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Speech and Communication: Primary Sources the History of Conspiracies Theories (US)

Books

Conspiracy Theories in American History by Peter Knight
A comprehensive history of conspiracies and conspiracy theories in the United States.

Government Documents

Supreme Court of Judicature, New York City, “New York Conspiracy”
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“The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies in Congress”
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Thomas Jefferson, “Minute of Conversation with Genet”
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Alien and Sedition Acts
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Anti-Masonic Convention
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President Andrew Jackson, “Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States”
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Abraham Lincoln, “Spot Resolution”
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Zimmermann Telegram
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J. Edgar Hoover, “Testimony before HUAC”
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“NSC-68: The United States Objectives and Programs for National Security”
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Reece Committee Report
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Doolittle Committee, “Report on the Covert Activities of the Central Intelligence Agency”
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A. H. Belmont, “CPUSA—Counterintelligence Program”
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Warren Commission Report
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J. Edgar Hoover, “Counterintelligence Program, Black Nationalist–Hate Groups”
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Donald M. MacArthur, “Testimony before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations”
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“Report on CIA Chilean Task Force Activities”
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Pentagon Papers
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Richard Nixon, “Whole Bay of Pigs Thing”
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Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Hearing on MKULTRA
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Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations
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House Judiciary Committee, “The Inslaw Affair”
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Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, “Is Military Research Hazardous to Veterans’ Health?”
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Lawrence E. Walsh, Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters
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Montana Freemen, “Mandamus Judicial Notice”
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James Traficant, “The Federal Reserve”
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Lawton et al. v. Republic of Iraq
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Personal Accounts

A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston
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Nat Turner, Confessions
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Charles Chiniquy, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome
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Lee Harvey Oswald, “Historic Diary”
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Articles

Columbus Record, “Americans Beware”
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A. Mitchell Palmer, “The Case against the Reds”
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Robert H. W. Welch, “The Truth in Time”
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“J.F.K. Assassination, 11/22/63: Coincidence or Conspiracy?”
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“Adam Weishaupt, 1776, The Green Back, and All That”
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Freedom Networker, “Trained as Traitors, Liars and Slavemasters!”
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William F. Jasper, “Conspiracy: Where’s the Proof?”
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Michael Rivero, “Fake Terror: The Road to Dictatorship”
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Ether Zone, “Clinton Body Count”
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Jason Jeffrey, “Brain Zapping”
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Robert Helmer, “Shell Extension City: The True Story”
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Robert Gaylon Ross Sr., “Globalization and Secret Societies Exposed”
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Iraq Had the “Means” to Commit Terrorist Acts in the United States.
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Conspiracy Theories: Secondary Source Topics

Conspiracy: Topic Page
in law, agreement of two or more persons to commit a criminal or otherwise unlawful act. At common law, the crime of conspiracy was committed with the making of the agreement, but present-day statutes require an overt step by a conspirator to further the conspiracy.
Conspiracy theories: Topic Page
Conspiracy theories are sets of often erroneous beliefs that people use to explain malevolent and/ or unlawful acts that are perceived to be directed by and in favor of a small and powerful group that works in secret against a larger group of unwitting victims.
Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765: Topic Page
Conflict between Native Americans and British troops and colonists that followed the French and Indian War (1754–1763). Pontiac's Rebellion, also known as Pontiac's War or Pontiac's Uprising, was named for its principal leader, the Ottawa Indian Pontiac.

Nonfiction

Cotton Mather, Wonders of the Invisible World
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Francis Parkman, The Conspiracy of Pontiac
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George Washington, “There Has Been a Regular, Systematic Plan”
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Alexander Hamilton, “Remarks on the Quebec Bill”
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Aedenus Burke, Considerations on the Society or Order of Cincinnati
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George Mason, “Objections . . . to the Proposed Federal Constitution”
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John Robison, Proofs of a Conspiracy
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William Manning, “The Key of Liberty: Shewing the Causes Why a Free Government Has Always Failed and a Remedy against It”
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Abraham Bishop, Proofs of a Conspiracy
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David Bernard, Light on Masonry
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William M. Gouge, A Short History of Paper Money
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Samuel F. B. Morse, Conspiracy against the Liberties of the United States
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John Smith Dye, The Great Conspiracy to Overthrow Liberty in America
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E. J. Farmer, The Conspiracy against Silver in the United States
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Theodore Roosevelt, “The Hun within Our Gates”
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William Harvey, Coin’s Financial School
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“An Introduction to the ‘Jewish Protocols’”
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Bishop Alma White, Heroes of the Fiery Cross
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Emanuel Josephson, Rockefeller “Internationalist”
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Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope
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Elijah Muhammad, Message to the Blackman in America
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Richard E. Sprague, The Taking of America, 1-2-3
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Pat Robertson, “Are Credit Cards Associated with the Mark of the Beast?”
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Webster G. Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin, George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography
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Norman Mailer, Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery
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David Allen Rivera, Final Warning: A History of the New World Order
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Mark E. Willey, “Pearl Harbor: Mother of All Conspiracies”
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Edward J. Markey, “American Nuclear Guinea Pigs”
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Letters

Robert Hunter, “Letter to the Lords of the Trade”
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Matthew Smith and James Gibson, “A Declaration and Remonstrance of the Distressed and Bleeding Frontier Inhabitants of the Province ofPennsylvania”
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Samuel Adams, “Letter to Arthur Lee”
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Speeches

George Washington, “Farewell Address”
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Jedidiah Morse, A Sermon, Exhibiting the Present Dangers
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William Jennings Bryan, “Cross of Gold Speech”
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Louis T. McFadden, The Federal Reserve: A Corrupt System
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Senator Joseph McCarthy, “Conspiracy of Infamy” Speech
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James Traficant, Jr., “The U.S. Is Bankrupt”
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Bill Clinton, “Remarks by the President in Apology for Study Done in Tuskegee”
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Lawrence Teeter, “Statement on the 30th Anniversary of Robert Kennedy’s Assassination”
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Rosenberg Sons’ Statement on the Forty-Fifth Anniversary of Their Parents’ Execution
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Michael C. Ruppert, “Statement at unansweredquestions.org Press Conference” (10 June 2002)
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Miscellaneous

Richard Henry Lee, “The Westmoreland Resolves”
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”American Platform of Principles: Adopted at Philadelphia, 21 February 1856”
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“The Omaha Platform”
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Protocols of the Elders of Zion
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“The Torbitt Document”
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“Alien/CIA Connection”
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Police against the New World Order, “Operation Vampire Killer 2000”
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Agent Orange, “Operation Paperclip Casefile”
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Anti-Defamation League (ADL), “Minister Farrakhan: In His Own Words”
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