Not entirely sure.
There seems to be a pattern recognition malfunction that takes place. "Conspiracies" happen all the time (i.e. people lie, governments have covert programs, office politics, etc.) and people seem to want to avoid being naive about the "real" reasons and cause for significant events like 9/11 or the Kennedy assassination.
It might just help to resolve cognitive dissonance between (a) powerful forces (like the gov't) are generally in solid control, pulling a lot of strings and not being entirely up front about it and (b) major stuff happens that the gov't couldn't/didn't prevent.
"real" reasons and cause for significant events like 9/11 or the Kennedy assassination.
Also in both the examples above the official explanation is politically inconvenient for a lot of people. For example, people like to think of JFK as a left wing martyr, thus him being killed by a communist is rather inconvenient to this narrative.
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