Belief in conspiracy theories has become a topic of interest for sociologists, psychologists and experts in folklore since at least the 1960s, when the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy eventually provoked an unprecedented public response directed against the official version of the case as expounded in the Report of the Warren Commission.

A case which has provoked an unusual amount of comment in the academic literature is Mozart's scatological humour.

Baird's case provoked common resentment among a large group of people, who flooded the United States Congress and radio programs demanding to know how Clinton could name as the nation's senior law officer a woman who had ignored the law.

The historical melodrama La Tour de Nesle ( 1954 ) was his first film in colour, and it provoked some revival of interest in his work, with critics such as François Truffaut making the case for Gance as a neglected auteur of genius.

The case provoked outrage that did not subside when Steinberg was released from prison in 2004 after serving 15 years.

The Freedom Rides, and the violent reactions they provoked, prompted Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to confront the Interstate Commerce Commission with its failure to enforce a bus desegregation ruling it had handed down in 1955, Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company, 64 MCC 769 ( 1955 ) as well as the companion train desegregation case, NAACP v. St. Louis-Santa Fe Railway Company, 297 ICC 335 ( 1955 ).

Manningham-Buller's handling of the case later provoked questions in the House of Commons.

The plan provoked bitter opposition both locally and nationally and was seen as a test case for other attempts to build on AONB land.

New Jersey prosecutors said that they would not try Rubin ( Hurricane ) Carter and John Artis a third time for a triple-murder in a case that provoked national attention over charges that the authorities had framed both men.

In the case of a cut to the head, it is the referee's responsibility of taking the injured boxer to a medical doctor seated at ringside as many times as the referee thinks necessary, regardless of the referee's decision of the cut being provoked by a punch or not.

The case continued to receive minor attention until the conclusion of the second trial and the imposition of the death penalty on 6 May 2004, which provoked a major reaction, and worldwide television coverage.

This provoked a political crisis, and controversy about whether the national government of France should use its exceptional power to call for new elections in a local government, in case of a grave political crisis.

Speculation was heavy that Clapper's punishment would be severe, but Campbell himself pleaded Clapper's case, stating that he felt he had provoked the Bruin into the blow ; Clapper received only a $ 100 fine for the incident.

Not surprisingly, the Sabbatino case provoked an uproar in the U. S. Congress.

Murray's case provoked several public protests of Earle's office and at the Texas State Capitol from her detention in 1996 until her release in 1999, when the case was reviewed.

They have already been interdicted, a step only taken when an individual “ faces serious offences for which ' criminal proceedings or proceedings for his dismissal or reduction in rank are being contemplated '.” The case has provoked comment from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong who has promised that if the men are guilty of any kind of misconduct, they will be punished.

Gathering cigar butts on board the ship before disembarking in Australia, he distributed them to his friends claiming it was the one given to him by the Prince of Wales ; he asked the recipients not to tell others in case it provoked jealousy.

Author Bob Hill wrote a book on the case called Double Jeopardy, which became a bestseller and provoked widespread interest in the case.

The Shah Bano case ( 1985 – 86 ) provoked a political firestorm in India when the Supreme Court ruled that Shah Bano, a Muslim woman who had been divorced by her husband in 1978 was entitled to receive alimony from her former husband under Indian law applicable for all Indian women.

William Ewart Gladstone's report on the inhumane conditions in Neapolitan detention facilities ( 1851 ), emphasizing the case of Poerio, provoked an international uproar ; nonetheless, Poerio was set free only in 1858.

They seem to be intelligent creatures and are passive and helpful unless provoked, in which case they can be extremely lethal.

Goebbels told Hitler that " spontaneous " anti-Jewish violence had already broken out in German cities, although in fact this was not true: this was a clear case of Goebbels manipulating Hitler for his own ends.

Some leading members of the Church of Ireland and the Jewish Community said during the campaign that while they appreciated the Article's recognition of their existence ( and in the case of the Jewish Community, their right to exist, in contrast to anti-Jewish laws in other states ) in 1937, it was no longer needed in the 1970s and had lost its usefulness.

However, when Nutting telephoned Prime Minister Anthony Eden to press the case, Eden angrily told Nutting that " I will not allow you to plunge this country into war merely to satisfy the anti-Jewish spleen of you people in the Foreign Office ".

Shops owned by Muslims had ' Muslim ' written on them, so they would not be damaged in the case of anti-Jewish riots.

Trachtenberg always took an active interest in the affairs of the Jewish community of St. Petersburg, and in 1891 devoted much time and energy to the case of the Starodub Jews, who were victims of the anti-Jewish riots.

Further convoluting the case is the possible role of propaganda in the surviving accounts: Attalus was executed in Alexander's consolidation of power after the murder ; one might wonder if his enrollment among the conspirators was not for the effect of introducing political expediency in an otherwise messy purge ( Attalus had publicly declared his hope that Alexander would not succeed Philip, but rather that a son of his own niece Eurydice, recently married to Philip and brutally murdered by Olympias after Philip's death, would gain the throne of Macedon ).

The English East India Company published an extensive pamphlet in 1631, setting out its case against the Dutch VOC, and this was used for anti-Dutch propaganda during the First Anglo-Dutch War.

As well, the wars with Philip of France and James of Majorca furnished material for new sirventesos and during this period the sirventes was converted into a convenient tool of political propaganda in which each side could, directly or allegorically, present its case and procure sympathy propitious to its cause.

But soon Voltaire saw the case as much more than religious propaganda.

In the passus summaries in the second and third editions, Crowley emphasizes material in the poem warning of political instability and widespread corruption when the king is a child ( as was then the case ); hardly state-sponsored propaganda.

The verdict was strongly criticised by Western human rights organisations, including Amnesty International and Helsinki Watch, which claimed that the case was based on " communist propaganda ", and the accused were not charged with either using or advocating violence.

McClellan stopped short of saying that Bush purposely lied about his reasons for invading Iraq, writing that the administration was not " employing out-and-out deception " to make the case for war in 2002, though he did assert the administration relied on an aggressive " political propaganda campaign " to sell the Iraq war.

In any case, neither the Mesha inscription nor the Books of Kings were written as objective history, both were intended as propaganda for their respective gods, Kings to glorify Yahweh the God of Israel, and the stele to glorify Mesha and Kemosh the god of Moab.

The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America " lists MEMRI as promoting Islamophobic propaganda in the USA through supplying selective translations that are relied upon by several organisations " to make the case that Islam is inherently violent and promotes extremism.

Historian Walter LaFeber criticized the book Manufacturing Consent for overstating its case, in particular with regards to reporting on Nicaragua and not adequately explaining how a powerful propaganda system would let military aid to the Contra rebels be blocked.

It involved the novelization of " a famous fraud case involving two Jewish financiers in the nineteen twenties " which, because of its potential as propaganda, was supported by the government and had eased pressure on him as he worked on other, more sincere projects.

He described American propaganda by saying " Our effort was educational and informative throughout, for we had such confidence in our case as to feel that no other argument was needed than the simple, straightforward presentation of facts.

As directed by CIA case officers, from Florida, right-wing student groups successfully conducted internal propaganda, such as publishing El combate ( The Combat ), a weekly political pamphlet, covering walls and buses with the number 32 — referring to Article 32 of the Guatemalan Constitution, which forbade foreign-financed political parties ; the propaganda claims received much attention from the local and the national press.

Political propaganda on the walls of the river, in this case a failed presidential candidate Leonardo Farkas

Egale successfully lobbied the federal government to add “ sexual orientation ” to the Canadian Human Rights Act to protect lesbians, gays and bisexuals from discrimination ; lent support to many provincial and territorial efforts to have equal rights enshrined in legislation across the country ; lobbied the Government to introduce more severe penalties for those convicted of gay-bashing and other hate crimes ; supported the addition of “ sexual orientation ” to the grounds covered by hate propaganda legislation ; intervened in the Nixon case to support the rights of transgendered people.

On the day of the coup, the public prosecutor opened a case against the Workers ' Party of Turkey for carrying out communist propaganda and supporting Kurdish separatism.

From 1904 to 1905 Suematsu was sent by the Japanese cabinet to Europe to counteract anti-Japanese propaganda of the Yellow Peril variety and argue Japan's case in the Russo-Japanese War, much as Harvard-educated Kaneko Kentarō was doing at the request of Itō Hirobumi at the same time in the USA.

Brewers and publicans formed defence committees to fight temperance propaganda, and publicans became unwilling to spend money on improvements to their premises in case the district went " dry ".

The Maglakelidze case was widely exploited by the Soviet propaganda as an example of the state ’ s lenient treatment of a " re-defector " and in an effort to discredit the Caucasian political emigration.

The prosecution in this case made every effort to connect this murder with the charges against the Sydney IWW men, which provided propaganda in the prosecution of the Sydney Twelve.

The first 4 impeachment articles charge the president with illegally creating a case for war with Iraq, including charges of a propaganda campaign, falsely representing Iraq as responsible for 9 / 11, and falsely representing Iraq as an imminent danger to the United States.

Although Goebbels did not generally take an active role in the production of particular films, he elected to do so in the case of major propaganda films such as The Eternal Jew.

In Metaxas ' case we can speak as well of some characteristics typical of authoritarian states such as 1930s Spain, Portugal, Germany and Italy: the regime's propaganda presented Metaxas as " the First Peasant ", " the First Worker " and as " the National Father " of the Greeks.