Menu
Excerpts
Exhibits
Collections
Originals
Categories
Map
Search
Person
Kathryn Olmsted
Bylines
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
Book
The Newspaper Axis
: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler
Kathryn Olmsted
2022
Related Excerpts
Viewing 1–3 of 3
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
The Magic Thinking of Kennedy-ism
The hero worship of the family of American royalty has a dark side: a tendency toward conspiracism that fits with the MAGA movement.
by
Rick Perlstein
via
The American Prospect
on
December 5, 2024
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
