This Day in History: American lawyer and judge Jim Garrison died on this day in 1992. Garrison is best known for his investigations into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and he was portrayed by Kevin Costner in the Oliver Stone movie JFK, while Garrison himself actually portrayed Earl Warren. He also played "Judge Jim Garrison" in the 1986 movie The Big Easy, and as such has his own IMDB entry. The movie JFK was originally four and a half hours long. In fact, I remember owning the Director's Cut was 2 VHS tapes long.
Ever since that pivotal day on November 22 1963, JFK conspiracies have become a cottage industry. One of the first books on the topic was Rush to Judgment by Mark Lane, which sold millions of copies. Vincent Bugliosi estimates that over 1,000 books have been written about the Kennedy assassination, at least ninety percent of which are works supporting the view that there was a conspiracy. As a result of this, the Kennedy assassination has been described as "the mother of all conspiracies". Other popular conspiracies are 9/11, the moon landing hoax, the Roswell crash cover-up, Satanic cults, Paul McCartney's death, Princess Diana's murder, flat earth theory, Stephen King shot John Lennon, Kurt Cobain was murdered by Courtney Love, Pro wrestling is real, The "Men in Black" are real, the Titanic was deliberately sunk because Jacob Astor opposed the Federal Reserve which was established a year later, Scientologists rule Hollywood, the world is run by dinosaur-like reptiles, the Mandela effect, Alex Jones is actually Bill Hicks, Elvis is alive, Stevie Wonder isn't really blind, the Masons secretly run everything, CERN is using the LHC to open a portal to hell, and Hitler did not commit suicide in 1945 and escaped to South America. I'm sure I missed several thousand.
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