Nick Bryant

Wow.

Wow.

And it was a silent coup.

The coup of 63 was very problematic.

Most Americans did not believe the Warren Commission report.

66% of Americans believe that Oswald didn't act alone, but it was even higher there because the Warren Commission is, as Bobby Kennedy said, the Bobby Kennedy that got assassinated, a pretty shoddy piece of work.

So I think assassinating Nixon was off the table.

This was how they felt like they had to get him out.

Man.

But what's really interesting, in 1967, because there was a huge backlash against the Warren Commission report.

I mean, the Warren Commission report is very problematic.

And a lot of people weren't buying it.

So the CIA came out with a dispatch in 1967.

And it said that the people who don't believe in the Warren Commission, we're going to call them conspiracy theorists.

And then it gave a number of rationales why conspiracy theorists are conspiracy theorists.

And then it was disseminated to editors and people with Jews.

The New York Times and the Washington Post use the word conspiracy theorist about once a year prior to that 1967 dispatch.

But after that 1977 dispatch, the term conspiracy theory and conspiracy theorist just shot up exponentially in both papers.

So people just automatically think of something, and they go, oh, conspiracy theory.

They're drinking the Kool-Aid.