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Brian Chase (age 38 as of 2005), was the operations manager of a small delivery company in Nashville, Tennessee who has inadvertently made himself famous by posting a hoax on Misplaced Pages, the world's largest encyclopedia.

This hoax was reported in the New York Times for Sunday, December 11, 2005.

In this hoax, Brian Chase, posting anonymously, wrote material suggesting that John Seigenthaler Sr., a former editor of The Tennessean in Nashville, had been involved in the assassinations of both John and Robert Kennedy.

The hoax was reported in USA Today. The source of the hoax was uncovered by Daniel Brandt, who used an IP Locator to track down Mr. Chase. Chase said he had done it as a joke to amuse a colleague when they found out anyone could edit Misplaced Pages. Subsequently Daniel Brandt has tried to get the Misplaced Pages article about himself deleted from Misplaced Pages.

Further information: John Seigenthaler Sr. Misplaced Pages biography controversy

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  1. Katharine Q. Seelye (December 11, 2005), "A Little Sleuthing Unmasks Writer of Misplaced Pages Prank," The New York Times

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