Hunt vs Liberty Lobby
Hunt vs. Liberty Lobby was a high-profile libel case in the 1980s involving E. Howard Hunt, a CIA officer linked to the JFK assassination, and the Liberty Lobby, a right-wing organization. The case took a strange turn when the jury ruled in favor of the Liberty Lobby, implying that the organization’s claims of Hunt’s involvement in the assassination were not defamatory because they could not be proven false. This outcome fueled further conspiracy theories about CIA involvement in JFK’s death and the possibility of government-sanctioned cover-ups.