History is such a fascinating, ever-changing thing. And it's told by the WINNERS.
The random dirty hippie, claiming in 1968 that Vietnam was started on purpose on a lie, well they were mocked as conspiracy theorists.
Decades later, declassified documents showed indeed, it was a "middle mgmt paperwork error" and that the US had NOT been fired upon at the Gulf of Tonken. That dirty hippie was right.
Any of us, myself included, that thinks we "know" what has happened in modern history (because we saw it on the TV) is a damn fool... myself included.
Wait 50 years, and as more and more things become declassified, we learn the things we live by today are complete lies. It's no biggie... doesn't affect us all that much, to be honest, who started this war, which bad guys were killed, etc - we're just tools watching TV and nodding and cheering and nothing else. Still, history is fascinating.