imagining all sorts of terrible things and saying all sorts of ridiculous things. And the John Burch Society was created and and all this. And then in the 1950s you had McCarthyism where people were actually being black ballalled and blacklisted and lost their jobs and their ability to make money uh especially in the in the arts uh simply because you know they knew a guy who espoused semile leftwing or or ideas that McCarthy thought oo communist