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#NeverRemember: Residents pillory 'Bowling Green Massacre'

CNN visited the residents of Bowling Green, Kentucky, to see how they were commemorating a massacre that never happened.

Residents of Bowling Green, Kentucky, have laughed of the massacre that didn't happen.

Residents of Bowling Green, Kentucky, have laughed of the massacre that didn't happen. Source: CNN

Last week Trump Administration spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway received relentless mocking after blasting the media for not covering "the Bowling Green massacre", a terror attack which never actually occurred.

Ms Conway later corrected herself, claiming she misspoke, although it was at least the third time she had referenced the attack when speaking with reporters.

The incident she was referring to involved the 2009 discovery of two Iraqi terrorists living as refugees in Bowling Green, prompting the government to slow Iraqi refugee admissions to a crawl for six months in 2011.


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