The United States of Paranoia (57 page)

Kelly, Michael, 222, 276

Kelly, Richard, 322

Kennedy, John F., 14, 165, 166, 173

assassination of, 9, 10, 13, 26, 167–68, 169, 171, 175–76, 228, 229, 232, 240, 241, 243, 248, 250, 254, 256, 257–59, 345, 346, 420

Kennedy, Joseph P., 176, 228

Kennedy, Robert F., 13–14, 165, 169, 200, 228, 246, 275

Kenny, Kevin, 103

Kerouac, Jack, 75, 359

Kesey, Ken,
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,
220

Kessler, Ronald,
In the President’s Secret Service,
311

Key, Wilson Bryan, 203

Kharoba, Sam, 303

Kilkenny, Allison, 310

King, Martin Luther, 162, 167, 169, 246

King, Rodney, 279, 286

King Philip’s War, 27–28, 29–30, 87

King William’s War, 51

Kinney, Jay, 246–48, 249–50, 283, 401

Killers from Space
(film), 70-71

KGB, 173

Knights Templar, 199, 325

Knopf, Terry Ann, 130

Koch, Charles and David, 132

Konkin, Samuel Edward III, 283

Kopkind, Andrew, 265

Korean War, 74–75, 165

Korzybski, Xandor (pseud.), 296–97, 409

Kotcheff, Ted, 263

Kramer, Stanley, 177

Krassner, Paul, 169, 227–29, 239, 254, 256–57, 337, 394, 401

Krugman, Paul, 308, 312

Ku Klux Klan, 13, 99, 100, 129, 158, 270, 286, 289, 366, 388

Kun, Bela, 198

Kunkin, Art, 240

Kutolowski, Kathleen Smith, 122–23

labor unions, 102–3

Lackomar, Mike, 314–15

LaHaye, Tim, 204

Landes, Richard, 302

Lane, Mark, 171, 175, 219, 220,382, 395

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
(film), 330

LaRouche, Lyndon, 245, 281, 285, 322, 399

Larson, Cedric, 44

Lasky, Victor,
It Didn’t Start with Watergate,
165–66, 167, 381

Lavender Scare, 80–82, 229, 361

LaVey, Anton,
The Satanic Bible,
214, 215

Lawrence, Richard, 3–4,
6

Lawson, John Howard, 201

Lear, Norman, 181

Leary, Timothy, 327, 259, 383

Led Zeppelin, 204

Lee, Ann, 55–56

Lennon, John, 169

Leonardo da Vinci,
The Virgin and Child with St. Anne,
336

Lepore, Jill, 361-62

Lethem, Jonathan, 348

Levin, Ira,
The Stepford Wives
, 178–80

Levine, Robert S., 57, 356

Lewin, Leonard, 230

Lewis, David, 193, 196, 201, 205

Lewis, H. Spencer, 139, 142

libertarians, 236, 283, 304, 310, 398

Liberty Lobby, 200, 230, 285, 388, 395

Liddy, G. Gordon, 319

Lifton, David S., 258

Limbaugh, Rush, 308

Lincoln, Abraham, 5–8, 240, 344, 345

Lindsey, Hal,
The Late Great Planet Earth,
202

Linklater, Richard, 252, 322

Lippmann, Walter, 21

Little Bighorn, Battle of, 36

Livergood, Norman, 281, 406

Lone Gunmen, The
(TV), 294-95

Lords of the Dark Face, 140

Lords of the Flame, 145

Los Angeles Free Press,
242

Loughner, Jared Lee, 320–22, 323, 416

Louima, Abner, 279

Lovecraft, H. P., 185, 220, 221, 223, 331

Necronomicon, 192, 206

The Shadow Out of Time,
70

lucid dreaming, 322

Luebke, Frederick, 41

Luxemburg, Rosa, 198

MacDonald, Hope,
When Angels Appear,
146

MacDougall, Rob, 336–37

MacMurray, Fred, 180–81, 183

Madison County, Mississippi, 98–99

Mafia, 17, 168, 220, 246, 248, 383–84

magic bullet, wishing for, 318

Mailer, Norman, 238

Malcolm X, 162, 169

Manchester, William, 228

Manchurian Candidate, The
(film), 74–75, 170, 173

Mankind United, 141

Mann Act (1910), 12

Manson, Charles, 171, 172, 188, 201, 216, 229, 256–57, 337, 383

Marchand, Roland, 358-59

Marrs, Texe, 334

Marshall, Josh, 311

Martin, Jim, 284

Martin, Luther, 112

Marx, Karl, 198

Maryland, Catholics and Indians in, 31–32

Masons,
see
Freemasonry

Massachuset tribe, 25

Masters, Robert Augustus, 282

Mather, Cotton, 24, 28, 32, 52

Mather, Increase, 25, 31, 34

Matrix, The
(films), 322, 323–24, 417

Mattachine Society of Washington (MSW), 81

Mavrides, Paul, 246–47, 252

McAlpine, Peter, 244–46, 283

McCarthy, Joseph, 75, 167, 359, 361

McCarthyism, 69, 71, 74–75, 167, 237, 293, 361

McCartney, Paul, 204, 346

McGonigal, Jane, 325–26

McGovern, George, 194, 386

McLaughlin, James, 38–39

McLuhan, Marshall, 389

McParlan, James, 102, 103

McVeigh, Timothy, 277, 279–80, 292

Meagher, Sylvia, 258

Mechanic, The
(film), 383-84

Mede, Joseph, 28

media:

investigative journalism, 166–68, 246–47, 278, 286

misinformation spread by, 45, 131, 211, 212–17, 270, 301, 306, 310–12, 316, 320–21

panic promoted by, 11, 39–40, 210–11, 307–8

Men in Black, 225, 296

Menzies, William Cameron, 359

Mercury Theatre on the Air, The,
19

mesmerism, 58, 61, 72

MetaFilter, 331–32

Michael, George, 45

Mickey One
(film), 172, 176

militia movement, 11, 270, 276, 277–80, 287, 288–92, 294, 304, 313–15, 316

Milius, John, 265

Milk, Harvey, 172

millenarians, 290

Miller, Arthur,
The Crucible,
69

Miller, David Wynn, 321, 416

mind control, 169–71, 255, 259, 284, 358, 385, 416

see also
brainwashing
,
mesmerism
,
mind control

Minutemen (anti-Communist), 14, 219, 220–21, 293, 317

Minutemen (anti-immigrant), 317, 415

Miracle, Lee, 315

Mirage
(film), 173

MKULTRA, 164–65, 170

Mock, James R., 44

Molly Maguires, 102–3

Mondo 2000,
296–97

Monk, Maria,
Awful Disclosures,
35, 57

“Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, The” (TV), 77–79, 173

Moor, Michael, 287, 288

Moore, Alan, 243

Moorish Science Temple, 405

moral panics, 10–12, 101–2

More, Thomas,
Utopia,
134

Morgan, Darin, 295–96

Morgan, William, 121–22, 123

Mormons, 56, 59–67, 142, 190, 205, 270,352, 357, 372

Morrell, David, 262–65, 268, 271

Morris, Dick, 292–93, 408

Morrison, Grant, 219

Morrison, Jim 382-83

Morse, Jedidiah, 118, 201, 370

Morse, Samuel, 370

Moscone, George, 172

Moseley, James, 226, 394

Mothersbaugh, Mark, 252

Motion Picture Production Code, 172, 383

Moulitsas, Markos, 320, 415

Mountain Meadows, Utah, 65

Mount Shasta, 136, 142-43, 377

MOVE, 286

Muhammad, Khalid Abdul, 287

Murder by Decree
(film), 178

Murrell, John, 96–98, 104, 201, 363, 364

music, subliminal messages in, 160, 190–91, 203, 214, 240, 330, 335

Myers, Bill, 148–49

Mystic Clan, 97, 99

My Three Sons
(TV), 180–81, 183

Nathan, Debbie, 212

Nation of Islam, 286, 287, 377

nativists, 34

Navasky, Victor, 230

Nazis, 73, 76, 105, 141, 169, 176, 195, 208, 228, 267, 271, 307, 366, 388

Necronomicon, 192, 206

Neiwert, David, 278, 314

Nelson, John Young, 63

Network
(film), 178

Neumann, Erich, 79

New Age, 138, 142, 282

New Avengers: Illuminati
(comic), 330

Newburgh Conspiracy, 111, 115

New England:

as New Jerusalem, 152–53

witch hunts in, 49–55

New England Confederation, 29

New Hollywood, 172–78

New Left, 159, 162, 163, 165, 171, 261

Newton, Isaac, 151

New World, utopia of, 152

New World Order, 275–76, 277, 286, 313, 329

New York City:

fires in, 85–86, 88–91, 93, 101

slave insurgencies in, 83–92

New York Times, The,
39, 104, 162, 168, 308

New-York Tribune,
7, 39

Nicaraguan Contras, 166, 268, 269, 270

Nichols, James, 279

Nichols, Terry, 279

Night of the Living Dead
(film), 99, 100

Night Moves
(film), 176

9/11, 9, 45, 152, 271, 294, 299–302, 307, 326, 327–28, 333–35, 409,
334

9/11 truth movement, 300, 318, 346, 409, 415

Nipmuc warriors, 30

Nissenbaum, Stephen,
Salem Possessed
, 52

Nixon, Richard M., 10, 161, 164, 165–67, 261–62, 386

enemies list, 163

and Watergate, 24, 163, 166, 172, 174, 254, 261, 319

Noble, Kerry, 208

Noriega, Manuel, 254

Norris, Chuck, 267-68, 403

North, Oliver, 269

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 313

North by Northwest
(film), 173

Notes to Mary, 331–32

Nye, Russel B., 8

Oath Keepers, 313–14

Obama, Barack, 307, 311, 312, 316, 317–20

Odum, Howard, 104

Oklahoma City bombing, 277–78, 279–80, 290, 292, 320

Oklahoma Constitutional Militia, 289

Old Man of the Mountains, 241–42

Oliver, Revilo, 200

Olmsted, Kathryn, 164, 175

Operation CHAOS, 161–62, 171

Operation Mindfuck, 239–48, 326, 398

Order, The, 278, 279

Order of Assassins, 297

Order of the Quest, 134–36, 140, 152

orgone, 236–37

Orwell, George, 221, 248

Osler, Zach, 321

Oswald, Lee Harvey, 168, 232, 254, 257–58, 346, 395

Packard, Vance,
The Hidden Persuaders,
71, 203

Paine, Thomas, 134

Paiute Indians, 37, 64–65

Pakula, Alan J., 173–74

Palin, Sarah, 320, 321, 415

Pappas, Tom, 169

Parallax View, The
(film), 174, 175, 176, 177, 262, 293

paranoia, 8–22

anticult agitation, 213

benevolence as antidote to, 152–53

conspiracies,
see
conspiracy theories

critical-paranoiac method, 336

elite panic, 306–9

fusion, 222, 276, 280–81

Hofstadter’s style of, 9–10, 12–13, 14, 19, 44, 205, 222

imitation of the enemy in, 13, 44, 117

ironic style of, 17, 221–22, 229, 234, 243, 246–49, 254–56, 296–97, 326, 336–37

of minority movements, 9, 10

moral panics, 10–12

use of term, 18–19

Paranoia
, 283

Paranoid Style, The
(game), 336

pareidolia, 335–36

Paris Commune (1871), 103–4

Parker, William, 107, 108

Pasley, Jeffrey, 29

Patriot movement, 278, 313, 316

Patz, Etan, 211

Paul, Ron, 304, 419

Pedrone, Dino, 189, 385-86

Pegler, Westbrook, 75

Pelley, William Dudley, 141, 142, 144, 198, 377

Pendergast, Tom, 165

Penn, Arthur, 172, 176

Pentagon Papers, 163

Peoples Temple, 170–71

Pequot War, 29

Perliger, Arie, 315–17, 414-15

Perlstein, Rick,
Before the Storm,
14

Perot, Ross, 284, 406

Peroutka, Michael, 82

Perron, Steve, 169

Peters, Peter J., 278

PhenomiCon, 284, 328, 407

Philbrick, Herbert, 73–74

Philip, Wampanoag sachem, 25, 26, 29, 30, 32, 34, 36

King Philip’s War, 27–28, 29–30, 87

Phillips, Mark, 333–34

Pike, Otis, 165

“Pine Bluff Variant, The” (TV), 294

Pinkerton Detective Agency, 102

Pipes, Daniel, 131

Pius IX, Pope,
33

Plains Indians, 35–36

Plato,
Republic,
134, 140

Playboy Forum/Advisor, 239, 241–43

Plowman, Edward, 192–93, 194

Plot 49
(game), 325

Poindexter, George, 4

police brutality, 103, 105, 106, 108, 130, 264, 279, 286

Pollack, Sydney, 175

Populists, 12, 140, 199, 200–201, 270, 271, 277, 278–79, 376

Portis, Charles, 375

Posey, Tom, 270

Post, Ted, 267

Potok, Mark, 313, 321, 322

Pound, Ezra, 396

Powers, Tim, 337

POW/MIA rescue genre, 267, 268, 269

pranksters, 222, 227–31

President’s Analyst, The
(film), 173

Presley, Sharon, 398

Principia Discordia,
231–33

Prinze, Freddie, 169

Procter & Gamble, 203

Prodigy, 329–30, 419

pronoia, 136

Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, The,
141, 197, 198, 208–9, 288, 291, 376

Pulling, Pat, 206–7

Puritans:

forsaking the fold, 31

and Indians, 24, 25, 31

and New Jerusalem, 152–53

and witch hunts, 53

Pynchon, Thomas,
The Crying of Lot 49
, 325, 397

Quaker conspiracy, 34

Quarantelli, E. L., 360

Quasi-War (1798–1800), 117

Qautermass
serials (TV), 71, 358

Queenborough, Lady (Miller), 199, 201, 408

Quitman, John, 5

Radio Free America
, 275

Radio Free World,
275

railroads, 124–25

Rambo series, 262–73