Editing Milton William Cooper (section)

== Radio show ==
From 1992 until his death in November 2001, Cooper originated his radio show, ''The Hour of the Time'' from a studio in his house at the top of a hill in the small [[White Mountains (Arizona)|White Mountains]] town of [[Eagar, Arizona]], 15 miles from the New Mexico border.<ref name="Worthington">{{cite web |last1=Worthington |first1=Rogers |title=Far—Right Info Web: Rumors, Untruths |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-04-26-9504260072-story.html |website=chicagotribune.com |date=April 26, 1995 |publisher=[[The Chicago Tribune]] |access-date=8 June 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Jacobson |first1=Mark |title=The Granddaddy of American Conspiracy Theorists |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=22 August 2018 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/william-cooper-conspiracy-theory-711469/ |access-date=6 August 2019}}</ref> Cooper sent his show via [[audio cassette]], satellite patch, or direct telephone link to [[WWCR]] in Nashville where it was broadcast by the station's 100,000-watt shortwave transmitter.<ref name="Worthington" /><ref name="Griff">{{cite web |last1=Palmer |first1=Griff |title=Conspiracy Theories Flourish on Radical Shortwave Radio |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/article/2500802/conspiracy-theories-flourish-on-radical-shortwave-radio |website=oklahoman.com |date=April 30, 1995 |publisher=[[The Oklahoman]] |access-date=8 June 2021}}</ref> [[Mark Potok]], spokesman for the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]], said Cooper was well known within the militia movement for his anti-government [[shortwave radio]] program. Oklahoma City bomber [[Timothy McVeigh]] was reportedly a fan.<ref name="Bergmann2018">{{cite book|author=Eirikur Bergmann|title=Conspiracy & Populism: The Politics of Misinformation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pF5qDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA72|year=2018|publisher=Springer International Publishing|isbn=978-3-319-90359-0|pages=72–}}</ref><ref name="LATimes death" /><ref name="Barkun2013">{{cite book|author=Michael Barkun|title=A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rn213R48e2YC&pg=PR11|year= 2013|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-95652-0|pages=11–}}</ref> McVeigh was reported by ''[[The Daily Beast]]'' to have ordered from Cooper a cassette, ''Waco, The Big Lie'', which the radio host marketed. Cooper broadcast conspiracy theories on the [[Waco siege]] in early 1993, which he believed had been the opening battle in a new Civil War. He later participated in the early radio shows of [[Alex Jones]], who was an admirer of his broadcasts.<ref>{{cite news|last=Ling|first=Justin|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-crazy-plan-to-rebuild-waco-compound-gave-us-alex-jones|title=How a Crazy Plan to Rebuild Waco Compound Gave Us Alex Jones|website=The Daily Beast|date=November 29, 2021|access-date=April 19, 2022}}</ref>

On June 28, 2001, commenting on a televised interview of [[Osama bin Laden]] at his hideout in Afghanistan, Cooper claimed that bin Laden would soon be "blamed" for a 'major attack' on a large U.S. city, "but don't you believe it". Immediately after the attacks on [[September 11 attacks|September 11, 2001]], he predicted the U.S. would soon be at war in 'two or maybe three countries'.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/william-cooper-conspiracy-theory-711469/| author=Mark Jacobson| title=The Granddaddy of American Conspiracy Theorists| publisher=Rolling Stone| date=August 22, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Pioneer"/> He began broadcasting the [[World Trade Center controlled demolition conspiracy theories|"controlled demolition" conspiracy theory]] on the day of the attacks, which eventually became a center of [[9/11 conspiracy theories]].<ref name="azcentral2020"/>