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Michael Barkun
A Culture of Conspiracy
Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America

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UFO Conspiracy Theories, 1975-1990

Immediately after the Oklahoma City bombing in the spring of 1995,
mainstream Americans suddenly became aware of a radical political subculture
in their midst. With the arrest of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols and the
media coverage of their lives, attitudes, and associations, the public was
abruptly introduced to the previously insular world of militias,
antigovernment shortwave-radio broadcasts, and racist literature. A racist
novel (written by Andrew Macdonald, also known as William Pierce), The
Turner Diaries-unobtainable through conventional bookstores-became an object
of intense interest once it became known that McVeigh had read and
recommended it, and it was revealed that the novel contained an episode
strikingly similar to the federal building bombing. An avalanche of
television, magazine, and newspaper stories uncovered the existence of
conspiracy believers obsessed with black helicopters and armed against what
they believed to be an imminent invasion by forces of the New World Order.1

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