It happens that a number of "conspiracy theories" - generally consigned to the bin for loonies today - are actually proven true. At least, that's the premise of a pretty compelling bin of data with supportive evidence (in many cases).

In 1933, group of wealthy businessmen that allegedly included the heads of Chase Bank, GM, Goodyear, Standard Oil, the DuPont family and Senator Prescott Bush tried to recruit Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler to lead a military coup against President FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in the United States. And yes, we're talking about the same Prescott Bush who fathered one US President and grandfathered another one.

In 1934, the Business Plot was publicly revealed by retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler testifying to the McCormack-Dickstein Congressional Committee. In his testimony, Butler claimed that a group of men had approached him as part of a plot to overthrow Roosevelt in a military coup.

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The HSCA was established in 1976 to investigate the John F. Kennedy assassination and the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination. The Committee investigated until 1978, and in 1979 issued its final report, concluding that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated by a conspiracy involving the mob, and potentially the CIA. The House Select Committee on Assassinations undertook reinvestigations of the murders of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1979, a single Report and twelve volumes of appendices on each assassination were published by the Congress. In the JFK case, the HSCA found that there was a "probable conspiracy."

It's interesting that our media tend to minimize, or to dismiss, and in some cases simply refuse to report such findings.

The JFK assassination was carried out by one guy - Lee Harvey Oswald. Jack Ruby was just a citizen acting out of moral outrage.

And a prominent bridge is up for sale.

Wait, what? Overthrow and install a fascist dictatorship (pretty much what we seem to have going now, but that's another story)?