Originally posted by PDXterra:
You forgot one though:
Pearl Harbor was intentional, we gave the Japanese our position, told them when to attack, where the ships were, etc. I always get a good laugh out of that one.
Yeah... There are a whole lot more of them. The ones I mentioned seem to be among the whackiest.
Assassinations are also ripe territory for the conspiracy theory prone mindset.
-Martin Luther King was killed by the government
-JFK - that one has many twists and variations
Can't forget the one about the Federal Reserve System.
Every country seems to also have various conspiracy theories in their popular cultures, but for some reason Americans seem to be more prone to this type of stuff.