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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => History => Topic started by: TomSea on May 24, 2019, 04:24:20 pm
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Was George S. Patton Murdered? New Light on an Old Conspiracy
by Peter Cross
When one thinks about the major conspiracy theories of the post-World War II era, one is drawn to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and Senator Robert F. Kennedy. However, there is one incident that happened at the end of World War II that has been given little or no notice by historians since it occurred more than 60 years ago.
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That event is the mysterious death of George S. Patton, Jr., one of the most famous generals in U.S. military history. The life of George Patton was brought to the big screen in the blockbuster 1970 movie Patton, starring George C. Scott, which told his story to a mass audience. Another movie based on the circumstances surrounding the death of Patton was Brass Target, based on Frederick Nolan’s novel The Algonquin Project. The theme of Brass Target is that there was a vast conspiracy to kill Patton, part of which was the auto accident that he was involved in after the war.
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Was he? I don't know but my parents who were in Hungary at the time said it was believed by many of the people in Europe that he was.
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He did want to go kick some Ruskies azz, all the way to Moscow, proving that he could do what Napoleon and Hitler failed to do and Truman was having none of that.
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I'm not saying he wasn't, but the theorists need to come up with better motives than "his superiors were mad at him" or "the Russians were afraid he was going to attack them".