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History conspiracy podcastMay 01, 2021

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Murder in Newtown - Sandy Hook Elementary - The Alex Jones Deposition

Murder in Newtown - Sandy Hook Elementary - The Alex Jones Deposition

Newtown shootings of 2012, also called Sandy Hook School shooting, mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012, that left 28 people dead and 2 injured. In addition to the shooter, 18 children and 6 adults died at Sandy Hook School and 2 children died at a nearby hospital, making it one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.
In March 2018, six families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, as well as an FBI agent who responded to the attack, filed a defamation lawsuit in Bridgeport Superior Court in Connecticut against Alex Jones who runs the website InfoWars,2 for his role in spreading conspiracy theories about the shooting.
Dec 11, 202203:21:60
 September 11, 2001 - the FAA and NORAD tapes

September 11, 2001 - the FAA and NORAD tapes


Federal Aviation Administration and North American Aerospace Defense Command on 9/11 behind the scenes. The tapes paint a minute-by-minute picture of what unfolded that day.
Sep 12, 202201:52:50
September 11, 2001 - The Testimony of an Air Traffic Controller

September 11, 2001 - The Testimony of an Air Traffic Controller

September 11 commission testimony of Danielle O'Brien-Howell
Aug 19, 202201:16:25
True Crime History - University of Texas tower shooting - 1966

True Crime History - University of Texas tower shooting - 1966

On August 1, 1966, after stabbing his mother and his wife to death the night before, Charles Whitman, a former Marine, took rifles and other weapons to the observation deck atop the Main Building tower at the University of Texas at Austin, then opened fire indiscriminately on people on the surrounding campus and streets. Over the next 96 minutes he shot and killed 15 people, including an unborn child and one final victim who died from his injuries in 2001. Whitman also injured 31 others. The incident ended when a policeman and a civilian reached Whitman and shot him dead. At the time, the attack was the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history, being surpassed 18 years later by the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre.
Aug 07, 202201:33:56
Alex Jones Defamation Trial: Attorney's Opening Statement

Alex Jones Defamation Trial: Attorney's Opening Statement

On April 16, 2018, Neil Heslin, father of victim Jesse Lewis, filed a defamation suit against Jones, Infowars and Free Speech Systems in Travis County, Texas

Jul 28, 202201:56:24
Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan - March 30, 1981 - Radio Broadcast

Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan - March 30, 1981 - Radio Broadcast

President of the United States Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C. as he was returning to his limousine after a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton. Hinckley believed the attack would impress actress Jodie Foster, with whom he had developed an erotomanic obsession.

Reagan was seriously wounded by a .22 Long Rifle bullet that ricocheted off the side of the presidential limousine and hit him in the left underarm, breaking a rib, puncturing a lung, and causing serious internal bleeding. He was close to death upon arrival at George Washington University Hospital but was stabilized in the emergency room, then underwent emergency exploratory surgery. He recovered and was released from the hospital on April 11. No formal invocation of sections #3 or #4 of the Constitution's 25th amendment (concerning the vice president assuming the president's powers and duties) took place, though Secretary of State Alexander Haig stated that he was "in control here" at the White House until Vice President George H. W. Bush returned to Washington from Fort Worth, Texas.

White House press secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy, and DC police officer Thomas Delahanty were also wounded. All three survived, but Brady had brain damage and was permanently disabled. His death in 2014 was considered a homicide because it was ultimately caused by his injury.

Jul 24, 202203:33:42
Titanic - Survivors Speak

Titanic - Survivors Speak

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK, to New York City. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, which made the sinking one of the deadliest for a single ship up to that time. It remains the deadliest peacetime sinking of a superliner or cruise ship. The disaster drew public attention, provided foundational material for the disaster film genre, and has inspired many artistic works.

Jul 12, 202246:52
Oklahoma City Bombing - April 19, 1995

Oklahoma City Bombing - April 19, 1995

The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, on April 19, 1995. Perpetrated by American terrorists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the bombing happened at 9:02 am and killed at least 168 people, including many children, injured more than 680 others, and destroyed more than one third of the building, which had to be demolished. The blast destroyed or damaged 324 other buildings within a 16-block radius, shattered glass in 258 nearby buildings, and destroyed or burned 86 cars, causing an estimated $652 million worth of damage. Local, state, federal, and worldwide agencies engaged in extensive rescue efforts in the wake of the bombing. They and the city received substantial donations from across the country. The Federal Emergency Management Agency activated 11 of its Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces, consisting of 665 rescue workers who assisted in rescue and recovery operations. Until the September 11 attacks in 2001, the Oklahoma City bombing was the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of the United States. It remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
Jun 20, 202203:14:34
RFK Assassination-1968 California primary live

RFK Assassination-1968 California primary live

.Assassination of Robert Kennedy following the California primary election. live coverage June 4 1968
Jun 08, 202201:44:13
Ted Kaczynski - Unabomber Manifesto

Ted Kaczynski - Unabomber Manifesto

Theodore John Kaczynski also known as the Unabomber , is an American domestic terrorist, anarchist and former mathematics professor.He was a mathematics prodigy, but abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a more primitive life. Between 1978 and 1995, he killed three people and injured 23 others in a nationwide bombing campaign against people involved with modern technology. He issued a social critique opposing industrialization and advocating a nature-centered form of anarchism.
May 27, 202202:39:59
What Happened At Three Mile Island ?

What Happened At Three Mile Island ?

The Three Mile Island accident was a partial meltdown of reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI-2) in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg, and subsequent radiation leak that occurred on March 28, 1979. It is the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. On the seven-point International Nuclear Event Scale, the incident was rated a five as an "accident with wider consequences
May 15, 202202:05:27
May 4 1970 Kent State part one

May 4 1970 Kent State part one

What is the truth about the murders at Kent State? Featuring the sworn testimony of  General Robert Canterbury. 

May 03, 202255:13
Watergate - E. Howard Hunt testimony

Watergate - E. Howard Hunt testimony

E. Howard Hunt was an American intelligence officer and published author of 73 books. From 1949 to 1970, Hunt served as an officer in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Along with G. Gordon Liddy, Frank Sturgis, and others, Hunt was one of the Nixon administration "plumbers", a team of operatives charged with identifying government sources of national security information "leaks" to outside parties. Hunt and Liddy plotted the Watergate burglaries and other clandestine operations for the Nixon administration. In the ensuing Watergate scandal, Hunt was convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping, eventually serving 33 months in prison.
Apr 24, 202202:51:50
Domestic Surveillance - The Huston Plan

Domestic Surveillance - The Huston Plan

The Huston Plan was a 43-page report and outline of proposed security operations put together by White House aide Tom Charles Huston in 1970. It came to light during the 1973 Watergate hearings headed by Senator Sam Ervin
Apr 18, 202239:12
 CHAOS - domestic espionage project targeting the American people

CHAOS - domestic espionage project targeting the American people

Operation CHAOS or Operation MHCHAOS was a Central Intelligence Agency domestic espionage project targeting the American people from 1967 to 1974
Apr 15, 202202:45:18
HSCA TESTIMONY -- DR. JAMES J. HUMES - SEPTEMBER 7, 1978

HSCA TESTIMONY -- DR. JAMES J. HUMES - SEPTEMBER 7, 1978

The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was established in 1976 to investigate the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963 and 1968, respectively

Capt. James J. Humes, the lead prosector at the autopsy of President Kennedy. Humes publicly retracted the autopsy report's placement of the fatal entry wound, which the Medical Panel determined was 4 inches away from the originally-noted spot. In 1992 for the Journal of the American Medical Association, and again in 1996 before the Assassinations Record Review Board, Humes retracted this retraction

Apr 10, 202229:16
Inside Infowars - Deposition of Paul Joseph Watson - Sandy Hook Case

Inside Infowars - Deposition of Paul Joseph Watson - Sandy Hook Case

Deposition of Paul Joseph Watson in Heslin v. Jones, taken by attorney Mark Bankston

Apr 03, 202201:18:53
Watergate - John Dean testimony

Watergate - John Dean testimony

On January 27, 1972, Dean, the White House Counsel, met with Jeb Magruder (Deputy Director of the Committee to Re-Elect the President, or CRP and CREEP) and John N. Mitchell (Attorney General of the United States, and soon-to-be Director of CRP), in Mitchell's office, for a presentation by G. Gordon Liddy (counsel for CRP and a former FBI agent). At that time, Liddy presented a preliminary plan for intelligence-gathering operations during the campaign. Reaction to Liddy's plan was highly unfavorable. Liddy was ordered to scale down his ideas and he presented a revised plan to the same group on February 4, which was, however, left unapproved at that stage.[18] In late March in Florida, a scaled-down plan would be approved by Mitchell.
Mar 31, 202205:16:34
Columbine High School shooting - 911 Audio and Dispatch Tapes

Columbine High School shooting - 911 Audio and Dispatch Tapes

April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Colorado. The perpetrators, twelfth grade students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered 12 students and one teacher. Ten students were killed in the school library, where the pair subsequently committed suicide.
Mar 27, 202204:56:18
JFK Assassination - Dallas Police Radio Recordings November 22 1963
Mar 15, 202247:55
The Murder Of Lee Harvey Oswald

The Murder Of Lee Harvey Oswald

THE MURDER OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD On Sunday, November 24, detectives were escorting Oswald through the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters toward an armored car that was to take him from the city jail (located on the fourth floor of police headquarters) to the nearby county jail. At 11:21 a.m. CST, Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby approached Oswald from the side of the crowd and shot him once in the abdomen at close range.
Mar 08, 202202:02:48
 Watergate - James W. McCord Jr. testimony

Watergate - James W. McCord Jr. testimony

Watergate 'Plumber' James McCord was an American CIA officer, later involved as an electronics expert in the burglaries which precipitated the Watergate scandal. Also Alfred Baldwin testimony,  the so-called "shadow man" in the Watergate break-in and the ensuing  scandal.  paypal.com/historyconspiracy.com


Mar 02, 202202:22:09
Lee Harvey Oswald in his own words

Lee Harvey Oswald in his own words

On August 9, 1963, New Orleans native Lee Harvey Oswald stood in front of the Ward Discount House at the corner of Canal and St. Charles streets distributing his Fair Play for Cuba Committee leaflets. The Fair Play for Cuba Committee was a pro-Castro organization that supported the Cuban Revolution against attacks by the United States Government. It was at this location where Oswald found himself in an altercation with the Cuban exile Carlos Bringuier. Just months prior to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested in New Orleans for disturbing the peace.
Feb 28, 202201:00:27
On Politics - George Orwell and Neil Postman

On Politics - George Orwell and Neil Postman

Politics and the English Language, by George Orwell and Amusing Ourselves to Death: Politics as Show Business by Neil Postman
Feb 24, 202201:08:46
Assassination of John Lennon - Mae Brussell

Assassination of John Lennon - Mae Brussell

On the evening of 8 December 1980, English musician John Lennon, formerly of the Beatles, was fatally shot in the archway of the Dakota, his residence in New York City. The perpetrator was Mark David Chapman, an American Beatles fan who had travelled from Hawaii. Chapman stated that he was angered by Lennon's lifestyle and public statements, especially his much-publicised remark about the Beatles being "more popular than Jesus" and the lyrics of his later songs "God" and "Imagine". Chapman also said he was inspired by the fictional character Holden Caulfield from J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye
Feb 21, 202202:59:19
CIA Torture Program - the John Rizzo Deposition

CIA Torture Program - the John Rizzo Deposition

John Anthony Rizzo was an American attorney who worked as a lawyer in the Central Intelligence Agency for 34 years. He was the deputy counsel or acting general counsel of the CIA for the first nine years of the War on Terror, during which the CIA held dozens of detainees in black site prisons around the globe.

During the George W. Bush administration, the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice approved various forms of torture (referred to as "enhanced interrogation techniques") in memos to Rizzo for use by CIA interrogators at the black sites. Rizzo signed off on all CIA-directed drone strikes from September 2001 until October 2009.

Feb 20, 202204:00:11
 September 11, 1973 - Chilean coup and the CIA

September 11, 1973 - Chilean coup and the CIA

The 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a military coup in Chile that deposed the Popular Unity government of President Salvador Allende. On 11 September 1973, after an extended period of social unrest and political tension between the opposition-controlled Congress and the socialist President, as well as economic warfare ordered by U.S President Richard Nixon a group of military officers led by General Augusto Pinochet and Admiral José Toribio Merino seized power in a coup, ending civilian rule
Feb 18, 202203:31:42
JFK Assassination - Witness to History - John Stringer photographer at the autopsy of President Kennedy

JFK Assassination - Witness to History - John Stringer photographer at the autopsy of President Kennedy

John Stringer is the photographer of record at the autopsy of President Kennedy, and took pictures at a supplementary brain exam days later. He was assisted by Floyd Riebe. Stringer was never interviewed by the Warren Commission, and his brief HSCA interview was among those materials apparently not made available to the HSCA's medical panel.This is his compete ARRB Interview .
Feb 15, 202204:21:39
The CIA and The News Media -from the Dave Emory archives
Feb 13, 202257:22
JFK Assassination - Oswald, the CIA, and Mexico City part two

JFK Assassination - Oswald, the CIA, and Mexico City part two

Lee Harvey Oswald’s mysterious visits to the Soviet and Cuban Embassies in Mexico City weeks before John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Written by staffers Dan Hardway and Edwin Lopez for the HSCA Report . (aka "Lopez Report")
Feb 10, 202202:47:36
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy - Second Gun with Ted Charach

Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy - Second Gun with Ted Charach

Documentary suggesting the possibility of another gunman involved in the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. This film ignited a worldwide controversy on 3 level, journalistic, legal and forensic. It continues today. The entire film, director’s copy and out-takes are housed at the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study/Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Hollywood CA. The Ted Charach RFK documentary archive, the world’s largest private collection on the Second Gun discovery, is located at the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Sciences at the University of New Haven, New Haven, CT

Feb 03, 202201:25:45
CIA Torture Program - the Bruce Jessen Deposition

CIA Torture Program - the Bruce Jessen Deposition

John Bruce Jessen is an American psychologist who, with James Elmer Mitchell, created the so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" that were used in the interrogation and torture of CIA detainees and outlined in the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's report on CIA torture. In that report, he was mentioned under the pseudonym "Hammond Dunbar." His company, Mitchell Jessen and Associates, earned US$81 million for its work.

On October 13, 2015 the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen on behalf of Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud, Suleiman Abdullah Salim, and the estate of Gul Rahman, three former detainees who were subjected to the interrogation methods they designed. The suit alleges that the defendants' conduct constituted torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment; non-consensual human experimentation; and war crimes – "all of which are violations of 'specific, universal, and obligatory' international law norms, as evidenced by numerous binding international treaties, declarations, and other international law instruments". A trial was set for June 2017.[18] On July 28, 2017, U.S. District Judge Justin Lowe Quackenbush denied both parties' motions for summary judgment, noted that the defendants are indemnified by the United States government, and encouraged the attorneys to reach a settlement before trial. A settlement was reached in August 2017.

Jan 28, 202204:00:07
JFK Assassination - Air Force One Flight Deck Recording
Jan 26, 202202:23:10
Dr. George Burkley - personal physician to President Kennedy

Dr. George Burkley - personal physician to President Kennedy

. This is an Oral History Interview with ADMIRAL GEORGE G. BURKLEY October 17. 1967 Washington, D.C The Warren Commission never interviewed him.
Jan 20, 202201:02:30
JFK Assassination - Gaeton Fonzi interviews Vincent Salandria July 1966
Jan 08, 202201:43:16
Gerald Ford assassination attempt in Sacramento 1975

Gerald Ford assassination attempt in Sacramento 1975

On September 5, 1975, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a member of the so-called Manson Family cult, attempted to assassinate United States President Gerald Ford in Sacramento, California
Dec 31, 202102:16:06
Symbionese Liberation Army & Patty Hearst..... The Don Freed and Mae Brussell Press Conference (1974)

Symbionese Liberation Army & Patty Hearst..... The Don Freed and Mae Brussell Press Conference (1974)

On May 4, 1974, Headley, along with freelance writer Donald Freed, held a press conference in San Francisco. They presented 400 pages of documentation of their findings, some of which included: - a year before the kidnapping Patty Hearst had visited convict, Donald DeFreeze, who later became the SLA's figurehead. - DeFreeze's arrest records; - the work of Colston Westbrook with Los Angeles Police Department's CCS (Criminal Conspiracy Section) and the State of California's Sacramento-based CII (Criminal Identification and Investigation) unit.; and evidence of links of the CIA to Police Departments. On May 17, 1974, The New York Times ran the story of DeFreeze and the Los Angeles Police Department. However, the story was largely overlooked due to this being the day of the shoot out and conflagration that killed DeFreeze and five other members of the SLA.

Dec 23, 202157:11
 Mind Control in America and Project MKUltra- Sidney Gottlieb

Mind Control in America and Project MKUltra- Sidney Gottlieb

A presentation by Stephen Kinzer author of Poisoner in Chief Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
Dec 19, 202101:09:03
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy - Local Radio Report

Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy - Local Radio Report

KNX-RADIO LOS Angeles Live Coverage , plus some raw unedited audio from the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles June 5, 1968
Dec 10, 202101:36:13
JFK Assassination - The Guns of November part three from the Dave Emory archives
Nov 21, 202102:12:55
JFK Assassination - the autopsy Dr. Pierre Finck HSCA testimony part one

JFK Assassination - the autopsy Dr. Pierre Finck HSCA testimony part one

Commander J. Thornton Boswell, M.D , Commander James J. Humes, M.D ,and Lieutenant Colonel Pierre A. Finck, M.D. preformed the autopsy of President Kennedy and here is Dr Finck under oath.
Nov 19, 202101:48:55
The War of the Worlds -1938 - radio drama

The War of the Worlds -1938 - radio drama

An episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles as an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1898). It was performed and broadcast live as a Halloween episode at 8 p.m. on Sunday, October 30, 1938, over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. The episode became famous for allegedly causing panic among its listening audience, though the scale of that panic is disputed, as the program had relatively few listeners.
Oct 27, 202102:12:44
JFK Assassination - Witness to history - Nurse Tuohy

JFK Assassination - Witness to history - Nurse Tuohy

HSCA Interview with Parkland Nurse Sharon Tuohy
Oct 19, 202129:54
JFK Assassination- Guns of November part two from the Dave Emory archives
Oct 11, 202152:09
JFK Assassination - The Guns of November part one from the Dave Emory archives
Oct 06, 202101:28:57
JFK Assassination --Witness to History- George de Mohrenschildt

JFK Assassination --Witness to History- George de Mohrenschildt

George de Mohrenschildt was a friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian-born wife Marina Oswald in the summer of 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas. Mohrenschildt testified to the Warren Commission in 1964 that he had met the Oswalds through a prominent member of the local Russian-American community, oil accountant George Bouhe.
Sep 28, 202139:15
JFK Assassination - Missing Photographs from the Autopsy of President Kennedy ? - Saundra Spencer
Sep 24, 202101:52:00
 JFK Assassination - Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry interviews

JFK Assassination - Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry interviews

Dallas Chief of Police Jesse Curry was riding in the lead car of the Presidential motorcade with sheriff James Eric "Bill" Decker when they turned west off Houston Street onto Elm Street. Looking straight ahead, they noticed "a few unauthorized people on the overpass and wondered how they got there." Those people were later described as thirteen railroad men and two policemen who were stationed on the overpass (Triple Underpass) against rules of protocol. After the Presidential motorcade had proceeded a few more yards, Curry heard the first gunshot and immediately shouted over the police radio: "Get a man on top of that triple underpass and see what happened up there!"[4] His words sounded an alarm that something was dreadfully wrong
Sep 19, 202137:21
JFK Assassination - author Sylvia Meagher - Accessories After the Fact 1967 radio interview

JFK Assassination - author Sylvia Meagher - Accessories After the Fact 1967 radio interview

Accessories After the Fact: The Warren Commission, the Authorities, and the Report (1967)
Sep 16, 202101:03:17
Christopher Lasch - The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminished Expectations.

Christopher Lasch - The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminished Expectations.

Robert Christopher Lasch was an American historian, moralist, and social critic who was a history professor at the University of Rochester. Lasch sought to use history as a tool to awaken American society to the pervasiveness with which major institutions, public and private, were eroding the competence and independence of families and communities. He strove to create a historically informed social criticism that could teach Americans how to deal with rampant consumerism, proletarianization, and what he famously labeled "the culture of narcissism".
Sep 12, 202130:06