I think that "I hear " + (something that took place about half a century ago), attributed to Herman Cain, needs to become a meme.

I hear that the Warren Commission is going to announce that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
- Herman Cain

I hear that Ford is trying to develop the Mustang.
- Herman Cain

This could work...

"I don't have the facts to back this up, but I hear that it is the mid-1980s. From out of the sky, Soviet & Cuban troops have begun landing on the football field of a Colorado high school. In seconds, the paratroops have attacked the school & sent a group of teenagers fleeing into the mountains. Armed only with hunting rifles, pistols & bows and arrows, the teens struggles to survive the bitter winter & Soviet KGB patrols hunting for them. Eventually trouble arises when they kill a group of Soviet soldiers on patrol in the highlands. Soon, they will wage their own guerrilla warfare against the invading Soviet troops....under the banner of 'Wolverines'!" - Herman Cain

"I hear that along the East German border they've built 836 miles of barbed wire walls, automated machine guns, armed guards, and deadly land mines." - Herman Cain

"I hear that on October 6, 1970 while boarding an international flight out of Istanbul Airport, American Billy Hayes was caught attempting to smuggle 2 kilos of hashish out of the country, the drugs strapped to his body. He was told that he will be released if he cooperates with the authorities in identifying the person who actually sold him the hash. Billy's troubles really began when after that assistance, he makes a run for it and is recaptured. He is initially sentenced to just over four years for possession, with no time for the more harsh crime of smuggling. The prison environment is inhospitable in every sense, with a sadistic prison guard named Hamidou ruling the prison, he who relishes the mental and physical torture he inflicts on the prisoners for whatever reason. Told to trust no one, Billy does befriend a few of the other inmates, namely fellow American Jimmy Booth (in for stealing two candlesticks from a church)."
--Herman Cain

"I hear that while driving through the Arizona desert, Albuquerque based independent trucker Martin Penwald - who goes by the handle "Rubber Duck" - along with his fellow truckers "Pig Pen" and "Spider Mike", are entrapped by unscrupulous Sheriff Lyle "Cottonmouth" Wallace using a key tool of the trucker's trade, the citizens' band (CB) radio. Rubber Duck and Cottonmouth have a long, antagonistic history. When this encounter escalates into a more physical one and Cottonmouth threatens Spider Mike (a man who just wants to get home to his pregnant wife) Rubber Duck and other the truckers go on the run, figuring the best thing to do being to head to New Mexico to avoid prosecution. Along for the ride is Melissa, a beautiful photographer who just wanted a ride to the airport. News of what happened spread over the CB airwaves..."
-- Herman Cain

"I don't have the facts to back this up, but I hear that James Taylor may be pretty cool movie where he's called The Driver and races a muscle car." -- Herman Cain