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Kathryn Olmsted

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JFK’s Assassination and “Doing Your Own Research”

Revelations about secret government programs after Kennedy’s assassination increased the power of conspiracy theories.

by Livia Gershon, Kathryn Olmsted via JSTOR Daily on April 20, 2023

The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler

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Lord Beaverbrook and Winston Churchill on the HMS Prince of Wales during the Atlantic Conference, Newfoundland, Canada, August 1941.

The Limits of Press Power

To what extent did newspapers influence public opinion in the US and Britain before and during World War II?

by Geoffrey Wheatcroft via New York Review of Books on October 22, 2022

President Warren G. Harding against a background of news clippings related to his death.

Why President Warren G. Harding's Sudden Death Sparked Rumors of Murder and Suicide

The commander in chief's unexpected death in office 100 years ago fueled decades of conspiracy theories but was most likely the result of a heart attack.

by Greg Daugherty via Smithsonian on August 1, 2023

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