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Inside Jobs: On Conspiracy Theories

Within hours of the April 15th Boston Marathon Bombing, social media, independent news outlets and personal blogs were rife with nascent theories about the government’s involvement in this perpetration of a “false flag attack.” Parents of victims in the December Newtown, Conn., school shooting were accused of being “crisis actors.” Fluoridation, Obama’s birth certificate, the 9/11 attacks, the assassination of JFK, the implementation of a New World Order by the Illuminati controlled by the Elders of Zion: it seems that every new public catastrophe is immediately followed by a chorus of voices “just asking questions” about the shadowy nature of the narrative behind the narrative. Why do so many seemingly rational people believe in conspiracies? Join Brian, Gene and Lee as they discuss the social and psychological mechanism of this substantial — and growing — subculture as Inside Jobs investigates The Origin of Conspiracy Theories.

Inside Jobs: RFK Assassination

On June 5, 1968, after winning a make-or-break Democratic primary election in California, Robert Francis Kennedy thanked his supporters at the Ambassador Ballroom before being whisked into the hotel kitchen. Although he was surrounded by campaign staff, an assassin was able to get close to RFK and put three bullets in him, including a fatal head shot. Although 75 eyewitnesses saw the killing, discrepencies remain in the final story, and questions about the identity of second gunmen, as well as the motives of convicted killer Sirhan Sirhan, are unanswered to this day.  Join Brian, Gene and Lee as they investigate The Assasination of RFK on Inside Jobs.

Inside Jobs: Killing Hitler

After a rough childhood and adolescence, which involved losing his father and then mother, living on the streets of Vienna, and serving through World War I, Adolf Hitler joined the Nazi Party and rose to become the undisputed master of that party, and then Germany itself. Hitler’s racist, militaristic Germany started World War II in Europe and devoted itself to wiping out various social and ethnic groups, including Communists and Jews. Although Hitler was wildly popular with certain European groups, he made many enemies, and found himself the target of various assassination plots. On this episode of Inside Jobs, we investigate The Plot to Kill Hitler.

Inside Jobs: Oklahoma Bombing

Did Timothy McVeigh act alone?

Inside Jobs: Jonestown

The infamous Jonestown episode from 2013ish.

Inside Jobs: Lindbergh Kidnapping

On March 1, 1932, famed aviator Charles Lindbergh heard a noise on the upper floor of his East Amwell, New Jersey, home, and climbed the stairs to investigate. He found a makeshift ladder, an envelope and an open window. What he did not find was his 20-month old son, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., whose kidnapping ignited the beginning of a three-year, nationwide manhunt for the person or persons who had taken the child. Local police, federal authorities and private citizens joined the search until eventually German immigrant worker Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested and tried on evidence many think was invented or altered to ensure a swift conviction and subsequent execution. Join Brian, Gene and Lee as they investigate The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping on Inside Jobs.

Inside Jobs: The Assassination of Malcolm X

Malcolm X was a defiant, dominating speaker, activist and leader whose controversial views and actions made him enemies in many quarters. After a hardscrabble youth and time spent in prison, he abandoned his former hustling partners to pursue a righteous path in the Nation of Islam under the leader Elijah Muhammad. His often stark rhetoric attracted followers to the Nation and made many whites as well as blacks uncomfortable, especially those working in the New York Police Department, the FBI and the CIA. After feuding with Muhammad and other Nation leaders like Louis Farrakhan, Malcolm left the organization and began his own, welcoming those of different races and damning the isolationist and rejectionist rhetoric of his past. It was while speaking on these topics on February 21, 1965, that an unknown number of gunmen opened fire on Malcolm X, ending his life at 39. With so many enemies, can we ever know who killed Malcolm X? Join Brian, Gene and Lee as they investigate The Assassination of Malcolm X on Inside Jobs. 

Inside Jobs: The Treason of Aaron Burr

Many are familiar with the first chapter in the downfall of Aaron Burr, when the third vice-president of the United States met former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in the forests of Weehawken, New Jersey for a duel. Burr shot Hamilton down on July 11th, 1804, and though charged in both New York and New Jersey for murder, he was never brought to trial. However, the rest of Burr’s life, though much more adventurous and populated by a motley crew of characters, is far less well-known. Following this unsavory incident, Burr relinquished the office of the vice-president to his successor and began traveling through the Southern and Western territories of what are now Louisiana, Texas and Kentucky, making military connections, spending heavily and — if recopied letters and hearsay are to be believed — plotting a war against Spain and secession of the Western territories from the Union. Although a subsequent treason trial acquitted Burr, questions remain about his intentions and plans. Did Burr kill Hamilton to disguise his secessionist plans? Did Burr hope to assassinate that prick Thomas Jefferson? Can Brian, who is jetlagged out of his mind, keep control of the show before it devolves into infinite Duke Nukem quotes? Join Brian, Gene and Lee as they investigate The Treason of Aaron Burr.