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Ed Begley, Jr.?

Proving that New York is all things to all people, The Villager reports that Sept. 11 conspiracy theorists gathered just miles from Ground Zero last week to discuss unmanned drones and CIA plots:

Actor Ed Begley, Jr., hosted a succession of speakers and panels of little-known authors, reporters and documentary filmmakers who treated the capacity crowd to five hours of juicy details. Attendees bought self-published tomes, commemorative T-shirts and documentary DVDs that promised to once and for all indict, convict and hang a White House administration they say stole the presidency, laid demolition charges in the trade towers and launched an unmanned drone aircraft at the Pentagon.

The quirkier attendees bandied their laser beam theories amid serious discussions of puffs of smoke seen emanating from small explosion points or “squibs” on the towers as evidence of controlled demolition; video clips of New York firefighters describing successive explosions they heard in the buildings’ cores that preceded the pancake collapse; an interview with W.T.C. leaseholder Larry Silverstein interpreted as an admission that he authorized the demolition of W.T.C. 7 and enough slow-motion footage of unidentified explosions just before the planes hit the towers to numb the Warren Commission.

But more importantly, who knew Ed Begley, Jr. (St. Elsewhere, Six Feet Under, among other things) was part of the tinfoil-hat brigade?

Posted: September 28th, 2004 | Filed under: Cultural-Anthropological
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