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  • The year everything changed

    In 1966 the counterculture that had been percolating through the Beat culture for over a decade suddenly spilled over into teenagers all across America. The first indication a new culture was emerging was the proliferation of garage bands, which were soon populated by longhaired “freaks,” very few of whom identified as hippies until much later…

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  • The origins of hip hop

    Hip hop culture was born in the Bronx and incubated for nearly a decade before being discovered by a young journalist who had just arrived from the Midwest. After writing the first positive article on graffiti in the New York Daily News, the journalist was fired and spent the next five years working as a…

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  • Lincoln’s assassination was an inside job

    What the history books don’t tell you is that John Wilkes Booth was a Confederate intelligence officer working on a plot to kidnap Lincoln so he could be taken to Richmond and held for ransom to free all the Confederate prisoners being held in a massive camp outside Chicago. This plot involved coordination with Col.…

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  • JFK assassination has been solved

    It was in inside job carried out by a rouge CIA station south of Miami working with the Sicilian men-of-honor and a group of Cuban mercenaries who had just been fired from that same CIA station. But it could not and would not have been so massively covered up if it had not been sanctioned…

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