The Manchurian Candidate (October 24, 1962)

This may be one of those Mandela Effects: I was certain that I had seen this film when it first came out, but I would have been only 12 years old, so I don’t think so. As a political thriller/conspiracy theory, you couldn’t ask for a scarier idea than a brainwashed American soldier who is programmed to shoot someone without memory or guilt. Because it was based on psychiatric methods used during the Korean War, we can only speculate as to where this idea came from.

MK Ultra (April 13, 1953)

Well, maybe it’s not such a stretch of the imagination, after all.

*Nudge, nudge, wink, wink*. Say no more, say no more.

The film came out one year and one month before the assassination of JFK.

And if you thought that it was only a coincidence, check out these two charts, combined. Then these three:

End of story.