Hicks was one of the most influential comedians who ever lived. Gone at 32 in 1994.
Tool sampled him. Radiohead dedicated The Bends to him.
But long before the internet made conspiracy research more mainstream, Hicks was on stage in front of live audiences talking about the Warren Commission, the grassy knoll, and the idea that the official story on JFK was something no thinking person should accept at face value.
He was funny about it. He was also deadly serious about it.
Back in the day I bought a VHS of him walking in the ashes of the Waco siege giving commentary on what happened there with the Branch Davidians.
This interview was filmed in a bar in the early nineties after a gig in America by two apparent English television producers. It was never broadcast. The footage sat on VHS for thirty years and has just been released in full for the first time.
He covers veing censored, televangelists, passion and anger, media manipulation, censorship, and why he refused to compromise his views for fame or money.
Posted by SolidAbbreviations69
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I’m posting tis to r/conspiracy because Bill Hicks was talking about government cover-ups, the JFK assassination, and media manipulation to live audiences in the early nineties, long before any of this became mainstream conversation. He went to Waco and made a DIY documentary about it. He’s in the conversation, hell, he started some of the conversations.
New Bill Hicks? Never thought I’d see the day. Thank you for this.