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Crime: This type of CT's revolve around what motivated people to commit certain crimes, these crimes are always horrible, vile from a very obscure, mysterious nature. The people who commit these crimes are always most likely connected or involved in something else which is how the CT's come in.
Mystery: Mystery CT's are when someone goes missing and information is later revealed about the disappearance. The disappearances mostly happens during mysterious circumstances, which is people end up always finding ways to tie the occurrence to a CT.

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Political conspiracy theories revolve around presidents, and politicians of higher power and popularity. It was popular in the 1800's for these conspiracy theories to focus around politicians.

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Social conspiracy theories revolve around celebrities, businessmen, people of power in general.

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As stated above, The shooter, Bowers, confessed on the fact that he was acting in on a anti-semitic CT. Again, it proves the fact that the crime, in this case the crime being a massacre, hence the words I stated above "Horrible, obscure and vile" was connected to what seems to be an Anti-Semitic CT against Jews which basically states that they're controlling the world governments and "Oppressing the White race."

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This quote again explains that Tesla's situation with the government is more related to crime as we don't actually know what exactly is in those documents and why the government seized them. The mystery of it all is why is the CT's about this topic started.

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After Nikola Tesla was found dead in January 1943 in his hotel room, the U.S. government’s Office of Alien Property seized many documents related to the 86-year-old inventor’s work.   So rather than risk Tesla’s technology falling into the hands of America’s enemies, the government swooped in and took possession of all the property and documents from his room at the New Yorker Hotel.

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"After media identified the suspect, Robert D. Bowers, and duly excavated his apparent social-media postings, there was at least a hint of what was in his mind: By his own account, he was acting in the grip of an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory." Paragraph 1

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This titanic-related CT is a social conspiracy as well because it mentions fraud and how the titanic might have been swapped with another one because of money problems

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This conspiracy theory is classified as social because it shows and talks about how the businessman that we all have heard of -JP Morgan, also known as the founder of Chase, got out of the ship moments before it sank and while looking at what might have been the reasons of why he did, it was found that 3 of his rivals, fellow millionaires Jacob Astor, Isidor Straus and Benjamin Guggenheim (again they're men of power, could have also been considered important and celebrities) were in the ship. So CT's started emerging and spreading around the rumor that he was the one who sunk the ship in order to get rid of his enemies.

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"People seem to love a good insurance fraud story, so maybe it’s unsurprising that this conspiracy theory is one of the Titanic’s most popular. This one posits that someone switched the Titanic with another White Star Line ship, the R.M.S. Olympic." Paragraph 6

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"According to this theory, millionaire banker J.P. Morgan planned the Titanic disaster to kill off rival millionaires Jacob Astor, Isidor Straus and Benjamin Guggenheim, who all perished aboard." Paragraph 3

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These two quotes from the text state how presidential topics/conflicts are what were more prevalent during this time. Things explained in quote 2 such as "the slave power" is a big political term as well and kind of gives me an idea what other things these CT's delved into.

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Calhoun might not have been directly involved in the assault, Dye conceded. But Dye believed that Calhoun had been a part of a larger force, the Slave Power, that would have benefited if Jackson had been put in the ground. And he was convinced the Slave Power had assassinated two more U.S. presidents — William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor — and that another, James Buchanan, had narrowly escaped death at their hands.

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Some of Jackson's critics countered by suggesting that the president had staged the assault to gain public support, and that this explained why both weapons had failed. And many Jacksonians pointed their finger at Sen. John Calhoun of South Carolina.

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Conspiracy theories have gone from being mostly political in the 1800's, more social in the 1900's, to more crime/mystery oriented now in modern times. The way technology has evolved now helps us understand what is it that conditions our minds to believe them, what is the psychology behind these conspiracies, and how are they affecting us.

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Conspiracy theories have been around since forever, but they have been more prevalent in American history. They have gone from an array of topics, but the main focus has always been around political subjects, in an attempt to explain strange occurrences in the said political world.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/118BNHgMyv6PdB03bbfc3xSlVBPtoo1tE8KHHkbRXHsM/edit?usp=sharing

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After the seize of Tesla's documents, the public wondered for a long time what exactly happened to those documents. In 2016, the FBI declassified about 250 pages of Tesla's documents under the Freedom of Information Act. However, the public noticed that those weren't all the files, and that there were some missing that the FBI never released.  So ever since then people have wondered and conspired about why are some documents still missing and what if the government is hiding something.

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At the "height" of World War ll, Tesla claimed to have invented a powerful particle-beam weapon, known as the “Death Ray," "'that could have proved invaluable in the ongoing conflict'" (Para 2) So, in order to not risk Tesla's technology falling into the wrong hands (U.S's enemies)- The government swooped in and took all the documents.

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When the famous Nikola Tesla was found dead in his hotel room at the age of 86 years old, the U.S. government’s Office of Alien Property seized many documents regarding sensitive information. Many conspiracy theories aroused from this, making many people rumor about why would the government seize the documents.

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WHY do we believe in Conspiracy theories? What is the psychology behind them?

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WHY do we believe in Conspiracy theories? What is the psychology behind them?

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-One of the reasons people believe in Conspiracy Theories is because of something called "Epistemic Motives" and these are basically "Finding causal explanations for events is a core part of
building up a stable, accurate, and internally consistent
understanding of the world (Heider, 1958)

-A survey in which a person called Ted Goertzlel conducted found that black and hispanic people are likely to believe in CT's as well as younger people. Education, age, and gender also play a role.

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She has earned a B.A. in History and a certificate in American Studies from Princeton University and an M.A. in Spanish Language and Literature from Middlebury College. She specializes in historical narrative. She is a frequent contributor at the History Channel.

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3) Nikola Tesla's missing files Conspiracy, 1943

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3) Nikola Tesla's missing files Conspiracy, 1943

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Shooter

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"Anti-Semitism is a malevolent recurring theme. For jihadists, it’s the belief that Islam is under attack by a Judeo-Christian West. For neo-Nazis, it’s the belief that Jews are secretly controlling world governments and oppressing the “white” race." (Para 3)

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4) Pittsburg Synagogue Massacre Conspiracy, 2018

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4) Pittsburg Synagogue Massacre Conspiracy, 2018

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She is a staff writer at The Atlantic, covering national security and global affairs. She was previously an editor at World Politics Review. Both places are respected, and to be an editor and a writer in those places is a big accomplishment.

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Its a multi-platform publisher. It provides daily coverage and analysis of breaking news, politics and international affairs, education, technology, health, science, and culture.

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It was found that the shooter, Robert D. Bowers had been acting on the grip of the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. The shooter's reported claim was that he was acting to prevent the “slaughter” of his people at the hands of immigrants that he thought were being brought to the United States by a Jewish refugee agency. He mentioned other shooters, such as Dylann Roof,  who killed nine in a Charleston church in 2015 and Anders Breivik who killed 77 people at a summer cap located in Norway in 2011.

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The Synagogue massacre was a massacre that happened in Pittsburgh at the Tree of Life- Or L'Simcha Congregation in the Squirrel Hill neighbourhood while Shabbat morning services were being held. Eleven people were killed, seven were injured. It was called 'The deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the United States.

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The authors have a similar writing style but they differ in the way they explain their conspiracies and what their conspiracies are about, Walker's writing focuses more on the presidents, while Little's focuses more on the historical aspect of the Titanic tragedy, both of them however do provide evidence to explain their reasoning.

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There was a ship called the R.M.S Olympic, who was damaged. The company allegedly repaired the ship, but it came back in March of 1912 for more repairs, just a few weeks before Titanic sailed. The conspiracy states that some people found out that because the Olympic was damaged, it wasn't profitable and so they switched the ship with Titanic, so that the ship could sink, and in the process obtain insurance money, but killing thousands of people in the process.

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3 of J.P Morgan's rivals, millionaires Jacob Astor, Isidor Straus and Benjamin Guggenheim all died on the disaster making people rumor that Morgan caused the accident. The evidence for this was that Morgan originally was set to travel on the ship, but mysteriously changed his mind a short time before it took off. The theory states is that he had motive to kill them because they were his rivals and because they were opposed to the creation of The Federal Reserve.

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She graduated from the College of William and Mary with a degree in writing. Her works have been published in places such as the History channel, National Geographic, Smithsonian, NPR, The Washington, and Washington City Paper.

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Very late in the evening, the well know Titanic sank into the ice cold waters of the North Atlantic killing over 1,517 of the 2,223 passengers and crew members aboard.

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Respected, digital-based cable channel, broadcasts over 96,149,000 American households. Has various locations in India, Europe, The Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Canada and Australia.

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"The term was common currency in the North, where it was used to describe the political influence of the planter elite." (Para 5)

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Assassinated

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Assassinated

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Escaped

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29 years after the incident with the president, a Republican writer called John Smith Dye concluded that while the Sen. Calhoun wasn't directly involved in the attempted murder, he might have been part of the "Slave Power" which would have very much benefited if the president was put down. He was also very convinced that The Slave Power had also assassinated not one but two U.S Presidents- William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor and that president James Buchanan had escaped an attempted murder from them.

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Others also spread around the rumor that the president himself had even staged his own murder as a publicity stunt. They explained that the publicity stunt made sense because it would explain why both weapons failed to fire. Others also believed that a senator from South Carolina also was at fault, his name was John Calhoun.

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Two witnesses filed affidavits claiming to have seen Lawrence at the home of a Mississippi Senator called George Poindexter. The reason this became a conspiracy theory was because the senator was an opponent of the president's, so he was accused of plotting the murder.

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He graduated from the University Of Michigan with a degree in History. His works have been published in respected newspapers/magazines such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The National Post, and even CNN.

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*https://theweek.com/articles/459843/brief-history-conspiracy-theories
(the week)

*http://reason.com/people/jesse-walker/all/3450
(education jw)

*https://www.history.com/news/titanic-sinking-conspiracy-myths-jp-morgan-olympic
(history.com titanic)

*https://www.biography.com/author/becky-little
(BL autobiography)

*https://www.linkedin.com/in/becky-little-122bb433
(BL edu)

*https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/10/conspiracy-theories-pittsburgh-murder/574372
(Pittsburgh synagogue)

*https://cdn.defenseone.com/a/defenseone/interstitial.html?v=8.21.0&rf=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.defenseone.com%2Fvoices%2Fkathy-gilsinan%2F9092%2F
(KG)

*https://www.history.com/news/nikola-tesla-files-declassified-fbi
(Tesla)

*https://greyfaction.org/ted-gunderson/
(ted gunderson)

*https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4w7adn/unmasking-lucien-greaves-aka-doug-mesner-leader-of-the-satanic-temple
(lg)

*https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-apes/201801/why-do-people-believe-in-conspiracy-theories
(why do we believe)

*https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5646574/

*https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0089177
(research journal #1)

*https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1745691618774270
(research journal #2)

*https://www.jstor.org/stable/3791630?seq=1/subjects
(research journal #3)

*https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0963721417718261
(research journal #4 what is the psych behind CT's?)

*vacccine myths
https://www.publichealth.org/public-awareness/understanding-vaccines/vaccine-myths-debunked/
*president jackson smithsonian
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/attempted-assassination-andrew-jackson-180962526/

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When president, Andrew Jackson, was exiting a funeral, a gun man pointed a pistol at him, but missed. The would-be assassin was ruled out to be named Richard Lawrence, a house painter, the article states that, Lawrence claimed to be "King Richard III and that Jackson had killed his father." (Para 1) Lawrence, of course, was judged insane and was committed to an Asylum.

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Even though Conspiracy Theories have been around since forever- The week, a magazine with editions in the U.K and the U.S, states that there was a particular one in the 1800's where the president, Andrew Jackson, was involved along with other presidents as well.

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How have Conspiracy theories from the late 1800's , have evolved to shape and influence the way we think of them now, and how it has affected us?