Why So Many Americans Still Get the JFK Assassination Wrong
A year after my viral conversation with Ben Shapiro, a deeper look at why conspiracy theories persist despite the evidence.
A year ago today, a conversation I had with Ben Shapiro about the JFK assassination went viral. That did not surprise me nearly as much as the reason it happened. More than six decades after President Kennedy was murdered in Dallas, the case still exerts a strong gravitational pull on the American imagination. It is not simply that people remain interested. It is that so many still resist the most basic conclusion supported by the overwhelming evidence: Lee Harvey Oswald killed John F. Kennedy.
That should not still be controversial. Yet it is.
I have reported for decades on real and imagined conspiracies. There is an important difference. Real conspiracies leave evidence trails. People meet, talk, plan, and conceal. Eventually one of them slips, financial records surface, witnesses emerge. The lies do not remain perfectly sealed forever. As an attorney, I understand …
