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Inside Jobs: Moon Landing

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touched down on the surface of the moon in the lunar module Eagle, fulfilling President Kennedy’s challenge of eight years earlier. However, many believe that the government and NASA faked the moon landing on a Hollywood set in order to help win the Cold War. Join Brian, Gene and Lee as they investigate The Moon Landing Hoax on Inside Jobs.

Inside Jobs: On Conspiracy Theories

Within hours of the April 15th Boston Marathon Bombing, social media, independent news outlets and personal blogs were rife with nascent theories about the government’s involvement in this perpetration of a “false flag attack.” Parents of victims in the December Newtown, Conn., school shooting were accused of being “crisis actors.” Fluoridation, Obama’s birth certificate, the 9/11 attacks, the assassination of JFK, the implementation of a New World Order by the Illuminati controlled by the Elders of Zion: it seems that every new public catastrophe is immediately followed by a chorus of voices “just asking questions” about the shadowy nature of the narrative behind the narrative. Why do so many seemingly rational people believe in conspiracies? Join Brian, Gene and Lee as they discuss the social and psychological mechanism of this substantial — and growing — subculture as Inside Jobs investigates The Origin of Conspiracy Theories.

Inside Jobs: RFK Assassination

On June 5, 1968, after winning a make-or-break Democratic primary election in California, Robert Francis Kennedy thanked his supporters at the Ambassador Ballroom before being whisked into the hotel kitchen. Although he was surrounded by campaign staff, an assassin was able to get close to RFK and put three bullets in him, including a fatal head shot. Although 75 eyewitnesses saw the killing, discrepencies remain in the final story, and questions about the identity of second gunmen, as well as the motives of convicted killer Sirhan Sirhan, are unanswered to this day.  Join Brian, Gene and Lee as they investigate The Assasination of RFK on Inside Jobs.

Inside Jobs: Killing Hitler

After a rough childhood and adolescence, which involved losing his father and then mother, living on the streets of Vienna, and serving through World War I, Adolf Hitler joined the Nazi Party and rose to become the undisputed master of that party, and then Germany itself. Hitler’s racist, militaristic Germany started World War II in Europe and devoted itself to wiping out various social and ethnic groups, including Communists and Jews. Although Hitler was wildly popular with certain European groups, he made many enemies, and found himself the target of various assassination plots. On this episode of Inside Jobs, we investigate The Plot to Kill Hitler.

Inside Jobs: Oklahoma Bombing

Did Timothy McVeigh act alone?

Inside Jobs: Jonestown

The infamous Jonestown episode from 2013ish.

Inside Jobs: Lindbergh Kidnapping

On March 1, 1932, famed aviator Charles Lindbergh heard a noise on the upper floor of his East Amwell, New Jersey, home, and climbed the stairs to investigate. He found a makeshift ladder, an envelope and an open window. What he did not find was his 20-month old son, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., whose kidnapping ignited the beginning of a three-year, nationwide manhunt for the person or persons who had taken the child. Local police, federal authorities and private citizens joined the search until eventually German immigrant worker Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested and tried on evidence many think was invented or altered to ensure a swift conviction and subsequent execution. Join Brian, Gene and Lee as they investigate The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping on Inside Jobs.

Inside Jobs: The Assassination of Malcolm X

Malcolm X was a defiant, dominating speaker, activist and leader whose controversial views and actions made him enemies in many quarters. After a hardscrabble youth and time spent in prison, he abandoned his former hustling partners to pursue a righteous path in the Nation of Islam under the leader Elijah Muhammad. His often stark rhetoric attracted followers to the Nation and made many whites as well as blacks uncomfortable, especially those working in the New York Police Department, the FBI and the CIA. After feuding with Muhammad and other Nation leaders like Louis Farrakhan, Malcolm left the organization and began his own, welcoming those of different races and damning the isolationist and rejectionist rhetoric of his past. It was while speaking on these topics on February 21, 1965, that an unknown number of gunmen opened fire on Malcolm X, ending his life at 39. With so many enemies, can we ever know who killed Malcolm X? Join Brian, Gene and Lee as they investigate The Assassination of Malcolm X on Inside Jobs.