Magneto Killed JFK (According to This New X-Men Promo Campaign)

Well here’s a ballsy move: a new multimedia campaign to promote the upcoming X-Men sequel Days of Future Past gives us the GTFO headline “JFK and the mutant conspiracy” and a “trailer” explaining how bad guy Magneto was responsible for the President’s assassination 50 years ago last week:

The big-budget stunt plays off both the media coverage of the event’s anniversary and the conspiracy theories that a majority of Americans still believe.

But it also risks stirring a little outrage by exploiting a national tragedy that inspires powerful feelings in people who weren’t even alive in 1963.

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