Richard Popkin

Richard Henry Popkin (December 27, 1923 - April 14, 2005) was an American philosopher with an academic focus on skepticism and the history of philosophy.

In the area of conspiratology, Popkin was skeptical of the Warren Commission's findings, and wrote a book called The Second Oswald (1966), in which he argued that Lee Harvey Oswald was impersonated by some unknown actor in the weeks and months prior to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Some nine years later, in 1975, Popkin wrote a memo to President Gerald Ford stating that he had documents "indicating that U.S. intelligence agencies had a laboratory producing robot murderers (Manchurian Candidates) and that at least one of them took part in the assassination of John F. Kennedy," and further that the "programmer of this robot murderer" was then at large.[R]

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 * &mdash; included in Russell's On the Trail of the JFK Assassins: A Groundbreaking Look at America's Most Infamous Conspiracy (2008)