In order to promote the newest installment in the X-Men franchise, "Days of Future Past," the film has done so with a few interesting viral campaigns including building a fictional website for the company Trask Industries, which created many anti-mutant technologies in the comic books, most notably the mutant hunting robots known as sentinels. Now a new viral video takes a different approach, re-writing history to include mutants, specifically Magneto.
The video, shown below, claims that the metal manipulating mutant Erik Lehnsherr was responsible for the "magic bullet" that struck and killed president John F. Kennedy. The video is meant to be a part of a larger conspiracy website created to promote the upcoming movie. It claims that Magneto was present in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 2963 and manipulated Lee Harvey Oswald's bullet the killed President John F. Kennedy. He was then taken to a maximum security holding area designed to prevent his powers from letting him escape.
The video is part of a new viral site called "The Bent Bullet," a JFK conspiracy site that not only contains the video but an in-depth fictional article outlining the mutant's involvement in the assassination of the 35th President of the United States. The alternative history is extremely well detailed and even covers the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 (A moment IGN notes was depicted in "X-Men: First Class).
"Who manipulated Oswald?" the fake article about the assassination reads. "If not Lehnsherr, then what man put him up there in the Book Depository? Why did Lehnsherr want to kill the president in the first place? Was it because Kennedy created Project: WideAwake, the CIA force that killed Brotherhood of Mutants members Azazel and Tempest earlier that year?" This is another reference to the "First Class" film. It appears "Days of Future Past" will begin with two casualties having already occurred.
Take a look at the website and tell us what you think about this alternate history being created by the new X-Men plotline? Comment and share your thoughts on the Bent Bullet with us below.
