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Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In 1961, President Kennedy announced that the United States would go to the moon. Eight years later, the Apollo 11 astronauts set foot upon its surface. Millions of Americans watched live on their televisions as it happened, but somehow the pinnacle of man’s achievement became a wellspring of conspiracy theories. In this first episode of a two-part series on the moon landing, Jill Lepore traces the explosion of conspiratorial thinking that began with Apollo 11’s lift off — a path winding from awe of science, to the unshakeable faith that everything is a conspiracy. The more extraordinary scientific research and technology got, the more difficult it became to keep sight of the line between fact and fiction, and between the believable and the unbelievable. 

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0:00.0

A series of strange and violent deaths rocked Osage County Oklahoma a century ago.

0:15.0

Sisters Rita, Mini, Anna and their mother Lizzie all left behind lucrative rights to the

0:20.0

oil beneath Osage land, while lawman Tom White was horrified by the chilling plot he uncovered.

0:26.5

Join me, Tim Halford, host of the Corscht retails podcast, my new two-parter on the Osage

0:32.0

Killings, the story behind the book and film Killers of the Flower Moon.

0:36.5

Part one is available now wherever you get your podcasts.

0:42.5

There's a place in our world where the dubious things end up.

0:47.5

A morgue of fakes, hoaxes, frauds, and conspiracy theories.

0:54.5

I've got a wall of televisions in here.

0:58.5

I think it's a hoax. I think it's a hoax by the newspapers and the Democrats.

1:04.5

A lot of this stuff, no matter what it's supposedly about, the pandemic, the election.

1:09.5

It sounds like a broken record.

1:12.5

It's a hoax. It's a hoax. Everybody knows that. It's a complete hoax.

1:18.5

It's like a Russian doll. Crack open one hoax and inside there's just another hoax.

1:23.5

Hoax after hoax.

1:25.5

It's nothing but a hoax. It's a hoax because as soon as the impeachment was over,

1:30.5

they needed something else to bring down Trump and they had to bring the economy down and this is it.

1:36.5

And I'll tell you why.

1:38.5

James, do you think that somebody conspired to have a virus to bring down the president?

1:45.5

The deep state. The deep state.

1:47.5

Conspiracy theorists look for patterns. They connect the dots.

1:52.5

But that's also how historians work.

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