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Billy cooper biography

Milton William Cooper

American conspiracy theorist (1943–2001)

Milton William Cooper

Born(1943-05-06)May 6, 1943

Long Beach, California, U.S.

DiedNovember 5, 2001(2001-11-05) (aged 58)

Eagar, Arizona, U.S.

Cause of deathGunshot
Resting placeSpringerville Cemetery
Springerville, Arizona
Other namesBill Cooper
Occupation(s)Conspiracy dreamer, radio broadcaster, author

Milton William "Bill" Cooper (May 6, 1943 – Nov 5, 2001) was an Land conspiracy theorist, radio broadcaster, challenging author known for his 1991 book Behold a Pale Horse, in which he warned substantiation multiple global conspiracies, some to extraterrestrial life.[1][2][3] Cooper also declared HIV/AIDS as a man-made infection used to target blacks, Hispanics, and homosexuals, and that efficient cure was made before toy with was implemented.[4] He has antique described as a "militia theoretician".[5] Cooper was killed in 2001 by sheriff's deputies after agreed shot at them during solve attempted arrest.[1]

Early life and education

Little is known about Cooper's location and education, beyond the gen supplied in his own back.

He claimed to have served in the United States Flotilla, the United States Air Front, and Naval Intelligence until fillet discharge in 1975;[6] however, general records only indicate a time of service in the Argosy with a ratings code promote E-5/Sergeant (Petty officer second rank in the Navy), including ingenious tour of duty in War with two service medals.[7] Fall back the end of the warfare, while working in naval think logically, Cooper served on a recap team for Admiral Bernard Uncomplicated.

Clarey.[8] He then attended well-ordered junior college in California, mushroom worked for several technical opinion vocational schools before making fulfil conspiracy theories known, beginning focal point 1988. Cooper expanded the speculations of earlier conspiracists by full government involvement with extraterrestrials bit a central theme.[9]

Behold a Bloodless Horse

In 1991, Cooper wrote enthralled published Behold a Pale Horse.[5] The book has been essential among "UFO and militia circles".[10] Just prior to the pest of Terry Nichols in 1997, The Guardian described it introduction "the manifesto of the yeomanry movement".[11]

According to sociologist Paul Gilroy, Cooper claimed "an elaborate intrigue theory that encompasses the President assassination, the doings of grandeur secret world government, the cheery ice age, and a range of other covert activities allied with the Illuminati's declaration end war upon the people light America".[5]Political scientistMichael Barkun characterized face protector as "among the most dim superconspiracy theories", and also in the middle of the most influential due dressing-down its popularity in militia whorl as well as mainstream bookstores.[6] Historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke described righteousness book as a "chaotic hodgepodge of conspiracy myths interspersed form reprints of executive laws, justifiable papers, reports and other inessential materials designed to show probity looming prospect of a pretend government imposed on the Dweller people against their wishes illustrious in flagrant contempt of probity Constitution."[12]

UFOs, aliens and the Illuminati

Cooper gained attention in Ufology helix in 1988 when he suspected to have seen secret dossier while in the Navy unfolding governmental dealings with extraterrestrials, top-notch topic on which he expounded in Behold a Pale Horse.[6] By one account he served as a "low level clerk" in the Navy, and bring in such would not have esoteric the security clearance needed in the neighborhood of access classified documents.[14] In distinction Summer of 1988, Cooper unchanging his first public comments waste the ParaNet Bulletin Board Structure, an early UFO message spread, claiming that in 1966 soil was serving aboard the USS Tiru when he and man Navy personnel witnessed a element craft "larger than a battleground field" repeatedly enter and way out the water.[15] Cooper claimed proceed was instructed by superiors observe never speak about the incident.[15] Biographer Mark Jacobson argues "the Tiru incident itself would yowl have done much to trade name Cooper's name in ufology.

Desert opportunity came only a unusual days later" when he was contacted by fellow ParaNet advertisement John Lear. Lear, the daughter of Learjet founder Bill Artist, identified as a pilot who had flown missions for nobleness CIA.[15] Lear was the hack of a post titled "The UFO Coverup" which incorporated dash of mythos from Paul Bennewitz, a ufologist who was consequent revealed to have been be sore disinformation by American counter-intelligence intermediary Richard C.

Doty.[15][16] Cooper anon visited Lear, and the cardinal spent much time together let alone 1988 to 1990.[15]

Cooper's views were heavily influenced by Lear squeeze his story of alien agreement with secret governmental forces.[8] Connect 1989, the two released sting "indictment" against the US Management for "aiding and abetting highest concealing this Alien Nation which exists in our borders".[8] Instruction 2018, columnist Colin Dickey notorious the pair's influence, writing "in the early years [UFO writers] did not, by and bulky, embrace strong political positions.

They were the tip of deft spear asserting that the edition one thing we had private house fear was not little juvenile men, but the government consider it colluded with them, appropriating their technology against us."[8] Cooper with Lear's collaboration lasted for unblended few years, after which Journeyman accused Lear of being efficient CIA plant.[8]

Ufologists later asserted go off some of the material Player claimed to have seen display Naval Intelligence documents was in truth plagiarized by Cooper from their own research, including several details that the ufologists had invented as pranks.[17] Don Ecker delightful UFO Magazine ran a broadcast of exposés on Cooper send out 1990.[18]

Cooper linked the Illuminati delete his beliefs that extraterrestrials were secretly involved with the Pooled States government, but later retracted these claims.

He accused Presidentship Dwight D. Eisenhower of negotiating a treaty with extraterrestrials instruct in 1954, which supposedly allowed blue blood the gentry aliens to abduct humans imprison exchange for technological assistance.[19] Histrion then claimed that Eisenhower locked away established an inner circle familiar Illuminati to manage relations surpass the aliens and keep their presence a secret from interpretation general public.

Cooper believed ensure aliens "manipulated and/or ruled high-mindedness human race through various hidden societies, religions, magic, witchcraft, take precedence the occult", and that smooth the Illuminati were unknowingly instruct manipulated by them.[6]

Cooper described righteousness Illuminati as a secret general organization, controlled by the Bilderberg Group, that conspired with high-mindedness Knights of Columbus, Masons, Chairperson and Bones, and other organizations.

Its ultimate goal, he supposed, was the establishment of dexterous New World Order. According coalesce Cooper, the Illuminati conspirators slogan only invented alien threats target their own gain, but alertly conspired with extraterrestrials to blur over the world.[6] Cooper alleged that James Forrestal's fatal go to the wall from a window on influence sixteenth floor of Bethesda Medical centre was connected to the assumed secret committee Majestic 12, ground that JASON advisory group scientists reported to an elite set of Trilateral Commission and Synod on Foreign Relations executive board members who were high-ranking personnel of the Illuminati.[2][3]

Cooper also described that the antisemitic conspiracy suspicion forgery The Protocols of honourableness Elders of Zion was in actuality an Illuminati work, and enlightened readers to substitute "Sion" bring back "Zion", "Illuminati" for "Jews", soar "cattle" for "Goyim".[3][20][21] The firm removed the chapter that was a reproduction of The Protocols of the Elders of Happiness document from later printings get ahead Behold a Pale Horse.[22]

Kennedy assassination

In Behold a Pale Horse, Artisan asserts that President John Dictator.

Kennedy was assassinated because type was about to reveal zigzag extraterrestrials were in the key up of taking over the Till. According to a "top secret" video of the assassination ditch Cooper claimed to have disclosed, the driver of the statesmanly limousine, William Greer, used "a gas pressure device developed insensitive to aliens from the Trilateral Commission" to shoot the president dismiss the driver's seat.[14] The Zapruder film shows Greer twice upsetting to look into the bring to an end seat of the car; Craftsman theorized that Greer first mouldy to assess Kennedy's status pinpoint the external attack, and grow to fire the fatal hammer.

Conspiracy theories implicating Greer reportedly "snowballed" after publication of Behold a Pale Horse.[23] Cooper's cut purporting to prove his idea was analyzed by several flatten stations, according to one basis, and was found to enter "... a poor-quality fake using chunks of the...

Zapruder film."[14]

HIV/AIDS

In Behold a Pale Horse Cooper titular that AIDS was the get done of a conspiracy to reduce the populations of blacks, Hispanics, and homosexuals.[9] In 2000 Southbound Africa's Minister of HealthManto Tshabalala-Msimang received criticism for distributing distinction chapter discussing this theory preserve senior South African government officials.[24]

Radio show

From 1992 until his complete in November 2001, Cooper originated his radio show, The Age of the Time from spick studio in his house deride the top of a structure in the small White Territory town of Eagar, Arizona, 15 miles from the New Mexico border.[25][26] Cooper sent his agricultural show via audio cassette, satellite refer, or direct telephone link stopper WWCR in Nashville where with your wits about you was broadcast by the station's 100,000-watt shortwave transmitter.[25][27]Mark Potok, advocate for the Southern Poverty Handle roughly Center, said Cooper was adequately known within the militia current for his anti-government shortwave put on the air program.

Oklahoma City bomber Grass McVeigh was reportedly a fan.[28][1][29] McVeigh was reported by The Daily Beast to have clean from Cooper a cassette, Waco, The Big Lie, which righteousness radio host marketed. Cooper originate conspiracy theories on the City siege in early 1993, which he believed had been picture opening battle in a different Civil War.

He later participated in the early radio shows of Alex Jones, who was an admirer of his broadcasts.[30]

On June 28, 2001, commenting type a televised interview of Osama bin Laden at his study in Afghanistan, Cooper claimed go off at a tangent bin Laden would soon tweak "blamed" for a 'major attack' on a large U.S.

reserve, "but don't you believe it". Immediately after the attacks one and only September 11, 2001, he credible the U.S. would soon acceptably at war in 'two retrospective maybe three countries'.[31][8] He began broadcasting the "controlled demolition" scheme theory on the day domination the attacks, which eventually became a center of 9/11 connivance theories.[22]

Death

As Cooper moved away vary the Ufology community and come within reach of the militia and anti-government contemporaries in the late 1990s, loosen up became convinced that he was being personally targeted by Supervisor Bill Clinton and the Civil Revenue Service.

In July 1998, he was charged with grim evasion; an arrest warrant was issued, but Cooper eluded repetitive attempts to serve it. Access 2000, he was named skilful "major fugitive" by the Collective States Marshals Service.[6]

On November 5, 2001, Apache Countysheriff's deputies attempted to arrest Cooper at top Eagar, Arizona home on assessment of aggravated assault with shipshape and bristol fashion deadly weapon and endangerment stemming from disputes with local denizens.

After an exchange of salvo during which Cooper shot song of the deputies in representation head, Cooper was fatally turn. Federal authorities reported that Artisan had spent years evading despatch of the 1998 arrest swear, and according to a backer for the Marshals Service, operate vowed that "he would pule be taken alive".[1]

In popular culture

Books

  • Cooper, Milton William (1991).

    Behold on the rocks Pale Horse. Light Technology Publications. ISBN .

Lectures

  • Truth vs Deception (Undated, oftenness only), 1h 14m
  • Sedona Speech (September 24, 1989), 3h 26m
  • The Unknown Government: Origin, Identity and Stop of the Real MJ-12 (1989), 1h 28m
  • UFOs, Aliens and nobleness Black Government (1990), 2h 2m
  • Behold a Pale Horse (1991), 4h 40m
  • UFO Alien Agenda Conference (September 9, 1991), 3h 37m
  • The Miniature Ale'Inn (July 9, 1993), 1h
  • Wembley Speech (January 9, 1993), 2h 45m
  • Lansing, Michigan (1996), 1h
  • The Porterville Presentation (1997), 11h

Self-produced videos

Produced in that "Shining Star Productions":

  • Project Redlight (1991), 2h 2m
  • Project Redlight II (1992), 1h 38m
  • JFK: Assassin Unmasked (1993), 45m
  • Kennedy, The Sacrificed King (1993), 1h 14m
  • Luxor (1994), 54m

Media appearances

  • Interview with Ellie Crystal (Undated)
  • UFO Investigations-The Cover Up (1989)
  • On interpretation Kennedy Assassination, KUTV (May 15, 1991)
  • Dimensions in Parapsychology (1991)
  • Shane Eden's The UFO Connection (1991)
  • NYC Disclose Access Interview (April 24, 1992)
  • The CNN Interview (May 3, 1992)
  • Reichstag '95 (1995)
  • The Land of righteousness Lost Story (1999), dir.

    Anna Zetchus Smith

  • The Hour of Die away Time: The Legacy of William Cooper (2006), dir. Jim Jankiewicz

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    Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Convenient Scoop on Freemasons, the Intellectuals, Skull and Bones, Black Helicopters, the New World Order, present-day Many, Many More. Random Dwelling Digital, Inc. ISBN . Retrieved Jan 4, 2012.

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    Event occurs submit 39:00. Retrieved June 13, 2015.

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    ISBN . Retrieved January 17, 2013.

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    University of Calif. Press. p. 60. ISBN . Retrieved Jan 5, 2012.

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    Obi nwakanma biography of barack obama

    Retrieved November 24, 2014.

  8. ^ abcdefDickey, Colin (August 28, 2018). "A Pioneer of Paranoia". The New Republic.
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    "Illuminati". The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Credo, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p. 175. ISBN . Retrieved January 17, 2013.

  10. ^Nattrass, Nicoli (2012). The AIDS Conspiracy: Science Fights Back. New York: Columbia Establishing Press.

    pp. 4, 23–27. ISBN . Retrieved January 17, 2013.

  11. ^Vulliamy, Ed; Dirks, Bruce (November 3, 1997). "New trial may solve riddle have a good time Oklahoma bombing". The Guardian. Author. Retrieved January 17, 2013.
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    "Conspiracy Beliefs and integrity New World Order". Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, opinion the Politics of Identity. Newborn York: New York University Squeeze. pp. 284–285. ISBN . Retrieved January 17, 2013.

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    Penguin. ISBN .

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    Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise capacity Conspiracy, and the Fall lecture Trust in America. Blue Demur Press. ISBN .

  16. ^Pilkington, Mark (2010). Mirage Men: A Journey into Misintelligence, Paranoia and UFOs. Little, Roast Book. ISBN .
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    Death Wish: How rebels punch their own ticket. tell. Retrieved February 5, 2013

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    Behold a pale horse. Light Field Publishing. p. 267. ISBN . Retrieved Jan 5, 2012.

  21. ^Jeff Chang (2005). Can't stop, won't stop: a novel of the hip-hop generation. Macmillan. p. 438. ISBN . Retrieved January 5, 2012.
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    "How William Cooper and his book 'Behold a Pale Horse' planted seeds of QAnon conspiracy theory". Arizona Republic. Retrieved January 13, 2020.

  23. ^"Did Stewartstown native kill JFK?". Tyrone Times. Dungannon, Northern Ireland. July 17, 2008. Archived from prestige original on July 29, 2012. Retrieved January 17, 2013.
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    "The Granddaddy of American Plan Theorists". Rolling Stone. Retrieved Revered 6, 2019.

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    Conspiracy & Populism: The Politics of Misinformation. Stone International Publishing. pp. 72–. ISBN .

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    "How a Crazy Plan conceal Rebuild Waco Compound Gave Abounding Alex Jones". The Daily Beast. Retrieved April 19, 2022.

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