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[introspective electronic music]
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- Four United States presidents
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have been assassinated,
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and all four had
something in common.
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Abraham Lincoln, James
Garfield, William McKinley,
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and John F. Kennedy were
the victimized
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Commanders-in-Chief.
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Conventional wisdom is
that Honest Abe
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angered many Southerners
whose economy, in large part,
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revolved around the
legalization of slavery.
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And what could Abraham
Lincoln's murder
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have to do with the
assassination of James Garfield
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17 years later in 1881,
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or the shooting death of
President
William McKinley in 1901?
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And what could possibly
be the common thread
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that connects all three of
these historic leaders' killings
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to the infamous 1963
assassination of John F.
Kennedy?
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After all, Kennedy's
murder was nearly 100 years
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after the Lincoln assassination.
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The beloved JFK was credited
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with highly important
civil rights advancements
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helping black Americans.
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Could this be the linking motive
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between his murder and
Abraham Lincoln's?
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Racial tensions, of course,
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were also raging
during the McKinley
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and Garfield presidencies.
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Were the perpetrators
all fueled by racism?
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There were also grave matters
involving foreign policy
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that angered many Americans
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during each of these presidents'
terms.
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Both Presidents
McKinley and Garfield
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had major international
crises brewing
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right before their
assassinations.
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But also, core to it all,
is one common thread, money.
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Our government, so simply,
is run on the basis of money,
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and how, and who issues
and controls it
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is as much a founding
building block
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as the First and
Fourth Amendments.
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Mayor Amschel Rothschild
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of the powerful banking house
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of Rothschild and Sons
infamously said,
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- [Amschel] "Give me the
power to create
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"a nation's money, and I
care not who makes its laws."
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- President Lincoln,
President Garfield,
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President McKinley, and
President Kennedy
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all died for the same reason.
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And it has something to
do with money.
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[eerie piano music]
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There are many odd
similarities and eerie facts
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that join together the Lincoln
and Kennedy assassinations.
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Some are widely known,
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others are rather obscure.
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Of course, everyone knows
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that Abraham Lincoln
was assassinated
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by John Wilkes Booth,
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and John F. Kennedy was
murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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- [Narrator] John Wilkes
Booth was born in 1839,
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Lee Harvey Oswald was
born in 1939.
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After shooting Lincoln,
Booth ran from a theater
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and was caught in a warehouse.
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Oswald ran from a warehouse
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and was caught in a theater.
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Booth was killed before his
trial, and so was Oswald.
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Abraham Lincoln was first
elected to Congress in 1846.
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John F. Kennedy was elected
to Congress in 1946.
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Abraham Lincoln was
elected president in 1860.
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John F. Kennedy was
elected president in 1960.
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Both Lincoln and Kennedy
were known for their advocacy
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of civil rights.
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Both presidents presided
over major wars.
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Lincoln was president
during the Civil War.
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JFK was president during
the Vietnam War.
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Both presidents were
assassinated by Southerners.
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Both presidents were succeeded
by their vice presidents
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who were southerners.
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Andrew Johnson, who
succeeded Lincoln,
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was born in 1808.
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Lyndon Johnson, who
succeeded Kennedy,
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was born in 1908.
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Both Andrew Johnson and Lyndon
B. Johnson were Democrats.
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Lincoln's secretary was
named Kennedy,
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and Kennedy's secretary
was named Lincoln.
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Lincoln's secretary warned him
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not to go to Ford's Theater,
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and Kennedy's
secretary warned him
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not to go to Dallas.
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And both Kennedy and
Lincoln were killed
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in the presence of their wives.
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- Although these
similarities are mystifying
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and maybe scary,
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they don't explain the reason
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why these two
presidents were murdered
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or the reason why
Presidents McKinley
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and Garfield were murdered,
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as the reason for all
four of them
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was exactly the same.
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These men didn't just
attempt to do something.
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They actually carried it out.
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They changed the United
States monetary system,
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and it got them killed,
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all four of them by the
same method of execution.
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They were shot to death.
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Understanding how
money is issued
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and who actually controls it
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and how these people and
entities today
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make hundreds of
billions of dollars
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from this system every year
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will help to understand the
reason why these four men
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had their presidencies
terminated earlier than planned.
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When you look closely at the
money in your wallet or purse,
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you will notice at the
top of each bill,
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the words Federal Reserve note.
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But what is the Federal Reserve?
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Most Americans assume
the Federal Reserve banks
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are part of the government.
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They are not, the
Federal Reserve banks
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are private corporations,
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partially owned by
foreign interests.
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These banks and their
stockholders
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control the greater bulk
of wealth in America.
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To better understand the
true identity and purpose
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of these corporations,
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one must go back to the
earliest days of our nation.
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During the period after
the American Revolution
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but before the drafting
of the Constitution,
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our Founding Fathers were
approached by representatives
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of wealthy banking
families from Europe.
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They proposed the
establishment of a central bank
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for use by America.
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This bank would
provide the money
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that our young country needed
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to grow into a vibrant nation.
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However, the Founding Fathers
rejected their proposal.
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The United States, being
a sovereign nation,
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was fully capable of creating
its own money supply.
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This power, quote,
"To coin money
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"and regulate the value
thereof," end quote,
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was given to our Congress
in the Constitution.
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Aside from knowing that
the United States
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had the power to create
its own currency,
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the Founding Fathers
were well aware
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of the motives of the bankers,
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namely, to siphon off the
wealth and natural resources
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of the people through
various methods
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of currency manipulation
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just as they had done
throughout history
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in every major
country in Europe.
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- [Thomas] I believe that
banking establishments
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are more dangerous than
standing armies.
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Bank paper must be suppressed,
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and the circulating
medium must be restored
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to the nation to
whom it belongs.
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[eerie piano music]
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- The primary proponent
of a central bank
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for the early United States
was Alexander Hamilton.
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Sponsored by the international
banking conglomerates
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and wealthy elites,
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Hamilton convinced the U.S.
leadership
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that this central bank,
owned and controlled
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by his wealthy patrons,
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would partner with the
United States
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and establish a very
profitable banking franchise.
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Thus, a 20-year charter was
granted to the first bank
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of the United States in 1792.
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Over the next 20 years,
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this central bank
issued bank notes
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against the nation's gold coins.
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The ever-evolving
monetary monster,
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financed and took an
ownership interest
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in nearly every major
business endeavor
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started in the United States.
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The bankers, most of whom
were Europeans,
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soon convinced the new Congress
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that the United States
should sell their 20% share
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to the bank,
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and by 1808, the First
Bank of the United States
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was totally private, and
its profits were enormous.
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This did not escape
notice of Congress,
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who refused to renew
their charter in 1811.
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That same year, however,
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the nation quickly
discovered itself
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embroiled in conflicts
with Great Britain
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which led to the War of 1812.
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The British invaded and
sacked Washington,
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burning the White House and
most government buildings.
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Suffering financial
difficulties created by the war,
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Congress rechartered the bank,
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and then the British
withdrew from U.S. soil.
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[ominous piano music]
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This Second Bank of the
United States
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also had a 20-year charter.
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And by the time it was
up for renewal,
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the president in office
was Andrew Jackson.
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And Jackson, well, he
was a fiery man
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who happened to strongly oppose
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this central, private
banking system
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and paper money overall.
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Andrew Jackson had gained fame
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as a general in the
United States Army
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who fearlessly fought his
British enemies
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in the War of 1812.
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He then served in both
houses of Congress,
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never finding an issue
he didn't want to fight.
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As president, Jackson
sought to advance the rights
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of the common man
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against the corrupt aristocracy,
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and the bank was on his
hit list to eliminate.
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- [Andrew] "The bold effort
the present bank had made
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"to control the government
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"are but
premonitions of the fate
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"that await the American people
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"should they be deluded
into a perpetuation
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"of this institution
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"or the establishment of
another like it."
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- And kill the bank,
Andrew Jackson did.
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By a veto of the
bank's new charter,
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in hopes of extorting a rescue
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of their privately-controlled
central bank,
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banking moguls and
their political henchmen
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introduced a short-lived
financial panic
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that was initially
blamed on Jackson.
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But the people were
all the wiser
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with grave concern that a
single centralized private bank
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had been issuing
America's currency
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instead of the U.S. government.
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"Why should these private
bankers profit so vastly
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"when the government
itself could issue
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"and control the money
supply?", Jackson asked.
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This riled the
majority of Americans
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who were disturbed by
the bank's monopoly power
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to issue money and its
political favoritism
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in granting of loans.
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The Second Bank of the
United States
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had overplayed its hand.
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It very arrogantly and
indiscreetly denied loans
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to supporters of Andrew Jackson
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while bestowing loans to
his opponents.
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By 1834, a general backlash
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against the central bank's
tactics had widely spread,
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and all recharter efforts
were abandoned.
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At this point, their
monopoly power was shattered,
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and the power to issue money
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fell to any state-chartered
banking institution,
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and there were many.
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The Second Bank of the
United States chieftains,
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always crafty and highly
funded, simply switched gears.
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In February 1836,
this central bank
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became a private corporation
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under Pennsylvania
Commonwealth law.
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Still having some power,
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the centralized bankers utilized
it through relationships
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with numerous individual
private banks.
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And suddenly, a contrived
shortage of money ensued,
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causing the Panic of 1837.
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Everyone, regardless of
politics, was affected.
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[melancholy piano music]
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This panic lasted
approximately seven years
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until a system of banking
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completely excluding a
centralized bank
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gained its full footing.
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And from 1841 through 1857,
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America lived the greatest
economic prosperity
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it had ever seen.
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During this period, with
no centralized
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Second Bank of the United States
involved in it whatsoever,
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federal revenue was
solely diverted
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into smaller, unaffiliated
banks by executive order.
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Never willing to give up
on their uber-powerful
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and mega-wealthy wealth
creating monster
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of a business, however,
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the international centralized
bankers fostered a series
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of purported bank panics
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to highlight their
indispensable role.
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The Panic of 1857, the
Panic of 1873,
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the Panic of 1884, the
Panic of 1893,
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and the Panic of 1896.
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There were many naysayers
who recognized
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that these panics were bogus,
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but a combination of
greed and stupidity
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among the majority of top U.S.
government decision makers
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allowed the centralized
bank, in one form or another,
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to continually reemerge.
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Finally, in 1907, one
final alleged banking panic
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shifted public opinion
back in favor
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of a centralized bank system.
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The European families,
led by the Rothschilds,
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recognized that finally their
chance to take full control
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of America's banking system
had once again arrived.
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The European bankers began,
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through the newspapers they own
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and lobby groups they funded,
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to call for full banking reform.
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They clamored for
Congressional investigations
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into the current banking system
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and offered their expertise
in drafting reforms
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that would protect the public
against future bank failures.
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[eerie piano music]
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By 1912, so widespread
was public concern
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over banking reform
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that presidential candidates
from each political party
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offered their own
carefully-drafted versions
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of a national
monetary reform bill.
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What the public had no
way of knowing
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was that the two main
competing reform bills
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were virtually identical,
as both were written
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by the same German banker,
Paul Warburg.
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The public also had no
way of knowing
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that the election campaigns
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of the three 1912
presidential candidates
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were financed by Warburg's
firm, Kuhn Loeb and Company,
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one of the wealthiest and
oldest banking houses of Europe.
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By controlling not
only the content
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of the banking reform bill
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but also the results of the
1912 presidential election,
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the foreign banking
interests were guaranteed
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that their dream of establishing
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a new permanent central
bank for America
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would finally be realized.
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This allowed for their
complete control
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over America's money as
they once had
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with the First and Second
Banks of the United States.
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In 1913, the Warburg
central bank plan,
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intentionally mischaracterized
as the Federal Reserve Act,
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was signed into law
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by newly-elected president
Woodrow Wilson.
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This bill officially transferred
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Congress' constitutional
duty to issue America's money
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into the hands of a
private cartel,
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the Federal Reserve banks.
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Stock in these
private corporations
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was not made available
to the public
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and was purchased only by
the banks' leadership who,
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of course, were the powerful
international banking families.
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At its inception, the activities
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of the Federal Reserve
banks were intended
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to be monitored by the
president and Congress.
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However, over the years,
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through repeated subtle
changes in legislation,
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the operations of
these corporations
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have become
completely independent
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of all congressional control.
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Extremely secretive in
its operation,
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these corporations even
refuse to be fully audited
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by the United States government,
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with minimal
congressional opposition
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as both mainstream
political parties
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receive the majority of
their funding
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through these
internationally owned banks.
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To understand how the
Federal Reserve banks
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have successfully
converted the U.S.
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from the world's largest
creditor in 1913
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to the world's biggest
debtor today,
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it is only necessary to
examine the procedure
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that these corporations
employ to create our currency.
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When the management of
the Federal Reserve banks
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will claim that one billion
dollars should be issued
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for use by the American people,
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they simply create one
billion dollars
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and lend it into the
banking system.
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By doing so, new money
enters circulation
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as the Federal Reserve banks,
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the creators of money,
are not required
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to have any actual
funds of their own.
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With this money, they
simply purchase
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one billion dollars' worth
of U.S. Treasury debt
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from its member banks.
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The banks now have one billion
new dollars in their accounts
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which they will then loan into
the economy at high interest.
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Is it any wonder, then,
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that the bankers were so
persistent in their efforts
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to be granted the right to
issue America's currency?
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When the Federal Reserve
banks take possession
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of U.S. Treasury debt,
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they also take
possession and control
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of the real wealth of America,
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as it is the hard
labor and property
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of millions of citizens
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transferred into the
Treasury through taxes
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that backs up the actual
worth of this Treasury debt.
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Each time these private
corporations,
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called the Federal
Reserve banks,
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purchase a billion
dollars in debt,
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one billion dollars' worth of
American labor and property
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must eventually be
confiscated by the Treasury
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to cover the new debt.
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It may now be obvious why
Thomas Jefferson
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so vehemently fought the
issuance of America's currency
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by a private bank.
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To add to the oppressive nature
of our current money system,
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the Federal Reserve Bank
will collect annual interest
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on the Treasury debt it holds,
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further adding to the
indebtedness
of the American citizens
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to the Treasury and thus
the Federal Reserve banks.
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One sometimes hears the
term "debt money"
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used to describe the notes
issued by the Federal Reserve.
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Under our present system
of money creation,
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it is a sad fact that
each dollar note
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issued by this corporation
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places one dollar's
worth of debt
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onto the backs of the
American population.
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The effect of the Federal
Reserve banks on our nation
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and its citizens has
been devastating.
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Since 1913, the value
of the American dollar
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has fallen to 11 cents.
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Our gold reserves have
lost all correlation
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to money in circulation.
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Interest rates rise and
fall arbitrarily,
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and a continually
inflated money supply
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wipes out the value of
lifelong savings.
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And soon enough, interest
payments on the national debt
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will exceed all revenue
collected
annually by the Treasury.
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It's frightening that not
one in 100,000 Americans
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would be able to
guess the identity
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of the actual group responsible
for these tragic statistics.
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The culprit is the
Federal Reserve.
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Federal Reserve notes in
our wallets and purses
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are not constitutional money.
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They are in fact pieces of paper
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which document America's
ever-growing debt
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to the very clever,
very persistent
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and very wealthy stockholders
of the Federal Reserve banks.
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As President Woodrow Wilson said
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in that most important
year of 1913,
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- [Woodrow] "We have come to
be one of the worst-ruled,
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"one of the most
completely controlled
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"and dominated governments
in the civilized world.
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"No longer a government
by free opinion,
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"no longer a government
by conviction
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"and the vote of the majority,
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"but a government by the opinion
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"and the duress of small
groups of dominant men."
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- What got Lincoln, Garfield,
McKinley
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and Kennedy
assassinated wasn't just
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usual matters of
money and greed.
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No, it was much more.
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It was that they were tampering
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with the most powerful players
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in the U.S. monetary system,
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the international
centralized private banks
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who took over issuing
America's money
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instead of the U.S. Treasury.
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Now each of these
presidents was killed
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by a lone gunman, right?
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We're wrong, well,
let's take a look
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at what each assassinated
president did one by one
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and who may have killed them.
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[suspenseful piano music]
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Four months into his presidency,
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James A. Garfield was
shot by Charles Guiteau
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at the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad Station
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in Washington, DC.
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But who was Charles Guiteau?
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He could best be described
as an intellectual drifter
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who failed at many
professional endeavors.
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Yet he craved praise for
his botched undertakings.
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Guiteau developed some
sort of law practice.
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He tried his hand at
bill collections.
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He doted on God with a
stab at theology.
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He even journeyed with
John Humphrey Noyes's
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Perfectionist religious
commune, the Oneida Community.
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A cult-like group, this
community believed
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that Jesus had already
made his second coming
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back in 70 A.D.
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Through this theory, the
Oneidas believed
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that they could live
perfectly, free of sin,
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and live in a heaven on earth.
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If Jesus had already returned,
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then the Millennial Kingdom
was here for them to realize.
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The Oneida Community
practiced communalism
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and mutual criticism.
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The latter meant that at
weekly group meetings,
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everyone could criticize each
other without repercussions.
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According to the group's
leader, John Noyes,
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this was designed to eliminate
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undesirable character traits,
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or perhaps it was a component
of a communalism society
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where not only possessions
and property were shared
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but thoughts, too, like
a venue for shaping minds
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where all share equally
in the thought,
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property, and money pie,
sound familiar?
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Maybe like socialism
and communism?
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After spending five years
with the Oneida Community,
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could Charles Guiteau have been
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a socialist and
communist sympathizer?
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Does that type of assassin
sound familiar,
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like one Lee Harvey Oswald?
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But why would a
socialist-minded type person
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want to assassinate
James Garfield,
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or John F. Kennedy,
for that matter?
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Perhaps this could have
something to do with money.
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Because isn't the basis
of socialism and communism
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one thing, money,
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just like it is with any
form of economy?
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President Garfield was a
tried-and-true capitalist.
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He saw the economy as
a moral issue
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and that everyone should
have the ability
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to obtain the American Dream.
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The only real way to
succeed in that dream
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is through capitalism,
of course.
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History has proven that
every socialist society
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has turned into communism,
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which means that about 1% of
the society is uber-wealthy
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with the rest being super-poor.
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There is no middle class
in communist countries,
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nor in socialist economies.
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Accordingly, communism and
socialism, well, stink.
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That's what President
Garfield thought, at least.
513
00:28:12,625 --> 00:28:13,666
But not Charles Guiteau.
514
00:28:14,916 --> 00:28:18,375
Oh, by the way, James
Garfield wanted the U.S.
515
00:28:18,416 --> 00:28:20,125
to return to the gold standard.
516
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:22,500
Would this upset a socialist?
517
00:28:23,791 --> 00:28:25,500
Let's try to put it
all together.
518
00:28:25,541 --> 00:28:27,875
The United States
government's story
519
00:28:27,916 --> 00:28:30,833
is that Guiteau fired
a bullet into Garfield
520
00:28:30,875 --> 00:28:34,000
because he was enraged
that the president
521
00:28:34,041 --> 00:28:37,375
didn't appoint him to an
ambassador post.
522
00:28:37,416 --> 00:28:39,750
You see, Guiteau had
written a speech
523
00:28:39,791 --> 00:28:42,708
in favor of
Garfield's candidacy.
524
00:28:42,750 --> 00:28:45,833
According to official
historical accounts,
525
00:28:45,875 --> 00:28:48,916
Guiteau believed that
this speech was integral
526
00:28:48,958 --> 00:28:51,250
if not the deciding factor
527
00:28:51,291 --> 00:28:53,208
in leading to Garfield's victory
528
00:28:53,250 --> 00:28:58,291
over his Democrat
opponent, Winfield Hancock.
529
00:28:58,333 --> 00:29:01,750
Unfortunately for Guiteau,
no one else thought that.
530
00:29:01,791 --> 00:29:05,333
His speech, entitled
"Garfield versus Hancock,"
531
00:29:05,375 --> 00:29:09,208
was originally called
"Grant versus Hancock."
532
00:29:09,250 --> 00:29:11,250
That's because Guiteau
first believed
533
00:29:11,291 --> 00:29:15,250
that Ulysses S. Grant would
win the Republican nomination
534
00:29:15,291 --> 00:29:18,500
in the 1880
presidential election.
535
00:29:18,541 --> 00:29:23,291
When Grant lost the
nomination to Garfield,
536
00:29:23,333 --> 00:29:25,166
Guiteau changed the
title of his speech
537
00:29:25,208 --> 00:29:28,666
to "Garfield versus Hancock."
538
00:29:28,708 --> 00:29:31,458
With speech in hand,
Guiteau seemingly joined
539
00:29:31,500 --> 00:29:33,416
the Garfield campaign.
540
00:29:33,458 --> 00:29:36,875
However, he never
publicly read the speech,
541
00:29:36,916 --> 00:29:40,750
and he only distributed a
few hundred written copies.
542
00:29:40,791 --> 00:29:43,666
The speech was criticized
because it was replete
543
00:29:43,708 --> 00:29:46,708
with references to
Grant's policies,
544
00:29:46,750 --> 00:29:49,000
which weren't necessarily
promulgated by Garfield.
545
00:29:50,458 --> 00:29:54,125
In a rush to switch the
speech to pertain to Garfield,
546
00:29:54,166 --> 00:29:56,083
Guiteau apparently was careless,
547
00:29:56,125 --> 00:29:59,583
and it read more like a
stump speech for Grant.
548
00:29:59,625 --> 00:30:02,291
The general consensus is
that his speech
549
00:30:02,333 --> 00:30:03,958
was wholly ineffective
550
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:08,333
and had no bearing whatsoever
on Garfield's campaign.
551
00:30:08,375 --> 00:30:12,666
Still, most historians proclaim
that Guiteau was delusional
552
00:30:12,708 --> 00:30:16,958
and believed that his "Garfield
versus Hancock" speech
553
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,791
was the linchpin to
Garfield's win.
554
00:30:19,833 --> 00:30:21,875
And after the election,
555
00:30:21,916 --> 00:30:25,583
Guiteau sought to be appointed
ambassador of Vienna.
556
00:30:25,625 --> 00:30:28,375
It is reported that he
bounced from Republican event
557
00:30:28,416 --> 00:30:31,666
to Republican event,
lobbying for this post
558
00:30:31,708 --> 00:30:35,791
and citing his speech as the
basis for the appointment.
559
00:30:35,833 --> 00:30:37,208
He visited the White House,
560
00:30:37,250 --> 00:30:39,875
even dropping off a
copy of his speech
561
00:30:39,916 --> 00:30:42,083
to the newly elected Garfield.
562
00:30:42,125 --> 00:30:44,083
And for the next few months,
563
00:30:44,125 --> 00:30:45,583
he bantered back and forth
564
00:30:45,625 --> 00:30:48,041
between the State Department
and the White House
565
00:30:48,083 --> 00:30:51,333
fervently advocating
his ambassadorship cause
566
00:30:51,375 --> 00:30:53,500
to Cabinet members
and whoever else
567
00:30:53,541 --> 00:30:56,208
in the power hierarchy
he could reach.
568
00:30:56,250 --> 00:31:00,500
Finally, Mr. Guiteau
advised that he would settle
569
00:31:00,541 --> 00:31:03,375
for a diplomatic post in Paris.
570
00:31:03,416 --> 00:31:06,458
He wasn't gaining much traction,
however.
571
00:31:06,500 --> 00:31:09,958
Guiteau had been staying in
varied D.C. area boardinghouses,
572
00:31:10,791 --> 00:31:12,625
allegedly beating his bills
573
00:31:12,666 --> 00:31:15,250
and rarely changing his clothes.
574
00:31:15,291 --> 00:31:17,416
The government says
he was becoming
575
00:31:17,458 --> 00:31:19,916
more and more
desperate and crazed
576
00:31:19,958 --> 00:31:21,750
to earn his appointment.
577
00:31:21,791 --> 00:31:24,625
And after being banned
from the White House,
578
00:31:24,666 --> 00:31:28,291
he approached Secretary
of State James G. Blaine
579
00:31:28,333 --> 00:31:29,875
who reportedly told him,
580
00:31:29,916 --> 00:31:31,250
- [James] "Never
speak to me again
581
00:31:31,291 --> 00:31:34,208
"of the Paris consulship
as long as you live."
582
00:31:36,458 --> 00:31:38,416
- Run-of-the-mill
historical accounts
583
00:31:38,458 --> 00:31:40,708
provide that the sum total
584
00:31:40,750 --> 00:31:43,708
of this Garfield
Administration rebuke
585
00:31:43,750 --> 00:31:48,333
resulted in Guiteau electing
to assassinate the president.
586
00:31:48,375 --> 00:31:51,000
More so, it is said that
Guiteau declared
587
00:31:51,041 --> 00:31:55,750
that a higher power commanded
him to kill President Garfield
588
00:31:55,791 --> 00:31:57,125
and that he stated,
589
00:31:57,166 --> 00:32:01,541
- [Charles] "I leave my
justification to God."
590
00:32:01,583 --> 00:32:05,208
- God's command and
Justification for the shooting,
591
00:32:05,250 --> 00:32:09,208
of course, was rooted in
Garfield's lack of gratitude
592
00:32:09,250 --> 00:32:10,916
for Guiteau's speech
593
00:32:10,958 --> 00:32:13,291
until his decision to not
appoint Guiteau
594
00:32:13,333 --> 00:32:15,708
to one of the
diplomatic positions.
595
00:32:15,750 --> 00:32:17,500
Now, would God do that?
596
00:32:18,458 --> 00:32:20,291
Would a crazy person even think
597
00:32:20,333 --> 00:32:22,916
that God would issue
such an order?
598
00:32:22,958 --> 00:32:26,708
Maybe, maybe there was
something more to this.
599
00:32:27,791 --> 00:32:30,041
Do you know what else James A.
Garfield
600
00:32:30,083 --> 00:32:32,875
pushed extremely hard for?
601
00:32:32,916 --> 00:32:35,375
A hint, it was something
602
00:32:35,416 --> 00:32:39,041
that the first assassinated
president was known for,
603
00:32:39,083 --> 00:32:41,875
civil rights for
black Americans.
604
00:32:41,916 --> 00:32:45,833
While Abraham Lincoln freed
the slaves as U.S. President,
605
00:32:45,875 --> 00:32:48,666
James Garfield was one
of his loyal soldiers
606
00:32:48,708 --> 00:32:50,708
in the U.S. Congress.
607
00:32:50,750 --> 00:32:55,291
Garfield was a staunch
abolitionist
prior to the Civil War,
608
00:32:55,333 --> 00:32:59,458
and he became a brigadier
general at only 31 years old,
609
00:32:59,500 --> 00:33:02,291
successfully leading
the Union troops
610
00:33:02,333 --> 00:33:04,625
against the Confederates
in a famous battle
611
00:33:04,666 --> 00:33:06,208
at Middle Creek, Kentucky.
612
00:33:07,208 --> 00:33:09,291
After Lincoln's assassination,
613
00:33:09,333 --> 00:33:12,750
Garfield become one of the
strongest voices in Congress
614
00:33:12,791 --> 00:33:14,666
in favor of civil rights
615
00:33:14,708 --> 00:33:16,958
for not only the
newly-freed slaves
616
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,000
but for all blacks
across America.
617
00:33:20,041 --> 00:33:23,583
He was a proponent of
increased black education,
618
00:33:23,625 --> 00:33:27,000
and he actually called
for black suffrage rights.
619
00:33:28,041 --> 00:33:29,666
Now there was a
direct connection
620
00:33:29,708 --> 00:33:32,666
between Abraham Lincoln
and James Garfield.
621
00:33:32,708 --> 00:33:34,541
Both men were
opposed to slavery.
622
00:33:35,708 --> 00:33:38,208
But was this civil rights
unity something
623
00:33:38,250 --> 00:33:40,791
that would have caused
either of their assassins
624
00:33:40,833 --> 00:33:42,458
to pull the trigger?
625
00:33:42,500 --> 00:33:47,125
After all, this was the most
divisive issue of their time.
626
00:33:47,166 --> 00:33:49,708
Of course, we all know
that Lincoln's murderer,
627
00:33:49,750 --> 00:33:54,125
John Wilkes Booth, was an
ardent Confederate sympathizer
628
00:33:54,166 --> 00:33:57,375
who hated Lincoln for
making slavery illegal
629
00:33:57,416 --> 00:33:58,458
in the Southern states.
630
00:33:59,666 --> 00:34:01,875
But there is no evidence
that Charles Guiteau
631
00:34:01,916 --> 00:34:03,958
was influenced by this matter
632
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,416
or that he was even concerned
633
00:34:05,458 --> 00:34:07,416
with the civil rights
movement at all.
634
00:34:08,666 --> 00:34:09,708
There is evidence, though,
635
00:34:09,750 --> 00:34:12,416
that both Guiteau and
Booth were angry
636
00:34:12,458 --> 00:34:14,416
at their
then-respective presidents.
637
00:34:15,458 --> 00:34:17,541
The government's
historical accounts
638
00:34:17,583 --> 00:34:21,375
present different reasons
for their presidential rage.
639
00:34:21,416 --> 00:34:23,875
However, at their
respective times,
640
00:34:23,916 --> 00:34:26,500
their disdain was no secret.
641
00:34:26,541 --> 00:34:31,500
And when anger is revealed,
sometimes it can be seized upon.
642
00:34:31,541 --> 00:34:33,875
There is known
substantial evidence
643
00:34:33,916 --> 00:34:36,875
which shows that both
John Wilkes Booth
644
00:34:36,916 --> 00:34:40,291
and Lee Harvey Oswald,
JFK's killer,
645
00:34:40,333 --> 00:34:43,416
were recruited and
used as patsies
646
00:34:43,458 --> 00:34:46,958
by other higher powers to
commit their assassinations.
647
00:34:48,083 --> 00:34:50,208
May the same be true with
Charles Guiteau?
648
00:34:51,500 --> 00:34:55,125
Was there a conspiracy
to murder James Garfield?
649
00:34:55,166 --> 00:34:57,958
And if so, was Charles
Guiteau recruited
650
00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:59,500
to be the trigger man
651
00:34:59,541 --> 00:35:02,208
because of his well-known
hatred for Garfield?
652
00:35:03,250 --> 00:35:05,375
And because it was
also well known
653
00:35:05,416 --> 00:35:07,750
that he was clinically insane,
654
00:35:07,791 --> 00:35:10,875
or could Charles Guiteau have
been completely rational?
655
00:35:12,083 --> 00:35:14,625
And could his socialist
ideology have been
656
00:35:14,666 --> 00:35:17,125
the core motive for
the shooting?
657
00:35:17,166 --> 00:35:20,375
Either way, an insane
man with a motive
658
00:35:20,416 --> 00:35:23,458
or a cult-like
ideologue with a motive
659
00:35:23,500 --> 00:35:25,416
makes for a good
choice to conscript
660
00:35:25,458 --> 00:35:28,041
into an assassination plot.
661
00:35:28,083 --> 00:35:29,958
But who would want to
enlist Guiteau,
662
00:35:31,083 --> 00:35:33,333
and what would be these
person's motives
663
00:35:33,375 --> 00:35:35,291
to murder a president?
664
00:35:35,333 --> 00:35:39,166
James Garfield actively opposed
cooperative farm programs
665
00:35:39,208 --> 00:35:41,875
such as those supported
by the Grange,
666
00:35:41,916 --> 00:35:44,250
an agrarian organization.
667
00:35:44,291 --> 00:35:47,708
Recall who else employed
communal property programs?
668
00:35:47,750 --> 00:35:50,416
Yes, the Oneida Community,
669
00:35:50,458 --> 00:35:52,750
which Guiteau was a
longtime member of.
670
00:35:53,833 --> 00:35:56,375
Garfield also opposed
labor unions,
671
00:35:56,416 --> 00:35:58,958
mandatory maximum
eight-hour workdays,
672
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:03,500
and federally funded relief,
welfare-type projects.
673
00:36:03,541 --> 00:36:07,583
Yes, James Garfield was
not a big government guy.
674
00:36:07,625 --> 00:36:10,416
He was the furthest
thing from a socialist.
675
00:36:10,458 --> 00:36:12,625
He was known for saying
that these liberal,
676
00:36:12,666 --> 00:36:15,083
cooperative, and labor
policies equated
677
00:36:15,125 --> 00:36:18,166
to communism in disguise,
678
00:36:18,208 --> 00:36:20,291
and also remember this.
679
00:36:20,333 --> 00:36:23,083
James Garfield was an
outspoken advocate
680
00:36:23,125 --> 00:36:24,958
of the gold standard.
681
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,416
Arguments among
congressmen raged
682
00:36:27,458 --> 00:36:30,416
between those who wanted
all U.S. money
683
00:36:30,458 --> 00:36:32,250
to be backed by gold
684
00:36:32,291 --> 00:36:36,208
versus those who demanded
that paper currency be issued
685
00:36:36,250 --> 00:36:39,625
along with silver being
coined in greater quantities.
686
00:36:39,666 --> 00:36:43,125
These greenbackers and
Silver Rights opine
687
00:36:43,166 --> 00:36:47,000
that such a monetary system
would aid in debt relief,
688
00:36:47,041 --> 00:36:49,750
especially for
distressed farmers.
689
00:36:49,791 --> 00:36:51,833
Garfield rebuked them,
690
00:36:51,875 --> 00:36:56,750
instead promoting hard-money
policies backed by gold.
691
00:36:56,791 --> 00:36:59,583
Before being elected to
the presidency,
692
00:36:59,625 --> 00:37:01,375
Garfield was the chairman
693
00:37:01,416 --> 00:37:04,250
of Congress's Banking
and Currency Committee.
694
00:37:04,291 --> 00:37:05,666
He was also a key member
695
00:37:05,708 --> 00:37:08,166
of the House Ways and
Means Committee.
696
00:37:08,208 --> 00:37:11,041
There, he strongly backed
the hard-money,
697
00:37:11,083 --> 00:37:13,083
gold standard initiatives,
698
00:37:13,125 --> 00:37:15,750
and he was a major proponent
of the U.S. government
699
00:37:15,791 --> 00:37:17,541
issuing its own money
700
00:37:17,583 --> 00:37:20,375
instead of the private
centralized banks.
701
00:37:20,416 --> 00:37:24,875
[suspenseful electronic music]
702
00:37:24,916 --> 00:37:28,083
By fighting against the
issuance of paper currency
703
00:37:28,125 --> 00:37:30,083
not supported by gold,
704
00:37:30,125 --> 00:37:33,458
as well as advocating for
the use of greenback dollars
705
00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:36,958
issued under Abraham Lincoln
during the Civil War,
706
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,666
Garfield became a target
of those in favor
707
00:37:39,708 --> 00:37:41,000
of soft money policies.
708
00:37:42,708 --> 00:37:45,208
While his hard-money
stance made him popular
709
00:37:45,250 --> 00:37:47,625
with many Gold Bug Republicans
710
00:37:47,666 --> 00:37:49,416
who wanted to thwart
the country's
711
00:37:49,458 --> 00:37:51,833
ever-expanding money supply,
712
00:37:51,875 --> 00:37:54,916
it certainly infuriated
many of those higher powers
713
00:37:54,958 --> 00:37:56,750
in the private banking industry.
714
00:37:57,958 --> 00:37:59,791
And that's because they
stood to make
715
00:37:59,833 --> 00:38:03,125
billions of dollars in
the late 19th century
716
00:38:03,166 --> 00:38:06,000
by controlling and
issuing the U.S. currency.
717
00:38:07,083 --> 00:38:08,291
During his campaign,
718
00:38:08,333 --> 00:38:10,375
Garfield had a lot of opposition
719
00:38:10,416 --> 00:38:14,208
from the Stalwarts faction
of his Republican party.
720
00:38:14,250 --> 00:38:16,916
This group were allied
with the deep state power
721
00:38:16,958 --> 00:38:19,208
of the international
banking chieftains.
722
00:38:20,333 --> 00:38:22,708
The Stalwarts pushed for
Chester A. Arthur
723
00:38:22,750 --> 00:38:23,666
to be Garfield's running mate.
724
00:38:25,208 --> 00:38:30,041
To mend fences and maintain
party cohesion, Garfield agreed,
725
00:38:30,083 --> 00:38:32,250
and Arthur became his
vice president.
726
00:38:32,958 --> 00:38:34,416
It's interesting to note
727
00:38:34,458 --> 00:38:37,750
that as Charles Guiteau was
being wrestled to the ground
728
00:38:37,791 --> 00:38:40,041
after shooting Garfield,
he screamed,
729
00:38:40,083 --> 00:38:42,666
- [Charles] "I am a
stalwart of the Stalwarts,
730
00:38:42,708 --> 00:38:45,583
"and Arthur will be president."
731
00:38:45,625 --> 00:38:48,625
- No doubt Chester A.
Arthur did become president
732
00:38:48,666 --> 00:38:51,666
upon Garfield dying
from his gunshot wounds.
733
00:38:52,541 --> 00:38:53,833
Did the Stalwarts
734
00:38:53,875 --> 00:38:57,291
and their centralized
banking industry bosses
735
00:38:57,333 --> 00:39:01,458
conspire with Charles Guiteau
to murder James Garfield
736
00:39:01,500 --> 00:39:04,416
because he wanted to take
enormous power and wealth
737
00:39:04,458 --> 00:39:05,583
away from them,
738
00:39:06,833 --> 00:39:08,875
because he didn't want
these bank moguls
739
00:39:08,916 --> 00:39:11,541
to issue paper money
and coin silver,
740
00:39:12,541 --> 00:39:14,708
because he was a
presidential voice
741
00:39:14,750 --> 00:39:16,666
for the gold standard,
742
00:39:16,708 --> 00:39:19,083
and because he wanted the U.S.
government,
743
00:39:19,125 --> 00:39:22,666
on behalf of the people,
to issue its own money
744
00:39:22,708 --> 00:39:25,375
and not international
private bankers?
745
00:39:26,375 --> 00:39:28,416
'Cause in that scenario,
746
00:39:28,458 --> 00:39:31,708
Garfield was literally
stripping billions of dollars
747
00:39:31,750 --> 00:39:32,875
from these private banks.
748
00:39:34,250 --> 00:39:35,750
Could this greed and power
[cash register dinging]
749
00:39:35,791 --> 00:39:37,250
have been the true reason
750
00:39:37,291 --> 00:39:40,250
for President
Garfield's fatal demise?
751
00:39:40,291 --> 00:39:42,708
The centralized banks
are quite adverse
752
00:39:42,750 --> 00:39:45,166
to credit-based fiat money
753
00:39:45,208 --> 00:39:48,000
delivered directly
into circulation
754
00:39:48,041 --> 00:39:49,416
by the federal government.
755
00:39:50,416 --> 00:39:52,125
This type of money
assists people
756
00:39:52,166 --> 00:39:55,291
in escaping debt slavery
as it does not come
757
00:39:55,333 --> 00:39:57,666
with interest strings attached.
758
00:39:57,708 --> 00:40:00,000
Garfield had plans for the U.S.
Treasury,
759
00:40:01,125 --> 00:40:03,291
and not the centralized
private banks,
760
00:40:03,333 --> 00:40:07,291
to issue dollars directly
into the U.S. economy,
761
00:40:07,333 --> 00:40:11,250
following in the footsteps of
his mentor, Abraham Lincoln,
762
00:40:11,291 --> 00:40:15,041
who did just that to
finance the Civil War.
763
00:40:15,083 --> 00:40:18,750
Unfortunately, Garfield also
followed Lincoln's footsteps
764
00:40:18,791 --> 00:40:22,541
into an untimely,
unfinished presidential term
765
00:40:22,583 --> 00:40:24,625
that ended in a graveyard.
766
00:40:24,666 --> 00:40:27,916
During his inaugural speech,
President Garfield said,
767
00:40:29,250 --> 00:40:31,458
- [James] "Whoever controls
the volume of money
768
00:40:31,500 --> 00:40:34,166
"in any country is
absolute master of
769
00:40:34,208 --> 00:40:37,666
"all industry and commerce."
[people cheering]
770
00:40:37,708 --> 00:40:40,666
- Garfield had wanted the U.S.
Treasury,
771
00:40:40,708 --> 00:40:44,125
the people of the United
States, to have this control,
772
00:40:44,166 --> 00:40:47,375
and not some foreign,
private bankers.
773
00:40:47,416 --> 00:40:49,416
Officials would have you believe
774
00:40:49,458 --> 00:40:51,583
that James Garfield's
assassination
775
00:40:51,625 --> 00:40:55,750
was carried out by a lone
nut wrought with wrath
776
00:40:55,791 --> 00:40:59,125
over a lack of a
political appointment,
777
00:40:59,166 --> 00:41:01,083
that is was an act perpetrated
778
00:41:01,125 --> 00:41:04,041
by this one,
singular insane man.
779
00:41:05,333 --> 00:41:07,416
But it appears there
were indeed others
780
00:41:07,458 --> 00:41:10,583
who were involved in James
Garfield's assassination,
781
00:41:11,625 --> 00:41:13,000
men who cared a whole lot
782
00:41:13,041 --> 00:41:15,208
about the United States
monetary system
783
00:41:15,250 --> 00:41:16,166
and about who controlled it.
784
00:41:17,625 --> 00:41:21,500
James Garfield's quest to
re-institute the gold standard
785
00:41:21,541 --> 00:41:25,083
and have currency issued
directly by the U.S. government
786
00:41:25,125 --> 00:41:27,666
greatly angered these men.
787
00:41:27,708 --> 00:41:30,541
The same as Charles
Guiteau was greatly enraged
788
00:41:30,583 --> 00:41:32,416
by Garfield's failure to grant
789
00:41:32,458 --> 00:41:35,666
his desired
political appointment
790
00:41:35,708 --> 00:41:39,958
and/or Garfield's gold
standard capitalism ideology.
791
00:41:41,333 --> 00:41:45,041
Putting this together
renders one likely outcome,
792
00:41:45,083 --> 00:41:49,833
that these higher human
powers, not Godly powers,
793
00:41:49,875 --> 00:41:54,416
recruited Guiteau and used
him as their gunman fall guy.
794
00:41:56,083 --> 00:41:59,458
[typewriter chattering]
795
00:42:02,875 --> 00:42:05,125
A bizarre tragic footnote
796
00:42:05,166 --> 00:42:08,166
to James Garfield's
assassination
797
00:42:08,208 --> 00:42:10,541
was that he did not
die immediately
798
00:42:10,583 --> 00:42:13,958
from the gunshot wound
inflicted by Guiteau.
799
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:17,333
He actually passed away two
and a half months later,
800
00:42:17,375 --> 00:42:20,041
on September 19th, 1881.
801
00:42:21,125 --> 00:42:23,625
Many medical experts and
historians argue
802
00:42:23,666 --> 00:42:27,208
that Garfield would have
survived the shooting,
803
00:42:27,250 --> 00:42:30,791
and that severely botched
treatment by his doctors
804
00:42:30,833 --> 00:42:33,250
was the true proximate
cause of his death.
805
00:42:34,416 --> 00:42:36,916
Unsanitary medical
instruments were used
806
00:42:36,958 --> 00:42:40,458
to treat the president
immediately after the attack.
807
00:42:40,500 --> 00:42:42,000
In the weeks that followed,
808
00:42:42,041 --> 00:42:46,166
many other unsterilized
probing fingers and devices
809
00:42:46,208 --> 00:42:48,250
were inserted into
Garfield's body
810
00:42:48,291 --> 00:42:49,500
searching for the bullet.
811
00:42:50,541 --> 00:42:52,583
Even though newer
medical technology
812
00:42:52,625 --> 00:42:57,083
for the treatment of gunshot
wounds had emerged by 1881,
813
00:42:57,125 --> 00:42:59,708
Garfield's doctors
were old school
814
00:42:59,750 --> 00:43:02,583
and were adamant about
their methods.
815
00:43:02,625 --> 00:43:05,625
The combination of this
outdated treatment
816
00:43:05,666 --> 00:43:08,916
with the constant
unsanitary conditions
817
00:43:08,958 --> 00:43:11,541
caused Garfield to
suffer gravely
818
00:43:11,583 --> 00:43:14,500
as he spiraled towards death.
819
00:43:14,541 --> 00:43:16,958
Infections caused
blood poisoning
820
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:21,166
and his inability to
intake and digest any food.
821
00:43:21,208 --> 00:43:25,208
The president lost nearly
100 pounds before he died,
822
00:43:25,250 --> 00:43:27,708
and ultimately succumbed
to heart failure.
823
00:43:28,875 --> 00:43:31,333
Could his medical
doctors have been engaged
824
00:43:31,375 --> 00:43:33,916
in a further plot to
kill Garfield
825
00:43:33,958 --> 00:43:35,958
once it was learned that
Guiteau's bullet
826
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:37,500
didn't complete the job?
827
00:43:38,583 --> 00:43:40,708
That would seem rather unlikely,
828
00:43:40,750 --> 00:43:43,208
as it appears that he was
just the victim
829
00:43:43,250 --> 00:43:45,958
of good old-fashioned
medical malpractice.
830
00:43:46,958 --> 00:43:49,708
What is extremely likely,
however,
831
00:43:49,750 --> 00:43:52,541
is that the fired bullet
was at the fingertip
832
00:43:52,583 --> 00:43:54,125
of Charles Guiteau
833
00:43:54,166 --> 00:43:57,791
connected to the arms
of the very concerned
834
00:43:57,833 --> 00:44:01,750
and very angry centralized
banking cartel,
835
00:44:01,791 --> 00:44:03,833
the same banking cartel
836
00:44:03,875 --> 00:44:06,625
that was equally worried
and infuriated
837
00:44:06,666 --> 00:44:08,875
just 16 years earlier
838
00:44:08,916 --> 00:44:10,833
when Abraham Lincoln was shot
839
00:44:10,875 --> 00:44:12,916
by John Wilkes Booth.
840
00:44:12,958 --> 00:44:16,416
[melancholy piano music]
841
00:44:21,916 --> 00:44:24,583
President Lincoln had
asked the private bankers
842
00:44:24,625 --> 00:44:27,833
for a loan to finance
the Civil War
843
00:44:27,875 --> 00:44:32,916
and was quoted rates ranging
from 24 to 36% interest.
844
00:44:34,166 --> 00:44:37,708
In a a November 21st,
1862 letter
845
00:44:37,750 --> 00:44:41,083
from Lincoln to his friend,
William Elkin,
846
00:44:41,125 --> 00:44:43,125
the president declared,
847
00:44:43,166 --> 00:44:44,875
- [Abraham] "The
government should create,
848
00:44:44,916 --> 00:44:46,958
"issue and circulate
all the currency
849
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,416
"and credit needed to
satisfy the spending power
850
00:44:49,458 --> 00:44:53,333
"of the government and the
buying power of consumers.
851
00:44:53,375 --> 00:44:55,458
"The privilege of
creating and issuing money
852
00:44:55,500 --> 00:44:58,375
"is not only the supreme
prerogative of government,
853
00:44:58,416 --> 00:45:02,333
"but it is the government's
greatest creative opportunity.
854
00:45:02,375 --> 00:45:04,291
"By the adoption of
these principles,
855
00:45:04,333 --> 00:45:06,916
"the long-felt want for a
uniform medium
856
00:45:06,958 --> 00:45:08,958
"will be satisfied.
857
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,208
"The taxpayers will be saved
immense sums of interest,
858
00:45:12,250 --> 00:45:14,375
"discounts, and exchanges,
859
00:45:14,416 --> 00:45:17,166
"the financing of all
public enterprises,
860
00:45:17,208 --> 00:45:19,041
"the maintenance of
stable government
861
00:45:19,083 --> 00:45:20,583
"and ordered progress.
862
00:45:20,625 --> 00:45:22,625
"And the conduct of the Treasury
863
00:45:22,666 --> 00:45:26,375
"will become matters of
practical administration.
864
00:45:26,416 --> 00:45:29,125
"The people can and
will be furnished
865
00:45:29,166 --> 00:45:33,458
"with a currency as safe
as their own government.
866
00:45:33,500 --> 00:45:35,916
"Money will cease to
be their master
867
00:45:35,958 --> 00:45:38,791
"and become the
servant of humanity.
868
00:45:38,833 --> 00:45:43,166
"Democracy will rise
superior to the money power."
869
00:45:43,208 --> 00:45:44,916
- So Honest Abe rebuked
870
00:45:44,958 --> 00:45:47,708
the big centralized
banking cartels
871
00:45:47,750 --> 00:45:49,541
and decided that the U.S.
government
872
00:45:49,583 --> 00:45:53,041
would issue and control
its own money.
873
00:45:53,083 --> 00:45:57,041
President Lincoln then
asked Congress to pass a law
874
00:45:57,083 --> 00:45:58,500
authorizing the printing
875
00:45:58,541 --> 00:46:02,000
of full legal tender
Treasury notes
876
00:46:02,041 --> 00:46:04,291
to pay for the war effort.
877
00:46:04,333 --> 00:46:06,541
This law authorized the printing
878
00:46:06,583 --> 00:46:10,625
of $450 million worth
of greenbacks
879
00:46:10,666 --> 00:46:14,250
and interest-free money
to finance the war,
880
00:46:14,291 --> 00:46:16,416
which deprived the
centralized bankers
881
00:46:16,458 --> 00:46:18,541
of millions in interest.
882
00:46:18,583 --> 00:46:23,750
It acted as legal tender for
all debts, public and private.
883
00:46:23,791 --> 00:46:26,500
It paid for soldiers and sailors
884
00:46:26,541 --> 00:46:29,250
and necessary war supplies.
885
00:46:29,291 --> 00:46:31,708
Lincoln realized the
benefit to the Republic
886
00:46:31,750 --> 00:46:36,791
in a letter to Edward Taylor
in December 1862 when he wrote,
887
00:46:36,833 --> 00:46:38,750
- [Abraham] "We gave the
people of this Republic
888
00:46:38,791 --> 00:46:41,791
the greatest blessing
they have ever had,
889
00:46:41,833 --> 00:46:45,291
their own paper money
to pay their own debts."
890
00:46:45,333 --> 00:46:49,875
- In July of 1861,
Congress authorized
891
00:46:49,916 --> 00:46:53,375
the multi-millions of
dollars in demand notes.
892
00:46:53,416 --> 00:46:56,333
They bore no interest
and could be redeemed
893
00:46:56,375 --> 00:46:59,125
for specie on demand.
894
00:46:59,166 --> 00:47:01,083
They were not legal tender,
895
00:47:01,125 --> 00:47:02,375
but like Treasury notes,
896
00:47:02,416 --> 00:47:04,083
could be used to pay
customs duties.
897
00:47:05,333 --> 00:47:07,875
These demand notes were
printed in green ink
898
00:47:07,916 --> 00:47:12,583
on the reverse side, hence
their nickname, greenbacks.
899
00:47:12,625 --> 00:47:15,250
As they were fully
redeemable in gold,
900
00:47:15,291 --> 00:47:17,458
they traded at par.
901
00:47:17,500 --> 00:47:20,375
Remember who else
supported the gold standard
902
00:47:20,416 --> 00:47:24,708
and government-issued
money, President Garfield.
903
00:47:24,750 --> 00:47:28,125
And guess who else supported
government-issued money,
904
00:47:28,166 --> 00:47:30,916
William McKinley and John F.
Kennedy.
905
00:47:32,125 --> 00:47:34,333
Things, of course,
didn't turn out well
906
00:47:34,375 --> 00:47:35,875
for any of these presidents
907
00:47:35,916 --> 00:47:38,541
after they initiated their new
908
00:47:38,583 --> 00:47:41,375
and bank-damaging
monetary systems.
909
00:47:41,416 --> 00:47:44,916
More so, immediately
after their deaths,
910
00:47:44,958 --> 00:47:47,625
massive money-issuing
power went directly
911
00:47:47,666 --> 00:47:51,125
back into the greedy hands
of the centralized bankers.
912
00:47:51,166 --> 00:47:53,791
Upon Abraham Lincoln's
assassination,
913
00:47:53,833 --> 00:47:56,666
all of his U.S. Treasury
issued greenbacks
914
00:47:56,708 --> 00:47:59,166
were retired from circulation,
915
00:47:59,208 --> 00:48:02,375
leaving only
national bank notes.
916
00:48:02,416 --> 00:48:06,166
But what were national
bank notes in the 1860s?
917
00:48:06,208 --> 00:48:09,916
And why and how did they
come into existence?
918
00:48:09,958 --> 00:48:13,708
Because the 1860s
Congress was so influenced
919
00:48:13,750 --> 00:48:16,541
by the centralized
banking cartel,
920
00:48:16,583 --> 00:48:19,291
they would not grant Lincoln's
greenback legislation
921
00:48:19,333 --> 00:48:21,375
without a parallel system
922
00:48:21,416 --> 00:48:25,833
where the private banks
simultaneously issued money.
923
00:48:25,875 --> 00:48:29,708
Thus, Congress enacted
the National Banking Act,
924
00:48:29,750 --> 00:48:32,791
which established a
system of national banks
925
00:48:32,833 --> 00:48:34,708
and created a national currency
926
00:48:34,750 --> 00:48:37,416
maintained by private
bank holdings
927
00:48:37,458 --> 00:48:38,625
of U.S. Treasury bonds.
928
00:48:40,125 --> 00:48:44,833
This resulted in a dual
money-issuing system being born
929
00:48:44,875 --> 00:48:47,916
which encompassed both
the national bank notes
930
00:48:47,958 --> 00:48:49,666
and Lincoln's greenbacks.
931
00:48:50,750 --> 00:48:52,291
This, of course,
greatly benefited
932
00:48:52,333 --> 00:48:55,083
the international bankers
who sought to again
933
00:48:55,125 --> 00:48:57,500
control the issuing of
America's currency.
934
00:48:58,708 --> 00:49:02,500
The newly enacted two-fold
monetary system
935
00:49:02,541 --> 00:49:05,291
initiated out of necessity
by Abraham Lincoln
936
00:49:05,333 --> 00:49:07,291
to fund the Civil War
937
00:49:07,333 --> 00:49:10,583
became the creature
from Jekyll Island
938
00:49:10,625 --> 00:49:14,250
as it not only was the
perfect setup for the bankers,
939
00:49:14,291 --> 00:49:17,583
but it also very likely
led to Lincoln's death.
940
00:49:17,625 --> 00:49:22,291
The leading demon of this
mid-1800s banking cartel,
941
00:49:22,333 --> 00:49:26,041
Rothschilds and Sons,
seized the moment,
942
00:49:26,083 --> 00:49:28,708
even publicly
stating their plans
943
00:49:28,750 --> 00:49:33,291
well in advance of the
1863 Banking Act.
944
00:49:33,333 --> 00:49:36,291
At the marriage of Nathan
Rothschild's eldest daughter
945
00:49:36,333 --> 00:49:39,541
in 1857, he said,
946
00:49:39,583 --> 00:49:42,291
- [Nathan] "I shall divide
the United States in half.
947
00:49:42,333 --> 00:49:46,416
"Half for you, Lionel,
and half for you, James."
948
00:49:46,458 --> 00:49:49,250
- Curiously enough, the
Civil War was created
949
00:49:49,291 --> 00:49:51,375
in just this fashion,
950
00:49:51,416 --> 00:49:53,541
half with one Rothschild brother
951
00:49:53,583 --> 00:49:56,083
financially
supporting the North,
952
00:49:56,125 --> 00:49:58,333
and half with the other
Rothschild brother
953
00:49:58,375 --> 00:50:00,291
supporting the South.
954
00:50:00,333 --> 00:50:04,166
And the winner forced the
loser to pay his debts.
955
00:50:04,208 --> 00:50:06,041
So no matter who won the war,
956
00:50:06,083 --> 00:50:08,375
the Rothschilds and their
banking cartel
957
00:50:08,416 --> 00:50:10,458
won over the U.S.
monetary system.
958
00:50:11,791 --> 00:50:14,666
Since Lincoln's greenbacks
were immediately retired
959
00:50:14,708 --> 00:50:16,083
after his death,
960
00:50:16,125 --> 00:50:19,208
the only currency left were
the national bank notes
961
00:50:19,250 --> 00:50:21,916
issued by these private bankers.
962
00:50:21,958 --> 00:50:24,583
From this foothold grew
the forerunner
963
00:50:24,625 --> 00:50:27,083
of the Federal Reserve System,
964
00:50:27,125 --> 00:50:30,666
the modern centralized
banking cartel
965
00:50:30,708 --> 00:50:34,583
that controls the issuing
of all American currency.
966
00:50:34,625 --> 00:50:38,083
[melancholy piano music]
967
00:50:42,833 --> 00:50:45,500
After learning the much
less known circumstances
968
00:50:45,541 --> 00:50:48,416
surrounding James
Garfield's killing,
969
00:50:48,458 --> 00:50:50,666
it makes the very
likely true reason
970
00:50:50,708 --> 00:50:54,041
for Lincoln's murder
much more understandable.
971
00:50:54,083 --> 00:50:56,833
On the assassin's side,
Charles Guiteau
972
00:50:56,875 --> 00:50:59,541
certainly had his own
economic motivations
973
00:50:59,583 --> 00:51:01,916
to murder President Garfield,
974
00:51:01,958 --> 00:51:04,791
and he also presents as
the perfect patsy
975
00:51:04,833 --> 00:51:07,583
used to carry out the
deadly deed.
976
00:51:07,625 --> 00:51:10,041
Well, how about John
Wilkes Booth?
977
00:51:10,875 --> 00:51:12,166
The government's explanation
978
00:51:12,208 --> 00:51:15,541
for the Lincoln
assassination is well known.
979
00:51:15,583 --> 00:51:18,375
A famous actor, John
Wilkes Booth,
980
00:51:18,416 --> 00:51:22,500
and a few other disgruntled
Southerners of no notoriety
981
00:51:22,541 --> 00:51:26,125
got together and plotted
to kill the president.
982
00:51:26,166 --> 00:51:27,791
This group have been portrayed
983
00:51:27,833 --> 00:51:30,958
as racist Confederate patriots
984
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,166
whose motivation to kill Lincoln
985
00:51:33,208 --> 00:51:37,166
was one of pure revenge
for the president's refusal
986
00:51:37,208 --> 00:51:39,833
to allow the Southern succession
987
00:51:39,875 --> 00:51:42,125
and his freedom of the slaves.
988
00:51:42,166 --> 00:51:46,000
This was indeed the one
presidential assassination
989
00:51:46,041 --> 00:51:47,666
where even the government admits
990
00:51:47,708 --> 00:51:50,458
that it wasn't just a
lone gunman.
991
00:51:50,500 --> 00:51:53,333
However, the conspiracy,
our officials say,
992
00:51:53,375 --> 00:51:55,416
only goes so far.
993
00:51:55,458 --> 00:51:58,125
It was more or less a
case of just personal,
994
00:51:58,166 --> 00:52:01,750
political animosity
with no powerful brokers
995
00:52:01,791 --> 00:52:03,125
connected to the murder.
996
00:52:04,375 --> 00:52:06,166
But was it actually
more than that?
997
00:52:07,416 --> 00:52:09,666
Many theories have abounded.
998
00:52:09,708 --> 00:52:13,583
A logical one is that
Booth and his cohorts
999
00:52:13,625 --> 00:52:18,000
were part of a larger,
grandiose Confederate plot
1000
00:52:18,041 --> 00:52:20,541
which involved top
Confederate leaders.
1001
00:52:21,625 --> 00:52:23,916
Certainly, there was
considerable talk
1002
00:52:23,958 --> 00:52:26,708
and some planning by
Confederate chieftains
1003
00:52:26,750 --> 00:52:30,166
to eliminate Lincoln
many times during
1004
00:52:30,208 --> 00:52:32,583
and after the Civil War.
1005
00:52:32,625 --> 00:52:34,708
There also was
evidence that Booth
1006
00:52:34,750 --> 00:52:36,958
may have been in dialogue
with some of them.
1007
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:40,375
Specially coded letters were
found in Booth's belongings
1008
00:52:40,416 --> 00:52:42,166
at the National Hotel
1009
00:52:42,208 --> 00:52:45,083
which linked him to
the Confederacy.
1010
00:52:45,125 --> 00:52:49,250
One of booth's co-conspirators,
George Atzerodt,
1011
00:52:49,291 --> 00:52:52,750
stated before his trial
that Booth had knowledge
1012
00:52:52,791 --> 00:52:55,500
of an unsuccessful
Confederate plan
1013
00:52:55,541 --> 00:52:58,000
to blow up the White House.
1014
00:52:58,041 --> 00:53:01,583
And Booth's original
design to kidnap Lincoln
1015
00:53:01,625 --> 00:53:03,708
as opposed to murdering him
1016
00:53:03,750 --> 00:53:06,541
has been tied to Confederate
leadership involvement.
1017
00:53:07,750 --> 00:53:10,916
However, there is no
demonstrable evidence
1018
00:53:10,958 --> 00:53:14,125
to firmly bound men like
Jefferson Davis
1019
00:53:14,166 --> 00:53:17,250
or Stonewall Jackson into
Booth's plans.
1020
00:53:18,250 --> 00:53:20,500
Surely, the Confederate bosses
1021
00:53:20,541 --> 00:53:22,041
had a motive to kill Lincoln,
1022
00:53:23,208 --> 00:53:25,583
but there were motives
with strong proofs
1023
00:53:25,625 --> 00:53:27,666
that supersede even theirs.
1024
00:53:27,708 --> 00:53:29,291
You have often heard theories
1025
00:53:29,333 --> 00:53:33,541
that Lyndon B. Johnson was
behind the Kennedy
assassination,
1026
00:53:33,583 --> 00:53:36,916
that JFK's vice president
was the mastermind.
1027
00:53:37,916 --> 00:53:39,791
Well, maybe people
have conjectured
1028
00:53:39,833 --> 00:53:42,833
that the other Johnson VP
was the brains
1029
00:53:42,875 --> 00:53:45,208
behind Abraham Lincoln's
planned death.
1030
00:53:46,041 --> 00:53:48,250
You see, Andrew Johnson,
1031
00:53:48,291 --> 00:53:52,625
Lincoln's second in command,
knew John Wilkes Booth,
1032
00:53:53,708 --> 00:53:55,666
and they weren't just
acquaintances
1033
00:53:55,708 --> 00:53:56,708
according to many historians.
1034
00:53:58,208 --> 00:54:01,833
They say that when Johnson
was the governor of Tennessee,
1035
00:54:01,875 --> 00:54:04,583
he and Booth kept a pair
of sisters as mistresses.
1036
00:54:05,833 --> 00:54:09,041
During a lot of drinking
and frolicking together,
1037
00:54:09,083 --> 00:54:11,541
could Johnson and Booth
have hatched the plot
1038
00:54:11,583 --> 00:54:13,125
to kill Mr. Lincoln?
1039
00:54:14,291 --> 00:54:16,416
The president's wife thought so.
1040
00:54:16,458 --> 00:54:20,500
In an 1866 letter to
her friend, Sally Orne,
1041
00:54:20,541 --> 00:54:22,208
Mary Todd Lincoln wrote,
1042
00:54:23,333 --> 00:54:25,500
- [Mary] "That miserable
inebriate Johnson
1043
00:54:25,541 --> 00:54:28,500
"had cognizance of my
husband's death.
1044
00:54:28,541 --> 00:54:31,208
"Why was that card of
Booth's found in his box?
1045
00:54:31,250 --> 00:54:33,416
"Some acquaintance
certainly existed.
1046
00:54:34,541 --> 00:54:36,375
"I have been deeply impressed
1047
00:54:36,416 --> 00:54:37,833
"with the harrowing thought
1048
00:54:37,875 --> 00:54:41,041
"that he had an understanding
with the conspirators,
1049
00:54:41,083 --> 00:54:43,041
"and they knew their man.
1050
00:54:43,083 --> 00:54:44,958
"As sure and you and I live,
1051
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:47,666
"Johnson had some hand
in all this."
1052
00:54:49,166 --> 00:54:50,791
- Were Mrs. Lincoln's thoughts
1053
00:54:50,833 --> 00:54:54,041
those of a distraught,
paranoid wife,
1054
00:54:54,083 --> 00:54:56,958
or were they the product
of some credible evidence?
1055
00:54:57,000 --> 00:54:59,125
It's a fact that
just hours prior
1056
00:54:59,166 --> 00:55:01,375
to firing a bullet into
Lincoln's head
1057
00:55:01,416 --> 00:55:03,458
at the Ford's Theater,
1058
00:55:03,500 --> 00:55:05,250
John Wilkes Booth made a stop
1059
00:55:05,291 --> 00:55:07,666
at the Washington Hotel.
1060
00:55:07,708 --> 00:55:09,750
Why is that significant?
1061
00:55:09,791 --> 00:55:12,250
Because Vice President
Andrew Johnson
1062
00:55:12,291 --> 00:55:14,791
lived at the Washington Hotel.
1063
00:55:14,833 --> 00:55:18,916
More so, Booth left a
note with the hotel clerk
1064
00:55:18,958 --> 00:55:21,291
for Johnson and his
private secretary,
1065
00:55:21,333 --> 00:55:23,458
William A. Browning.
1066
00:55:23,500 --> 00:55:25,750
The note simply said,
1067
00:55:25,791 --> 00:55:27,625
- [John] "Don't wish
to disturb you,
1068
00:55:27,666 --> 00:55:31,166
"are you at home, J.
Wilkes Booth."
1069
00:55:31,208 --> 00:55:33,041
- William Browning
later testified
1070
00:55:33,083 --> 00:55:35,083
before a military court,
1071
00:55:35,125 --> 00:55:37,958
stating that he found a
note in his box
1072
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:40,208
that same afternoon.
1073
00:55:40,250 --> 00:55:42,541
Was John Wilkes Booth popping by
1074
00:55:42,583 --> 00:55:45,750
just to say "Hello" to
Vice President Johnson
1075
00:55:45,791 --> 00:55:49,000
on the day of Abraham
Lincoln's assassination,
1076
00:55:50,125 --> 00:55:52,833
or was he there to kill
Johnson first?
1077
00:55:53,875 --> 00:55:55,541
That would seem rather unlikely,
1078
00:55:55,583 --> 00:55:58,125
given that his visit to
Johnson's hotel
1079
00:55:58,166 --> 00:56:01,666
was about seven hours
before he shot Lincoln.
1080
00:56:01,708 --> 00:56:04,958
If he attempted to kill
Johnson that far in advance,
1081
00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:06,500
he definitely would not
have been able
1082
00:56:06,541 --> 00:56:09,541
to find an unprotected
President Lincoln
1083
00:56:09,583 --> 00:56:12,416
watching a play at
Ford's Theater.
1084
00:56:12,458 --> 00:56:15,083
If Lincoln's VP had been shot,
1085
00:56:15,125 --> 00:56:16,666
Lincoln would have been
scuttled away
1086
00:56:16,708 --> 00:56:18,791
to military protected safety.
1087
00:56:19,958 --> 00:56:23,250
So perhaps, as Mary Todd
Lincoln thought,
1088
00:56:23,291 --> 00:56:25,333
Booth was visiting
Johnson with regard
1089
00:56:25,375 --> 00:56:27,916
to their upcoming plot
to kill the president
1090
00:56:27,958 --> 00:56:29,791
later that day.
1091
00:56:29,833 --> 00:56:32,500
The First Lady wasn't the
only person in Washington
1092
00:56:32,541 --> 00:56:34,125
to think this.
1093
00:56:34,166 --> 00:56:37,458
Many members of Congress
also conjectured
1094
00:56:37,500 --> 00:56:39,166
that Johnson was the ringleader
1095
00:56:39,208 --> 00:56:42,125
of Lincoln's assassination
and conspiracy.
1096
00:56:42,166 --> 00:56:44,041
And they pointed to
Booth's hotel visit
1097
00:56:44,083 --> 00:56:45,458
as proof of it.
1098
00:56:45,500 --> 00:56:47,708
If Vice President
Johnson was involved,
1099
00:56:47,750 --> 00:56:49,583
the question is, why?
1100
00:56:50,666 --> 00:56:52,500
Was it just so that
he could assume
1101
00:56:52,541 --> 00:56:56,000
to the highest political
position in the land?
1102
00:56:56,041 --> 00:56:58,083
Was it because he was
a Southerner
1103
00:56:58,125 --> 00:57:00,333
and was opposed to the
freeing of slaves?
1104
00:57:01,583 --> 00:57:04,791
Or did his Southern
roots and relationships
1105
00:57:04,833 --> 00:57:06,666
provide more of an
economic reason
1106
00:57:06,708 --> 00:57:08,458
to see Lincoln dethroned?
1107
00:57:08,500 --> 00:57:12,666
Remember this, soon after
Abraham Lincoln's assassination,
1108
00:57:13,791 --> 00:57:16,458
all of his U.S. Treasury
issued greenbacks
1109
00:57:16,500 --> 00:57:19,041
were retired from circulation,
1110
00:57:19,083 --> 00:57:21,041
leaving only
national bank notes.
1111
00:57:22,416 --> 00:57:26,125
This rendered a very
critical and powerful result,
1112
00:57:26,166 --> 00:57:29,083
that only private banks
now controlled
1113
00:57:29,125 --> 00:57:30,833
the issuing of America's money,
1114
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:35,208
and under whose command
did this occur?
1115
00:57:35,250 --> 00:57:37,125
One Andrew Johnson.
1116
00:57:38,208 --> 00:57:40,791
So did Andrew Johnson,
at the behest
1117
00:57:40,833 --> 00:57:45,375
of the very powerful
private centralized bankers,
1118
00:57:45,416 --> 00:57:48,958
orchestrate the assassination
of Abraham Lincoln?
1119
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:51,750
And did Johnson recruit
his pleasure buddy,
1120
00:57:51,791 --> 00:57:55,583
John Wilkes Booth, to be
the trigger-man patsy?
1121
00:57:56,666 --> 00:57:59,208
A man of staunch Southern ideas
1122
00:57:59,250 --> 00:58:02,541
who was angry about
Lincoln's Civil War victory,
1123
00:58:02,583 --> 00:58:05,083
Booth was a prime choice
to be a figurehead
1124
00:58:05,125 --> 00:58:05,875
in a conspiracy.
1125
00:58:07,291 --> 00:58:10,958
He was an individual of
sizeable influence himself,
1126
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:14,916
serving as an 1860s
Hollywood type.
1127
00:58:14,958 --> 00:58:18,583
Booth's charismatic ability
to recruit other players
1128
00:58:18,625 --> 00:58:21,083
in the murder plot would be key,
1129
00:58:21,125 --> 00:58:23,958
and these other players
would identify him
1130
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:25,500
as the ringleader.
1131
00:58:25,541 --> 00:58:28,125
A smart cartel-like plot
1132
00:58:28,166 --> 00:58:32,333
would have the bank moguls
speaking directly to Johnson
1133
00:58:32,375 --> 00:58:35,791
with Johnson speaking
only to Booth
1134
00:58:35,833 --> 00:58:38,083
and Booth speaking to the others
1135
00:58:38,125 --> 00:58:39,958
who helped carry out the deed.
1136
00:58:40,791 --> 00:58:42,916
Under these circumstances,
1137
00:58:42,958 --> 00:58:45,208
the Vice President would
be far removed
1138
00:58:45,250 --> 00:58:48,583
from the street criminals
executing the plot,
1139
00:58:48,625 --> 00:58:51,208
and the bankers would be
even further away
1140
00:58:51,250 --> 00:58:53,583
from this sinister act.
1141
00:58:53,625 --> 00:58:57,208
Here, the perfect marriage
would have been in place.
1142
00:58:57,250 --> 00:59:00,083
Booth and his street
gang as a bunch
1143
00:59:00,125 --> 00:59:03,458
of Southern ideologues,
in their minds,
1144
00:59:03,500 --> 00:59:07,500
gain hero status by
righteously killing a man
1145
00:59:07,541 --> 00:59:10,250
who stole away the
livelihood and lifestyles
1146
00:59:10,291 --> 00:59:12,208
of half of America.
1147
00:59:12,250 --> 00:59:15,500
Andrew Johnson ascends to
the presidency,
1148
00:59:15,541 --> 00:59:18,666
and the international
private bankers, well,
1149
00:59:18,708 --> 00:59:21,791
by gaining full control
of the monetary system,
1150
00:59:21,833 --> 00:59:25,291
they earned billions
of dollars forever on.
1151
00:59:25,333 --> 00:59:27,458
Just kill Abraham Lincoln,
1152
00:59:27,500 --> 00:59:30,250
which makes Andrew
Johnson president,
1153
00:59:30,291 --> 00:59:33,208
and have Johnson retire
the greenbacks,
1154
00:59:33,250 --> 00:59:37,125
which means only national
bank notes are issued.
1155
00:59:37,166 --> 00:59:40,416
Here, the private banks
control the issuance
1156
00:59:40,458 --> 00:59:43,000
of all U.S. currency.
1157
00:59:43,041 --> 00:59:44,958
It doesn't get any more
powerful than that.
1158
00:59:46,125 --> 00:59:49,041
Wouldn't it be quite
rational to conclude
1159
00:59:49,083 --> 00:59:52,375
that this was why Abraham
Lincoln was assassinated?
1160
00:59:53,291 --> 00:59:56,375
As Mayor Amschel
Rothschild said,
1161
00:59:56,416 --> 00:59:57,500
- [Amschel] "Give me the power
1162
00:59:57,541 --> 00:59:59,250
"to create a nation's money,
1163
00:59:59,291 --> 01:00:02,791
"and I care not who
makes its laws."
1164
01:00:02,833 --> 01:00:04,875
- Since Lincoln wasn't
giving the bankers
1165
01:00:04,916 --> 01:00:08,041
the full power to create
this nation's money,
1166
01:00:08,083 --> 01:00:11,416
Andrew Johnson was a much
better choice.
1167
01:00:11,458 --> 01:00:14,375
So maybe Rothschild
cared just a bit
1168
01:00:14,416 --> 01:00:17,000
who was making America's laws.
1169
01:00:17,041 --> 01:00:18,875
It appears quite
likely that both
1170
01:00:18,916 --> 01:00:22,750
Abraham Lincoln and his
friend James Garfield
1171
01:00:22,791 --> 01:00:25,375
were murdered for the
same motive,
1172
01:00:25,416 --> 01:00:30,166
and with a similar modus
operandi in using patsies.
1173
01:00:30,208 --> 01:00:32,750
No doubt this
tradition carried on
1174
01:00:32,791 --> 01:00:35,333
with the assassinations
of William McKinley
1175
01:00:35,375 --> 01:00:37,500
and John F. Kennedy.
1176
01:00:37,541 --> 01:00:39,500
The conventional wisdom is
1177
01:00:39,541 --> 01:00:41,666
that President
McKinley's assassination
1178
01:00:41,708 --> 01:00:45,416
was the work of a lone
gunman, Leon Czolgosz.
1179
01:00:46,208 --> 01:00:47,625
An avowed socialist
1180
01:00:47,666 --> 01:00:50,666
like Garfield's gunman
Charles Guiteau
1181
01:00:50,708 --> 01:00:53,541
and Kennedy's shooter,
Lee Harvey Oswald,
1182
01:00:53,583 --> 01:00:57,750
Leon Czolgosz was livid
by what he called
1183
01:00:57,791 --> 01:00:59,666
"a corrupt U.S. government."
1184
01:01:00,791 --> 01:01:03,166
Well, this indeed was
the story put out
1185
01:01:03,208 --> 01:01:06,375
by the United States
government in 1901,
1186
01:01:06,416 --> 01:01:08,916
the year McKinley was killed.
1187
01:01:08,958 --> 01:01:10,791
But perhaps this
president's death
1188
01:01:10,833 --> 01:01:15,416
was the result of the more
logical and clear reason,
1189
01:01:15,458 --> 01:01:18,125
that he had instituted
what Lincoln and Garfield
1190
01:01:18,166 --> 01:01:21,000
had done years before him
1191
01:01:21,041 --> 01:01:23,833
in taking away
money-issuing control
1192
01:01:23,875 --> 01:01:26,041
from private,
centralized bankers.
1193
01:01:27,458 --> 01:01:31,291
William McKinley had
successfully led a U.S. victory
1194
01:01:31,333 --> 01:01:33,750
in the Spanish-American War,
1195
01:01:33,791 --> 01:01:38,000
which led to an easy win for
a second term as president,
1196
01:01:38,041 --> 01:01:40,916
but on September 6, 1901,
1197
01:01:40,958 --> 01:01:43,875
less than a year after
his re-election,
1198
01:01:43,916 --> 01:01:45,833
McKinley was shot in the abdomen
1199
01:01:45,875 --> 01:01:49,041
at the Temple of Music
in Buffalo, New York.
1200
01:01:49,083 --> 01:01:52,166
The shooter, Leon Czolgosz,
1201
01:01:52,208 --> 01:01:56,000
waited on a long line to
shake the president's hand.
1202
01:01:56,041 --> 01:01:59,375
When he finally reached
his Commander-in-Chief,
1203
01:01:59,416 --> 01:02:03,916
Czolgosz's right hand was
draped in a white handkerchief.
1204
01:02:03,958 --> 01:02:06,958
As McKinley reached out
to greet the man,
1205
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:10,083
Czolgosz fired two bullets.
1206
01:02:10,125 --> 01:02:14,166
One harmlessly bounced
off McKinley's chest bone,
1207
01:02:14,208 --> 01:02:17,125
but the other lodged in his gut.
1208
01:02:17,166 --> 01:02:20,916
The president fell to the ground
thinking about two people,
1209
01:02:20,958 --> 01:02:24,875
his wife and the man
who had just shot him.
1210
01:02:24,916 --> 01:02:27,291
McKinley notably said,
1211
01:02:27,333 --> 01:02:29,208
- [William] "Be careful
how you tell her.
1212
01:02:29,250 --> 01:02:30,166
"Oh, be careful."
1213
01:02:31,291 --> 01:02:34,000
- And as for his assassin,
he uttered,
1214
01:02:34,041 --> 01:02:35,791
- [Leon] "Be easy with him,
boys."
1215
01:02:36,833 --> 01:02:38,875
- Like James A. Garfield,
1216
01:02:38,916 --> 01:02:41,041
William McKinley did
not die quickly
1217
01:02:41,083 --> 01:02:43,291
from his bullet wounds.
1218
01:02:43,333 --> 01:02:47,750
Also like Garfield, failures
by the treating physicians
1219
01:02:47,791 --> 01:02:50,416
contributed to his
ultimate demise.
1220
01:02:50,458 --> 01:02:52,000
You've all heard of
the magic bullet
1221
01:02:52,041 --> 01:02:54,375
in the Kennedy assassination.
1222
01:02:54,416 --> 01:02:57,000
Well, the McKinley
assassination led to the coining
1223
01:02:57,041 --> 01:02:59,208
of the phrase "The
Mystery Bullet."
1224
01:03:00,500 --> 01:03:03,291
This is because doctors
spent over 90 minutes
1225
01:03:03,333 --> 01:03:06,625
looking for the bullet during
the president's autopsy,
1226
01:03:06,666 --> 01:03:07,333
but it was never found.
1227
01:03:08,791 --> 01:03:12,875
Doctors, media, and political
leaders were so perplexed
1228
01:03:12,916 --> 01:03:15,958
by McKinley's quick and
unexpected decline
1229
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:19,291
that many opined that the
bullet must have been poisoned.
1230
01:03:20,375 --> 01:03:22,666
More so, the question was asked,
1231
01:03:22,708 --> 01:03:25,375
"Where the hell was the
mystery bullet?"
1232
01:03:25,416 --> 01:03:28,125
And perhaps it might be
a smarter question to ask
1233
01:03:28,166 --> 01:03:31,166
if McKinley was poisoned
after he was shot,
1234
01:03:32,208 --> 01:03:34,333
not from a poison bullet,
1235
01:03:34,375 --> 01:03:36,416
but by someone simply
poisoning him.
1236
01:03:37,625 --> 01:03:40,458
Were the doctors part
of a conspiracy,
1237
01:03:40,500 --> 01:03:42,791
brought in to finish
off an uncompleted job?
1238
01:03:43,958 --> 01:03:46,500
You recall what happened
to James Garfield.
1239
01:03:46,541 --> 01:03:50,291
Mainstream history outright
blames botched medical care
1240
01:03:50,333 --> 01:03:51,875
for the proximate cause
of his death.
1241
01:03:53,083 --> 01:03:55,666
If the killers were
successful once before
1242
01:03:55,708 --> 01:03:59,916
in eliminating a president
after a non-lethal shooting,
1243
01:03:59,958 --> 01:04:03,416
why not try the same
coffin-ensuring method again?
1244
01:04:03,458 --> 01:04:04,583
Bring in the dirty doctors.
1245
01:04:05,833 --> 01:04:07,958
Those who infect their
presidential patients
1246
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:10,666
with unsanitary probing fingers,
1247
01:04:10,708 --> 01:04:14,625
non-sterile instruments,
and unclean conditions,
1248
01:04:14,666 --> 01:04:18,375
follow this by failing to
remove a mystery bullet.
1249
01:04:18,416 --> 01:04:20,541
Or maybe quite the opposite,
1250
01:04:20,583 --> 01:04:22,416
locating the bullet,
taking it out,
1251
01:04:22,458 --> 01:04:24,500
and acting like it's still there
1252
01:04:24,541 --> 01:04:25,916
to justify a certain type
1253
01:04:25,958 --> 01:04:28,791
of supposedly
cautious treatment,
1254
01:04:28,833 --> 01:04:31,833
a treatment that allows
gangrene to develop and kill.
1255
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:34,375
Whatever the exact details,
1256
01:04:34,416 --> 01:04:37,166
we know that both
President Garfield
1257
01:04:37,208 --> 01:04:40,500
and President McKinley
died quite some time
1258
01:04:40,541 --> 01:04:41,333
after their shooting.
1259
01:04:42,541 --> 01:04:44,916
We also know that they
died from infections
1260
01:04:44,958 --> 01:04:45,791
and blood poisoning.
1261
01:04:46,958 --> 01:04:50,000
It's hard to believe that
two presidents,
1262
01:04:50,041 --> 01:04:53,541
people surely in line for
the greatest of medical care,
1263
01:04:53,583 --> 01:04:54,875
apparently got the worst.
1264
01:04:55,958 --> 01:04:58,375
Was this just coincidental,
bad luck,
1265
01:04:59,666 --> 01:05:01,708
or were the doctors hired hands,
1266
01:05:01,750 --> 01:05:05,375
brought in to suture an
unfinished assassination?
1267
01:05:05,416 --> 01:05:06,958
Or perhaps the physicians
1268
01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:09,166
provided fine medical treatment,
1269
01:05:09,208 --> 01:05:11,666
and someone else with
access to the president
1270
01:05:11,708 --> 01:05:12,250
poisoned their blood.
1271
01:05:13,833 --> 01:05:17,958
No matter, these two men could
have survived their shootings
1272
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:20,625
but mysteriously died with
poisoned blood.
1273
01:05:20,666 --> 01:05:23,958
Just like we revealed in
the murder of James Garfield
1274
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:27,250
and the famous assassinations
of Lincoln and Kennedy,
1275
01:05:27,291 --> 01:05:30,791
the lone gunman theory in
William McKinley's case
1276
01:05:30,833 --> 01:05:32,208
is wholly unbelievable.
1277
01:05:33,291 --> 01:05:35,958
Everyone knows that
John Wilkes Booth
1278
01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:38,375
and Lee Harvey Oswald had
personal motives
1279
01:05:38,416 --> 01:05:41,041
to kill Honest Abe and JFK.
1280
01:05:41,083 --> 01:05:45,208
We clearly identified Charles
Guiteau's intimate reason
1281
01:05:45,250 --> 01:05:47,000
to eliminate Garfield.
1282
01:05:47,041 --> 01:05:50,500
Did Leon Czolgosz also
have a private rationale
1283
01:05:50,541 --> 01:05:53,333
for his carnage upon
William McKinley?
1284
01:05:53,375 --> 01:05:55,000
Yes, he did.
1285
01:05:55,041 --> 01:05:58,416
Leon Czolgosz was punched,
kicked, and stomped
1286
01:05:58,458 --> 01:06:02,041
by police and bystanders
after he shot McKinley.
1287
01:06:02,083 --> 01:06:05,583
Thereafter, he provided a full
confession to authorities.
1288
01:06:05,625 --> 01:06:08,833
In fact, he presented
them with a written letter
1289
01:06:08,875 --> 01:06:12,166
that outlined his
premeditated actions.
1290
01:06:12,208 --> 01:06:16,208
Czolgosz referred to
himself as Fred Neiman
1291
01:06:16,250 --> 01:06:19,416
which in German means
Fred Nobody.
1292
01:06:19,458 --> 01:06:22,416
You see, Czolgosz was
a total zero,
1293
01:06:22,458 --> 01:06:26,541
poor, unemployed, unskilled,
and alone.
1294
01:06:26,583 --> 01:06:30,333
He was searching for a
voice, the government says.
1295
01:06:30,375 --> 01:06:33,041
He wanted to become someone
1296
01:06:33,083 --> 01:06:36,041
and be known as smart and brave.
1297
01:06:36,083 --> 01:06:38,791
In his written confession,
he proudly stated,
1298
01:06:38,833 --> 01:06:40,875
- [Leon] "I made my plans
three or four days ago
1299
01:06:40,916 --> 01:06:42,416
"to shoot the president.
1300
01:06:42,458 --> 01:06:45,375
"When I shot him, I
intended to kill him.
1301
01:06:45,416 --> 01:06:47,500
"And the reason for my
intention in killing
1302
01:06:47,541 --> 01:06:51,625
"was because I did not
believe in presidents over us.
1303
01:06:51,666 --> 01:06:54,958
"I was willing to sacrifice
myself and the president
1304
01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:56,791
"for the benefit of the country.
1305
01:06:56,833 --> 01:06:59,291
"I felt I had more courage
than the average man
1306
01:06:59,333 --> 01:07:00,541
"in killing the president
1307
01:07:00,583 --> 01:07:02,750
"and was willing to put
my own life at stake
1308
01:07:02,791 --> 01:07:04,125
"in order to do it."
1309
01:07:04,166 --> 01:07:05,875
- He also wrote about
meetings he attended
1310
01:07:05,916 --> 01:07:07,375
with the anarchists,
1311
01:07:07,416 --> 01:07:10,625
a burgeoning political group
that impelled his shooting.
1312
01:07:11,416 --> 01:07:12,958
Czolgosz decried,
1313
01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:15,625
- [Leon] "I heard people talk
about the duty they were under
1314
01:07:15,666 --> 01:07:16,958
"to educate the people
1315
01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:19,250
"against the present form
of government,
1316
01:07:19,291 --> 01:07:21,125
"and they should do
all they could
1317
01:07:21,166 --> 01:07:23,166
"to change the form
of government."
1318
01:07:23,208 --> 01:07:25,916
- But who were the anarchists?
1319
01:07:25,958 --> 01:07:29,375
Many historians consider that
the first global terrorists
1320
01:07:29,416 --> 01:07:30,750
were the anarchists.
1321
01:07:31,833 --> 01:07:33,791
These were a
loosely-knit group of men
1322
01:07:33,833 --> 01:07:35,750
in both America and Europe
1323
01:07:35,791 --> 01:07:38,875
who believed in the
isolation of the individual.
1324
01:07:38,916 --> 01:07:40,958
They were advocates of
free thought,
1325
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:44,708
which included freedom
from religion and politics.
1326
01:07:44,750 --> 01:07:48,416
Anarchism in the 1890s
was all about the pursuit
1327
01:07:48,458 --> 01:07:52,208
of man's right to his own
tools, mind, and body.
1328
01:07:53,375 --> 01:07:56,041
He shall keep the
products of his own labor
1329
01:07:56,083 --> 01:07:58,166
without government interference.
1330
01:07:58,208 --> 01:08:01,333
This anti-political
philosophy, from time to time,
1331
01:08:01,375 --> 01:08:03,458
both in America and abroad,
1332
01:08:03,500 --> 01:08:06,375
manifested itself into a
dynamite bombing
1333
01:08:06,416 --> 01:08:08,208
or a shooting spree.
1334
01:08:08,250 --> 01:08:10,666
In the United States,
authorities believe
1335
01:08:10,708 --> 01:08:12,541
and newspapers reported
1336
01:08:12,583 --> 01:08:15,625
that a large swath of the
anarchists were foreigners
1337
01:08:15,666 --> 01:08:17,125
who had immigrated to America.
1338
01:08:18,416 --> 01:08:21,500
Whether this is true or
not is another story.
1339
01:08:21,541 --> 01:08:23,791
Also just a story
1340
01:08:23,833 --> 01:08:27,750
were most of the terrorist
acts attributed to anarchists.
1341
01:08:27,791 --> 01:08:29,625
There were numerous
media reports
1342
01:08:29,666 --> 01:08:33,583
of explosions, bomb blastings,
and even viral plagues
1343
01:08:33,625 --> 01:08:35,708
that never existed.
1344
01:08:35,750 --> 01:08:38,875
Alternatively, many who
committed terrorist acts
1345
01:08:38,916 --> 01:08:42,875
called themselves anarchist,
but really weren't.
1346
01:08:42,916 --> 01:08:44,833
And many other
attacks were deemed
1347
01:08:44,875 --> 01:08:47,166
carried out by the anarchists,
1348
01:08:47,208 --> 01:08:50,125
but the perpetrators
really had nothing to do
1349
01:08:50,166 --> 01:08:51,708
with this freethinking group.
1350
01:08:52,833 --> 01:08:54,833
The phony accounts were the norm
1351
01:08:54,875 --> 01:08:56,750
rather than the exception.
1352
01:08:56,791 --> 01:08:58,708
The government and
its media allies
1353
01:08:58,750 --> 01:09:01,791
used the alleged
anarchist terrorism
1354
01:09:01,833 --> 01:09:05,958
as a fear-baiting tool
to control its populace
1355
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:07,500
and to sell newspapers.
1356
01:09:08,708 --> 01:09:11,791
Thus fake news had its
roots with anarchism
1357
01:09:11,833 --> 01:09:14,791
in addition to modern
day terrorism.
1358
01:09:14,833 --> 01:09:19,041
And was Leon Czolgosz
actually an anarchist?
1359
01:09:19,083 --> 01:09:21,583
In the 1890s, there
was no shortage
1360
01:09:21,625 --> 01:09:24,291
of young men who were
screaming for attention
1361
01:09:24,333 --> 01:09:27,125
and longing to do daring things.
1362
01:09:27,166 --> 01:09:30,250
Leon Czolgosz was one of them,
1363
01:09:30,291 --> 01:09:34,750
and the anarchists with all
of their media-driven fanfare,
1364
01:09:34,791 --> 01:09:37,500
was a logical outlet to turn Mr.
Nobody
1365
01:09:37,541 --> 01:09:39,041
into Mr. Somebody.
1366
01:09:39,916 --> 01:09:42,208
In his quest for recognition,
1367
01:09:42,250 --> 01:09:45,625
Czolgosz did indeed attend
some anarchist meetings
1368
01:09:45,666 --> 01:09:47,583
in Chicago during the year prior
1369
01:09:47,625 --> 01:09:50,166
to the McKinley assassination.
1370
01:09:50,208 --> 01:09:52,125
But after the
president's shooting,
1371
01:09:52,166 --> 01:09:54,208
the anarchists did
everything they could
1372
01:09:54,250 --> 01:09:57,125
to distance themselves
from Czolgosz.
1373
01:09:57,166 --> 01:09:59,250
Could some group, more powerful
1374
01:09:59,291 --> 01:10:01,750
than the
sensationalized anarchists,
1375
01:10:01,791 --> 01:10:05,166
have learned of Czolgosz
through this publicity
1376
01:10:05,208 --> 01:10:08,791
and sought out this
disaffected, rejected young man
1377
01:10:09,666 --> 01:10:11,583
and seized upon his yearning
1378
01:10:11,625 --> 01:10:15,166
to transform from a
zero to a hero?
1379
01:10:15,208 --> 01:10:17,833
Was William McKinley's
assassination
1380
01:10:17,875 --> 01:10:21,125
really the work of a
loser lone gunman
1381
01:10:21,166 --> 01:10:23,791
with anarchist influences?
1382
01:10:23,833 --> 01:10:27,083
This government-skewed theory
is troubled at its core
1383
01:10:27,125 --> 01:10:29,291
with the revelation
of Czolgosz's
1384
01:10:29,333 --> 01:10:32,166
true tenuous anarchist ties
1385
01:10:32,208 --> 01:10:36,416
and the group's very public
disassociation with him,
1386
01:10:36,458 --> 01:10:39,666
not to mention the fake
news pandemic
1387
01:10:39,708 --> 01:10:41,791
that was metastasizing
during these times.
1388
01:10:43,291 --> 01:10:47,375
A more realistic explanation
for McKinley's assassination
1389
01:10:47,416 --> 01:10:51,291
was that it was carried
out via a devious plot
1390
01:10:51,333 --> 01:10:55,291
which incorporated Leon
Czolgosz as its patsy.
1391
01:10:55,333 --> 01:10:59,750
As a fact, we do know
that Czolgosz's bullets
1392
01:10:59,791 --> 01:11:02,541
didn't execute the fatal damage.
1393
01:11:02,583 --> 01:11:04,541
It took some medical malpractice
1394
01:11:04,583 --> 01:11:07,375
or another method of
blood poisoning
1395
01:11:07,416 --> 01:11:09,791
to complete the
exterminating task.
1396
01:11:09,833 --> 01:11:12,041
But who was behind this
presidential murder
1397
01:11:12,083 --> 01:11:15,166
if it wasn't just Leon Czolgosz
1398
01:11:15,208 --> 01:11:16,833
wanting to become Fred Somebody?
1399
01:11:18,208 --> 01:11:22,708
Who had a motive to kill
the U.S. president in 1901,
1400
01:11:22,750 --> 01:11:25,041
and who could get away
with it unscathed?
1401
01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:27,583
Who could manipulate the media
1402
01:11:27,625 --> 01:11:30,750
into portraying it as
an anarchist act
1403
01:11:30,791 --> 01:11:32,916
and get it all swept
under the carpet
1404
01:11:32,958 --> 01:11:34,708
before anyone could
learn the truth
1405
01:11:34,750 --> 01:11:36,708
behind this executive treachery?
1406
01:11:38,208 --> 01:11:41,375
Well, let's look at William
McKinley's political history
1407
01:11:41,416 --> 01:11:43,125
and his presidential goals,
1408
01:11:43,166 --> 01:11:46,583
and who had the most to
gain by eliminating him.
1409
01:11:46,625 --> 01:11:49,291
After doing battle in
the Civil War,
1410
01:11:49,333 --> 01:11:52,125
William McKinley began
his political career
1411
01:11:52,166 --> 01:11:54,916
as an American isolationist,
1412
01:11:54,958 --> 01:11:58,166
not in the sense of the
anarchists, of course, no.
1413
01:11:58,208 --> 01:12:00,875
He sought, like many
leaders of the time,
1414
01:12:00,916 --> 01:12:03,750
to keep America, as
much as possible,
1415
01:12:03,791 --> 01:12:07,583
economically independent
from the rest of the world.
1416
01:12:07,625 --> 01:12:09,958
He was a great proponent
of high tariffs
1417
01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:12,333
on foreign products.
1418
01:12:12,375 --> 01:12:14,666
As a Republican protectionist,
1419
01:12:14,708 --> 01:12:17,708
McKinley understood
that substantial tariffs
1420
01:12:17,750 --> 01:12:21,500
prevented the importation
of many international goods
1421
01:12:21,541 --> 01:12:24,250
because it made doing
business in the U.S.
1422
01:12:24,291 --> 01:12:26,291
too expensive for
many foreigners.
1423
01:12:27,291 --> 01:12:29,625
Another benefit of
the high tariffs
1424
01:12:29,666 --> 01:12:32,166
was that it generated
significant revenue
1425
01:12:32,208 --> 01:12:33,416
for the government,
1426
01:12:33,458 --> 01:12:35,833
thus downsizing the need to rely
1427
01:12:35,875 --> 01:12:38,916
upon American citizens'
hard-earned money
1428
01:12:38,958 --> 01:12:41,625
to pay for the
government's expenses.
1429
01:12:41,666 --> 01:12:45,625
In other words, it limited
the need for income taxes.
1430
01:12:46,916 --> 01:12:49,875
A natural result was that
American-made products
1431
01:12:49,916 --> 01:12:52,791
had much less
competition at home,
1432
01:12:52,833 --> 01:12:56,291
which allowed them to be
sold for greater prices.
1433
01:12:56,333 --> 01:12:59,000
The higher profits for
American industry
1434
01:12:59,041 --> 01:13:01,583
permitted higher wages
for American workers.
1435
01:13:02,916 --> 01:13:05,916
Did these protectionist
plans get McKinley killed
1436
01:13:05,958 --> 01:13:08,708
by angry agents of
foreign nations?
1437
01:13:09,833 --> 01:13:11,708
No, not at all.
1438
01:13:11,750 --> 01:13:14,000
McKinley's high tariff
agenda persisted
1439
01:13:14,041 --> 01:13:17,833
during his tenure in Congress
and as Ohio's governor.
1440
01:13:19,083 --> 01:13:22,625
It all ended when he
became president in 1896.
1441
01:13:23,958 --> 01:13:26,291
President McKinley was
thrown a curve ball
1442
01:13:26,333 --> 01:13:28,666
when he reluctantly
entered the United States
1443
01:13:28,708 --> 01:13:31,208
into the
Spanish-American War in 1898.
1444
01:13:32,583 --> 01:13:35,916
Upon the war's quick
conclusion in America's favor,
1445
01:13:35,958 --> 01:13:38,333
to the victors went the spoils.
1446
01:13:38,375 --> 01:13:41,666
And America gained several
territories from Spain,
1447
01:13:41,708 --> 01:13:46,541
including Puerto Rico, Wake,
Guam, and the Philippines.
1448
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:51,750
The U.S. also annexed the
Hawaiian Islands that summer.
1449
01:13:51,791 --> 01:13:54,625
American businessmen were
now much more excited
1450
01:13:54,666 --> 01:13:57,666
about the prospect of
overseas trade,
1451
01:13:57,708 --> 01:14:01,583
and thus William McKinley
was reborn as a free trader.
1452
01:14:03,166 --> 01:14:08,125
On September 5th, 1901, the
day before he was assassinated,
1453
01:14:09,125 --> 01:14:10,708
William McKinley
delivered a speech
1454
01:14:10,750 --> 01:14:14,083
to 50,000 people in New York,
proclaiming,
1455
01:14:14,125 --> 01:14:17,458
- [William] "Isolation is no
longer possible or desirable.
1456
01:14:17,500 --> 01:14:19,125
"The period of
exclusiveness is past.
1457
01:14:20,291 --> 01:14:22,583
"The expansion of our
trade and commerce
1458
01:14:22,625 --> 01:14:24,375
"is the pressing problem.
1459
01:14:24,416 --> 01:14:26,625
"Commercial wars are
unprofitable.
1460
01:14:26,666 --> 01:14:29,708
"A policy of good will and
friendly trade relations
1461
01:14:29,750 --> 01:14:32,416
"will prevent reprisals."
1462
01:14:32,458 --> 01:14:35,666
- Was William McKinley's
reversal on trade
1463
01:14:35,708 --> 01:14:38,375
and what it meant to
the private banks
1464
01:14:38,416 --> 01:14:41,333
the true cause of his
mortal demise?
1465
01:14:41,375 --> 01:14:46,333
In March 1900, the Gold Standard
Act of the United States
1466
01:14:46,375 --> 01:14:48,416
was signed by William McKinley.
1467
01:14:49,541 --> 01:14:52,916
This declared gold as
the only standard
1468
01:14:52,958 --> 01:14:55,291
for redeeming paper money,
1469
01:14:55,333 --> 01:14:57,000
and it was a knife in the gut
1470
01:14:57,041 --> 01:14:59,833
to the international
centralized banks
1471
01:14:59,875 --> 01:15:01,000
who had been in and out
1472
01:15:01,041 --> 01:15:03,666
of America's
money-issuing control
1473
01:15:03,708 --> 01:15:05,666
for the previous 100 years.
1474
01:15:06,750 --> 01:15:09,583
Under this act,
United States notes
1475
01:15:09,625 --> 01:15:12,250
became redeemable for gold
1476
01:15:12,291 --> 01:15:17,333
at the then historic
rate of $20.67 per ounce.
1477
01:15:19,041 --> 01:15:22,541
This bolstered U.S. notes'
credibility as money,
1478
01:15:22,583 --> 01:15:25,083
and it substantially
injured the strength
1479
01:15:25,125 --> 01:15:27,125
of private bank notes,
1480
01:15:27,166 --> 01:15:31,083
thus greatly diminishing
international bankers' profits.
1481
01:15:32,416 --> 01:15:35,583
Having just endured one of
the centralized bankers'
1482
01:15:35,625 --> 01:15:39,625
contrived panics, the
Panic of 1893,
1483
01:15:40,916 --> 01:15:43,833
the president was adamant
about the gold standard,
1484
01:15:43,875 --> 01:15:45,625
and he threatened
full enforcement,
1485
01:15:46,916 --> 01:15:49,958
so it wasn't directly
McKinley's trade policy
1486
01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:52,041
that threatened these banks.
1487
01:15:52,083 --> 01:15:54,041
It was the institution
of the gold standard.
1488
01:15:55,250 --> 01:15:58,375
Further enraging the
international bankers,
1489
01:15:58,416 --> 01:16:01,000
McKinley sent
negotiators to Europe
1490
01:16:01,041 --> 01:16:03,375
to attempt a silver
agreement with France
1491
01:16:03,416 --> 01:16:04,000
and Great Britain.
1492
01:16:05,291 --> 01:16:08,291
This would have made
large sums of silver money
1493
01:16:08,333 --> 01:16:10,333
available in the
cash-starved U.S.
1494
01:16:11,666 --> 01:16:15,750
McKinley, no doubt, had
become Enemy Number One
1495
01:16:15,791 --> 01:16:17,500
to these powerful banks.
1496
01:16:18,583 --> 01:16:21,833
The Gold Standard Act
declared that,
1497
01:16:21,875 --> 01:16:23,125
- [Narrator] "The gold
dollar shall be
1498
01:16:23,166 --> 01:16:25,166
"the standard unit of value,
1499
01:16:25,208 --> 01:16:27,958
"and all forms of money
issued or coined
1500
01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:30,750
"by the United States
shall be maintained
1501
01:16:30,791 --> 01:16:34,208
"at a parity of value with
this standard."
1502
01:16:34,250 --> 01:16:37,000
- Bank notes, U.S. notes,
1503
01:16:37,041 --> 01:16:39,416
and all other forms of money
1504
01:16:39,458 --> 01:16:43,166
had to conform to this standard.
1505
01:16:43,208 --> 01:16:46,291
No longer free to value
different forms of money
1506
01:16:46,333 --> 01:16:48,041
as they saw fit,
1507
01:16:48,083 --> 01:16:50,416
the international bankers
were constrained
1508
01:16:50,458 --> 01:16:51,916
from issuing paper money
1509
01:16:51,958 --> 01:16:54,583
that couldn't be
redeemed in gold.
1510
01:16:54,625 --> 01:16:58,500
The gold standard ensured
that the money supply
1511
01:16:58,541 --> 01:17:00,750
and hence the price level
1512
01:17:00,791 --> 01:17:03,583
would remain
relatively constant,
1513
01:17:03,625 --> 01:17:06,458
which of course was a
complete financial disaster
1514
01:17:06,500 --> 01:17:08,958
for the international
centralized bankers.
1515
01:17:10,083 --> 01:17:12,291
This all changed with
the assassination
1516
01:17:12,333 --> 01:17:13,541
of William McKinley.
1517
01:17:15,000 --> 01:17:17,250
For the gold standard to work,
1518
01:17:17,291 --> 01:17:20,625
banks were supposed to play
by the rules of the game.
1519
01:17:21,625 --> 01:17:23,833
They were supposed
to raise rates
1520
01:17:23,875 --> 01:17:25,291
to encourage gold inflow,
1521
01:17:26,583 --> 01:17:30,333
and to lower their rates
to create a gold outflow.
1522
01:17:30,375 --> 01:17:33,666
The centralized bankers
wanted to do neither.
1523
01:17:33,708 --> 01:17:37,291
And that's simply because
these gold standard rules
1524
01:17:37,333 --> 01:17:40,625
took money-issuing
control away from them
1525
01:17:40,666 --> 01:17:44,375
and caused them massive
monetary losses.
1526
01:17:44,416 --> 01:17:48,458
Very quickly after President
McKinley's 1901 assassination,
1527
01:17:48,500 --> 01:17:52,375
his successor, the very famous
and loved Theodore Roosevelt,
1528
01:17:53,708 --> 01:17:57,875
vastly limited the effect
of the Gold Standard Act,
1529
01:17:57,916 --> 01:18:00,791
and the international
bankers were back
1530
01:18:00,833 --> 01:18:03,000
in much better business.
1531
01:18:03,041 --> 01:18:07,708
Even more so, this
initiated the meteoric rise
1532
01:18:07,750 --> 01:18:11,166
and creation of the
Federal Reserve System.
1533
01:18:12,583 --> 01:18:15,291
With a motive of all
motives in place,
1534
01:18:15,333 --> 01:18:18,000
these bankers just
needed what was necessary
1535
01:18:18,041 --> 01:18:22,958
in the two prior presidential
assassinations, a patsy,
1536
01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:24,916
and wouldn't Leon Czolgosz,
1537
01:18:24,958 --> 01:18:28,083
with his anarchist ties
and his internal need
1538
01:18:28,125 --> 01:18:31,500
to become a somebody,
be the perfect choice?
1539
01:18:32,291 --> 01:18:34,541
So perhaps common sense
1540
01:18:34,583 --> 01:18:37,375
coupled with an
extraordinary motive
1541
01:18:37,416 --> 01:18:39,208
and a lot of history
1542
01:18:39,250 --> 01:18:42,875
makes it quite possible
that Leon Czolgosz
1543
01:18:42,916 --> 01:18:45,000
did not act alone,
1544
01:18:45,041 --> 01:18:49,083
and that instead, he was a
recruited patsy
1545
01:18:49,125 --> 01:18:51,041
for the international bankers
1546
01:18:51,083 --> 01:18:54,333
who needed William McKinley
and his Gold Standard Act
1547
01:18:54,375 --> 01:18:55,958
out of the way.
1548
01:18:56,000 --> 01:18:59,083
One added interesting note about
the McKinley assassination,
1549
01:19:00,541 --> 01:19:04,500
Leon Czolgosz was tried
within a week of his shooting,
1550
01:19:04,541 --> 01:19:07,000
convicted the very next day,
1551
01:19:07,041 --> 01:19:09,500
and executed in under a month.
1552
01:19:09,541 --> 01:19:11,416
That was almost as quick a path
1553
01:19:11,458 --> 01:19:14,916
to rid the world of JFK's
alleged lone assassin,
1554
01:19:14,958 --> 01:19:16,083
Lee Harvey Oswald.
1555
01:19:17,208 --> 01:19:19,833
As we all know, Oswald
was gunned down
1556
01:19:19,875 --> 01:19:21,833
at the Dallas Police Department
1557
01:19:21,875 --> 01:19:25,166
just two days after he
murdered John Kennedy.
1558
01:19:25,208 --> 01:19:27,625
Nice and tidy, get rid
of the killers
1559
01:19:27,666 --> 01:19:30,291
before they can speak
about any accomplices.
1560
01:19:30,333 --> 01:19:33,375
[eerie piano music]
1561
01:19:37,958 --> 01:19:42,416
You know the phrase "Where
there's smoke, there's fire?"
1562
01:19:42,458 --> 01:19:46,541
Three presidents, Abraham
Lincoln, James Garfield,
1563
01:19:46,583 --> 01:19:50,333
and William McKinley
instituted major upheavals
1564
01:19:50,375 --> 01:19:52,791
in the U.S. monetary system.
1565
01:19:52,833 --> 01:19:57,708
Specifically, they took power
of issuing America's money
1566
01:19:57,750 --> 01:20:01,791
away from the centralized
private banking cartels
1567
01:20:01,833 --> 01:20:06,208
and gave it to the U.S.
Treasury, to the people.
1568
01:20:06,250 --> 01:20:10,500
And then these three
presidents ended up dead.
1569
01:20:10,541 --> 01:20:14,708
But like I said, where
there's smoke there's fire,
1570
01:20:14,750 --> 01:20:16,208
and another gun was fired
1571
01:20:16,250 --> 01:20:18,500
that killed yet
another president,
1572
01:20:18,541 --> 01:20:21,916
a very famous one, John F.
Kennedy.
1573
01:20:23,083 --> 01:20:25,458
This man didn't just
upset Richard Nixon
1574
01:20:25,500 --> 01:20:27,500
in the presidential race
1575
01:20:27,541 --> 01:20:30,708
or communist Cuba with
the Bay of Pigs.
1576
01:20:30,750 --> 01:20:34,291
No, he upset something
much more powerful,
1577
01:20:34,333 --> 01:20:35,791
the Federal Reserve banks.
1578
01:20:36,958 --> 01:20:41,041
Since their insidious
inception in 1913,
1579
01:20:41,083 --> 01:20:44,375
no U.S. president had
ever dared to upset
1580
01:20:44,416 --> 01:20:47,416
their trillion dollar
cartel enterprise.
1581
01:20:47,458 --> 01:20:50,208
Kennedy, however, took them on.
1582
01:20:50,250 --> 01:20:52,625
But how often have you
heard about this?
1583
01:20:52,666 --> 01:20:56,958
What everyone has heard
about, almost ad nauseam,
1584
01:20:57,000 --> 01:21:00,416
are endless debates about
how Lee Harvey Oswald
1585
01:21:00,458 --> 01:21:04,083
could have assassinated
JFK on his own.
1586
01:21:04,125 --> 01:21:06,875
Was Oswald a good
enough marksman,
1587
01:21:06,916 --> 01:21:09,250
could he have gotten
off three separate shots
1588
01:21:09,291 --> 01:21:13,583
with his low-budget 6.5
millimeter Carcano rifle
1589
01:21:14,666 --> 01:21:17,500
in the very quick timing
of the shooting?
1590
01:21:17,541 --> 01:21:21,291
How did the magic bullet go
through both President Kennedy
1591
01:21:21,333 --> 01:21:22,958
and Texas Governor
John Connally?
1592
01:21:24,291 --> 01:21:27,208
These questions and
several more of their type,
1593
01:21:27,250 --> 01:21:30,208
you've heard over
and over again.
1594
01:21:31,416 --> 01:21:34,666
The Warren Commission,
a group of politicos
1595
01:21:34,708 --> 01:21:37,666
assigned by President Lyndon B.
Johnson
1596
01:21:37,708 --> 01:21:41,541
to officially investigate
JFK's assassination,
1597
01:21:41,583 --> 01:21:43,916
determined that
Oswald acted alone
1598
01:21:45,041 --> 01:21:46,875
and the assassination
was carried out
1599
01:21:46,916 --> 01:21:49,750
via three bullets fired by him.
1600
01:21:50,750 --> 01:21:52,625
The general consensus, however,
1601
01:21:53,250 --> 01:21:56,541
is that the Warren Commission's
findings were bogus
1602
01:21:56,583 --> 01:21:57,833
for numerous reasons.
1603
01:21:58,791 --> 01:22:00,791
Here are just a few examples.
1604
01:22:01,125 --> 01:22:05,125
Kennedy was killed while riding
in a convertible limousine
1605
01:22:05,166 --> 01:22:08,083
down a Dallas street
near Dealey Plaza.
1606
01:22:09,250 --> 01:22:10,750
Oswald's shooting position
1607
01:22:10,791 --> 01:22:13,541
at Dallas' School Book
Depository building
1608
01:22:13,583 --> 01:22:15,000
was behind the limousine.
1609
01:22:16,208 --> 01:22:18,458
But the majority of
witnesses interviewed
1610
01:22:18,500 --> 01:22:20,125
by the Warren Commission
1611
01:22:20,166 --> 01:22:22,833
said the shots came from
the right front.
1612
01:22:24,208 --> 01:22:28,250
Many testified that they
saw unidentified armed men
1613
01:22:28,291 --> 01:22:29,958
in the area.
1614
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:32,416
Three Dallas police
officers said
1615
01:22:32,458 --> 01:22:35,833
they came upon multiple
fake Secret Service agents.
1616
01:22:36,958 --> 01:22:39,333
Others provided evidence
to the Commission
1617
01:22:39,375 --> 01:22:43,375
that suggested a
radio-coordinated
assassination team
1618
01:22:43,416 --> 01:22:44,541
was at Dealey Plaza.
1619
01:22:45,875 --> 01:22:49,750
These type of discrepancies
go on and on and on.
1620
01:22:49,791 --> 01:22:52,625
No doubt the Warren
Commission's findings
1621
01:22:52,666 --> 01:22:54,666
had been rebuked,
1622
01:22:54,708 --> 01:22:56,916
and most intelligent
observers realized
1623
01:22:56,958 --> 01:23:00,083
that Lee Harvey Oswald
did not act alone
1624
01:23:00,125 --> 01:23:02,041
in assassinating John F.
Kennedy.
1625
01:23:03,458 --> 01:23:08,291
In 1979, even a Congressional
House Select Committee
1626
01:23:08,333 --> 01:23:12,208
found that JFK's
assassination was very likely
1627
01:23:12,250 --> 01:23:14,291
the product of a conspiracy.
1628
01:23:15,375 --> 01:23:18,708
But why, at whose behest?
1629
01:23:18,750 --> 01:23:23,208
There are, of course, numerous
propagandized theories.
1630
01:23:23,250 --> 01:23:28,000
Was it a conspiracy rooted in
Cuban government sympathizers,
1631
01:23:28,041 --> 01:23:31,750
or the work of the Mafia,
the CIA?
1632
01:23:31,791 --> 01:23:35,125
Or did Lyndon B. Johnson
want Kennedy dead
1633
01:23:35,166 --> 01:23:37,416
just so he could be
the Commander-in-Chief?
1634
01:23:38,541 --> 01:23:41,166
Were big corporate
defense contractors
1635
01:23:41,208 --> 01:23:42,791
behind the assassination
1636
01:23:42,833 --> 01:23:45,958
because they wanted an
escalation of the Vietnam War
1637
01:23:46,000 --> 01:23:47,500
and Kennedy resisted?
1638
01:23:48,541 --> 01:23:50,250
Or how about this theory,
1639
01:23:50,291 --> 01:23:52,875
that it was the vengeful
work of Richard Nixon?
1640
01:23:52,916 --> 01:23:54,958
Perhaps, think about this,
1641
01:23:56,250 --> 01:24:00,000
is all this battle over
how Lee Harvey Oswald
1642
01:24:00,041 --> 01:24:01,791
carried out the shooting
1643
01:24:01,833 --> 01:24:03,708
and whether it was him alone
1644
01:24:03,750 --> 01:24:07,000
or as part of one of these
many conspiracy theories
1645
01:24:07,041 --> 01:24:08,208
just being a smokescreen
1646
01:24:09,333 --> 01:24:12,750
to perhaps cover up the
one true plot
1647
01:24:12,791 --> 01:24:14,958
that is quite obvious
when you consider
1648
01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:16,583
the most basic of motives,
1649
01:24:17,791 --> 01:24:20,500
greed valued in the
trillions of dollars,
1650
01:24:21,458 --> 01:24:24,416
and a plot, as we have revealed,
1651
01:24:24,458 --> 01:24:26,291
that is steep in the history
1652
01:24:26,333 --> 01:24:29,125
of American presidential
assassinations?
1653
01:24:30,583 --> 01:24:32,291
Yes, it makes perfect sense
1654
01:24:32,333 --> 01:24:34,375
that John F. Kennedy
was executed
1655
01:24:34,416 --> 01:24:38,750
for the same sinister reasons
as his dead predecessors,
1656
01:24:38,791 --> 01:24:42,791
Abraham Lincoln, James
Garfield, and William McKinley.
1657
01:24:43,958 --> 01:24:45,958
But Kennedy took the
money-issuing power
1658
01:24:46,000 --> 01:24:48,250
away from the centralized
banking system
1659
01:24:48,291 --> 01:24:50,208
of the Federal Reserve.
1660
01:24:50,250 --> 01:24:53,333
In this big centralized
bank scenario,
1661
01:24:53,375 --> 01:24:56,166
a few of the potential
co-conspirators
1662
01:24:56,208 --> 01:24:58,625
identified in the
various theories,
1663
01:24:58,666 --> 01:25:00,625
very likely could
have been players
1664
01:25:00,666 --> 01:25:02,208
along with Lee Harvey Oswald.
1665
01:25:03,500 --> 01:25:06,083
Given that there surely
was a coordinated effort
1666
01:25:06,125 --> 01:25:09,666
at Dealey Plaza, who was
part of the hit team?
1667
01:25:09,708 --> 01:25:11,833
The Mafia, maybe.
1668
01:25:12,625 --> 01:25:16,291
The CIA, also maybe.
1669
01:25:16,333 --> 01:25:20,000
Cuban and other
communist sympathizers,
1670
01:25:20,041 --> 01:25:21,375
another good maybe.
1671
01:25:21,416 --> 01:25:23,375
After all, Lee
Harvey Oswald had,
1672
01:25:23,416 --> 01:25:28,250
a few years prior to the
killing, defected to Russia,
1673
01:25:28,291 --> 01:25:31,958
and his ties to Cuban interests
became public knowledge.
1674
01:25:33,083 --> 01:25:35,541
Could a conspiracy have
gone all the way
1675
01:25:35,583 --> 01:25:38,208
to the vice-president, Lyndon B.
Johnson?
1676
01:25:39,208 --> 01:25:41,333
The ultimate presidential power
1677
01:25:41,375 --> 01:25:44,583
is always a motive one
can't ignore.
1678
01:25:44,625 --> 01:25:48,958
And as we will see, Johnson
did immediately do something
1679
01:25:49,000 --> 01:25:51,958
after JFK's untimely death
1680
01:25:52,000 --> 01:25:55,250
that inextricably linked
him to the favoritism
1681
01:25:55,291 --> 01:25:57,375
of the Federal Reserve banks.
1682
01:25:58,208 --> 01:25:59,833
Now as for Oswald,
1683
01:25:59,875 --> 01:26:03,541
the Warren Commission did
seem to get one thing right.
1684
01:26:03,583 --> 01:26:06,958
When attempting to cite a
motive for this man, they wrote,
1685
01:26:07,000 --> 01:26:08,458
- [Warren Commission
Member] "Lee Harvey Oswald
1686
01:26:08,500 --> 01:26:11,791
"was perpetually discontented
with the world around him.
1687
01:26:11,833 --> 01:26:13,375
"Long before the assassination,
1688
01:26:13,416 --> 01:26:15,958
"he expressed his hatred
for American society
1689
01:26:16,000 --> 01:26:17,541
"and acted in protest
against it."
1690
01:26:18,958 --> 01:26:23,458
- In other words, Oswald was
the perfect pasty choice.
1691
01:26:23,500 --> 01:26:26,666
Much like the Garfield
and McKinley assassins,
1692
01:26:26,708 --> 01:26:29,500
he was a loner and loser,
1693
01:26:29,541 --> 01:26:33,666
but one who was on the
radar of powerful sources.
1694
01:26:33,708 --> 01:26:36,750
Remember, the government
was well aware
1695
01:26:36,791 --> 01:26:39,250
of the discontent that
Charles Guiteau had
1696
01:26:39,291 --> 01:26:40,958
with President Garfield
1697
01:26:41,000 --> 01:26:44,500
for not appointing him to a
coveted ambassador position.
1698
01:26:45,916 --> 01:26:49,250
And officials during President
McKinley's presidency
1699
01:26:49,291 --> 01:26:53,291
surely were well aware of
Leon Czolgosz's anarchist ties
1700
01:26:54,666 --> 01:26:57,791
and the group's very public
disassociation with him.
1701
01:26:58,916 --> 01:27:00,625
While John Wilkes Booth
was no loser,
1702
01:27:02,125 --> 01:27:04,916
many of influence knew of his
hatred of Abraham Lincoln.
1703
01:27:06,041 --> 01:27:09,125
All these men, including,
quite saliently,
1704
01:27:09,166 --> 01:27:13,208
Lee Harvey Oswald, were
easy to identify and recruit
1705
01:27:14,458 --> 01:27:17,291
into a plot that could
be sold to the public
1706
01:27:17,333 --> 01:27:21,250
as disaffected gunmen who
initiated their own plans
1707
01:27:21,291 --> 01:27:22,875
to kill the president.
1708
01:27:22,916 --> 01:27:25,250
But really, we know better.
1709
01:27:26,583 --> 01:27:30,708
In each of these cases,
there was a central group
1710
01:27:30,750 --> 01:27:34,333
with that much more
powerful motive
1711
01:27:34,375 --> 01:27:38,583
who had the resources to
orchestrate true conspiracies
1712
01:27:38,625 --> 01:27:42,583
using unwitting pawns in
their strategic processes.
1713
01:27:43,833 --> 01:27:47,125
Of course this group was
the centralized bankers.
1714
01:27:47,166 --> 01:27:49,291
In John F. Kennedy's murder,
1715
01:27:49,333 --> 01:27:54,000
this extremely likely
culprit was very specifically
1716
01:27:54,041 --> 01:27:56,250
the Federal Reserve,
1717
01:27:56,291 --> 01:27:59,916
the central bank of his
and our time.
1718
01:28:00,833 --> 01:28:03,375
But what exactly did Kennedy do
1719
01:28:03,416 --> 01:28:06,333
that so upset the
Federal Reserve banks
1720
01:28:06,375 --> 01:28:09,916
that would cause them to
seek his quick removal?
1721
01:28:09,958 --> 01:28:13,500
[suspenseful piano music]
1722
01:28:16,416 --> 01:28:19,291
When John F. Kennedy narrowly
defeated Richard Nixon
1723
01:28:19,333 --> 01:28:23,041
in the 1960
presidential election,
1724
01:28:23,083 --> 01:28:25,541
the Federal Reserve
bankers were elated.
1725
01:28:26,791 --> 01:28:30,125
Kennedy was the son of
one of the most powerful
1726
01:28:30,166 --> 01:28:32,416
and allegedly corrupt political
1727
01:28:32,458 --> 01:28:36,333
backroom bosses, Joseph Kennedy.
1728
01:28:36,375 --> 01:28:41,500
JFK's father had catapulted
to mega economic prosperity
1729
01:28:41,541 --> 01:28:43,583
through, among other things,
1730
01:28:43,625 --> 01:28:45,958
high-level dealings
in government
1731
01:28:46,000 --> 01:28:47,708
and the financial industry.
1732
01:28:48,791 --> 01:28:51,250
After many major
banking successes
1733
01:28:51,291 --> 01:28:55,208
and numerous purported
high-level criminal acts,
1734
01:28:55,250 --> 01:28:57,875
including a massive
bootlegging operation
1735
01:28:57,916 --> 01:28:59,000
during the Prohibition era,
1736
01:29:00,375 --> 01:29:03,916
Joseph Kennedy was appointed
by Franklin D. Roosevelt
1737
01:29:03,958 --> 01:29:05,375
to be the first chairman
1738
01:29:05,416 --> 01:29:07,791
of the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission.
1739
01:29:09,333 --> 01:29:13,500
In referring to this
appointment,
FDR infamously declared,
1740
01:29:13,541 --> 01:29:16,041
- [Franklin] "I'm getting
a crook to catch crooks."
1741
01:29:16,083 --> 01:29:17,833
- A well known
historical account
1742
01:29:17,875 --> 01:29:20,166
is that Joseph
Kennedy was obsessed
1743
01:29:20,208 --> 01:29:22,791
with getting his son
the presidency.
1744
01:29:22,833 --> 01:29:25,750
And a well-known telegraph
from the elder Kennedy
1745
01:29:25,791 --> 01:29:28,583
summed up his
philosophy as he wrote,
1746
01:29:28,625 --> 01:29:30,791
- [Joseph] "Don't buy a single
vote more than necessary,
1747
01:29:30,833 --> 01:29:33,708
"I'll be damned if I'm going
to pay for a landslide."
1748
01:29:33,750 --> 01:29:36,083
- Joseph Kennedy wanted
the absolute power
1749
01:29:36,125 --> 01:29:39,333
of the U.S. presidency
in the family,
1750
01:29:39,375 --> 01:29:41,666
but he also wanted to maintain
1751
01:29:41,708 --> 01:29:43,833
the hundreds of
millions of dollars
1752
01:29:43,875 --> 01:29:45,875
that he had accumulated.
1753
01:29:45,916 --> 01:29:49,000
May this be reminiscent
of the thought processes
1754
01:29:49,041 --> 01:29:51,916
embraced by the international
central bankers?
1755
01:29:52,791 --> 01:29:55,291
The banking cartels twofold goal
1756
01:29:55,333 --> 01:29:57,250
has forever been a mighty one,
1757
01:29:58,125 --> 01:30:00,958
control the issuing of the money
1758
01:30:01,000 --> 01:30:06,125
and obtain and retain the
ultimate level of political
power
1759
01:30:06,166 --> 01:30:07,291
and financial wealth.
1760
01:30:08,583 --> 01:30:12,083
No doubt with the Kennedy
family history in place,
1761
01:30:12,125 --> 01:30:14,291
the Federal Reserve felt
very comfortable
1762
01:30:14,333 --> 01:30:16,916
with the election of John F.
Kennedy.
1763
01:30:16,958 --> 01:30:19,833
Business as usual would
certainly persist
1764
01:30:19,875 --> 01:30:20,958
under his presidency.
1765
01:30:22,125 --> 01:30:26,208
But nay, JFK had other ideas.
1766
01:30:26,250 --> 01:30:30,458
With the stroke of a
pen on June 4th, 1963,
1767
01:30:30,500 --> 01:30:33,958
President Kennedy signed
Executive Order number 11110.
1768
01:30:36,791 --> 01:30:41,041
This order gave the U.S.
Treasury the power to, quote,
1769
01:30:41,083 --> 01:30:45,208
"Issue silver certificates
against any silver bullion,
1770
01:30:45,250 --> 01:30:49,125
"silver, or standard silver
dollars in the Treasury."
1771
01:30:50,291 --> 01:30:52,333
This meant that for every
ounce of silver
1772
01:30:52,375 --> 01:30:54,666
in the U.S. Treasury's vault,
1773
01:30:54,708 --> 01:30:57,541
the government could issue
new money into circulation.
1774
01:30:58,958 --> 01:31:02,750
This was very bad news for
the Federal Reserve banks.
1775
01:31:02,791 --> 01:31:07,083
You see, JFK had ambitious
plans to put a man on the moon,
1776
01:31:08,375 --> 01:31:12,583
develop an internationally
robust Peace Corps,
1777
01:31:12,625 --> 01:31:15,583
fund a growing war in Vietnam,
1778
01:31:15,625 --> 01:31:18,833
and further many social
reforms in a manner
1779
01:31:18,875 --> 01:31:22,500
that had never before been
accomplished in America.
1780
01:31:22,541 --> 01:31:25,833
To do so, he needed a
lot of money.
1781
01:31:27,250 --> 01:31:31,000
The Federal Reserve was
willing to issue this money,
1782
01:31:31,041 --> 01:31:32,208
but with big strings attached.
1783
01:31:33,708 --> 01:31:36,875
They wanted billions of dollars
in interest paid to them.
1784
01:31:37,958 --> 01:31:41,041
Sound familiar, sound
like a dilemma
1785
01:31:41,083 --> 01:31:43,166
that one Abraham Lincoln faced
1786
01:31:43,208 --> 01:31:45,541
when he needed to fund
the Civil War?
1787
01:31:46,500 --> 01:31:49,625
And what did old Honest Abe do
1788
01:31:49,666 --> 01:31:53,416
when the centralized bankers
wanted 35% in interest
1789
01:31:53,458 --> 01:31:54,416
paid to them?
1790
01:31:55,375 --> 01:31:57,500
He sidestepped them
1791
01:31:57,541 --> 01:32:00,833
and had the Treasury
issue U.S. bank notes,
1792
01:32:00,875 --> 01:32:04,333
specifically his greenbacks.
1793
01:32:04,375 --> 01:32:06,916
What did Mr. Kennedy do?
1794
01:32:06,958 --> 01:32:10,791
He also kicked the centralized
bankers to the curb.
1795
01:32:10,833 --> 01:32:12,916
When the Federal Reserve
banks demanded
1796
01:32:12,958 --> 01:32:16,041
their usual high interest rates,
1797
01:32:16,083 --> 01:32:19,500
JFK instituted Executive
Order number 11110
1798
01:32:22,000 --> 01:32:26,000
which allowed the U.S.
Treasury to issue its own money
1799
01:32:26,041 --> 01:32:27,291
backed by silver.
1800
01:32:28,125 --> 01:32:30,041
President Kennedy's action
1801
01:32:30,083 --> 01:32:33,750
put the Federal Reserve's
operations in serious jeopardy.
1802
01:32:34,958 --> 01:32:37,583
JFK's silver
certificate program,
1803
01:32:37,625 --> 01:32:39,833
if carried out as planned,
1804
01:32:39,875 --> 01:32:41,583
would have reduced the necessity
1805
01:32:41,625 --> 01:32:44,500
to borrow Federal Reserve notes.
1806
01:32:44,541 --> 01:32:47,083
If implemented faithfully,
1807
01:32:47,125 --> 01:32:51,208
Executive Order number 11110
1808
01:32:51,250 --> 01:32:53,291
would have given the
government the ability
1809
01:32:53,333 --> 01:32:57,416
to do all of the things
on JFK's agenda
1810
01:32:57,458 --> 01:33:01,666
without paying interest on
new Federal Reserve money.
1811
01:33:02,666 --> 01:33:04,000
This obviously would have been
1812
01:33:04,041 --> 01:33:08,958
a catastrophic financial
disaster for these banks.
1813
01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:12,833
So like Lincoln, who greatly
diminished the wealth and power
1814
01:33:12,875 --> 01:33:15,458
of the centralized bankers,
1815
01:33:15,500 --> 01:33:19,583
Kennedy was a major
obstacle for this cartel.
1816
01:33:19,625 --> 01:33:21,625
And what better way to
handle an obstacle
1817
01:33:21,666 --> 01:33:22,791
than to remove it?
1818
01:33:24,083 --> 01:33:27,750
In order for Executive
Order number 11110
1819
01:33:27,791 --> 01:33:32,083
to be eliminated, John F.
Kennedy had to be eliminated.
1820
01:33:33,208 --> 01:33:36,000
And on November 22, 1963,
1821
01:33:37,250 --> 01:33:39,875
just six months after
the president had signed
1822
01:33:39,916 --> 01:33:43,958
this historic order,
Kennedy was assassinated.
1823
01:33:44,916 --> 01:33:46,833
After JFK's murder,
1824
01:33:46,875 --> 01:33:48,958
no more silver
certificates were issued.
1825
01:33:50,083 --> 01:33:52,791
Lyndon B. Johnson,
Kennedy's successor,
1826
01:33:52,833 --> 01:33:57,083
ignored Executive Order 11110.
1827
01:33:57,125 --> 01:34:00,958
The Federal Reserve banking
cartel maintained its monopoly
1828
01:34:01,000 --> 01:34:04,666
to issue and control
America's money,
1829
01:34:04,708 --> 01:34:07,041
and no president since John F.
Kennedy
1830
01:34:07,083 --> 01:34:10,791
has sought to interfere
with this exclusive power.
1831
01:34:10,833 --> 01:34:14,541
The U.S. Treasury, the
natural and logical choice
1832
01:34:14,583 --> 01:34:17,166
to control and issue
America's money,
1833
01:34:17,208 --> 01:34:19,916
as it would save taxpayers
hundreds of billions
1834
01:34:19,958 --> 01:34:21,708
of dollars yearly,
1835
01:34:21,750 --> 01:34:23,208
is powerless in this regard.
1836
01:34:24,583 --> 01:34:29,000
So do you think Lee Harvey
Oswald hatched the plan
1837
01:34:29,041 --> 01:34:31,291
to assassinate JFK
1838
01:34:31,333 --> 01:34:33,666
and carried out the
murder on his own?
1839
01:34:35,000 --> 01:34:37,625
Well, perhaps he had a
little help from a friend,
1840
01:34:39,125 --> 01:34:43,125
a very wealthy and powerful
monster cartel of a friend.
1841
01:34:44,583 --> 01:34:48,916
Abraham Lincoln's monetary
policy, as codified in 1865
1842
01:34:48,958 --> 01:34:53,291
in U.S. Senate document
number 23 provides,
1843
01:34:53,333 --> 01:34:55,000
- [Narrator] "Money is
the creature of law,
1844
01:34:55,041 --> 01:34:57,750
"and the creation of the
original issue of money
1845
01:34:57,791 --> 01:35:00,416
"should be maintained as
the exclusive monopoly
1846
01:35:00,458 --> 01:35:02,000
"of national government."
1847
01:35:02,041 --> 01:35:04,708
- Of course the Federal
Reserve banks
1848
01:35:04,750 --> 01:35:08,916
and their predecessor
international centralized
bankers
1849
01:35:08,958 --> 01:35:10,750
couldn't have disagreed more
1850
01:35:10,791 --> 01:35:13,291
with Lincoln's monetary policy,
1851
01:35:13,333 --> 01:35:16,333
as well as those
instituted by Garfield,
1852
01:35:16,375 --> 01:35:20,041
McKinley, and most recently,
Kennedy.
1853
01:35:20,083 --> 01:35:23,291
These policies caused
massive monetary losses
1854
01:35:23,333 --> 01:35:24,833
to the centralized bankers,
1855
01:35:25,916 --> 01:35:29,375
men who have wielded the
greatest power
1856
01:35:29,416 --> 01:35:31,000
in ensuring their stranglehold
1857
01:35:31,041 --> 01:35:32,625
over the U.S. monetary system.
1858
01:35:33,833 --> 01:35:37,541
Louis T. McFadden, a
relentless congressman
1859
01:35:37,583 --> 01:35:39,791
who often took on the
Federal Reserve banks
1860
01:35:39,833 --> 01:35:42,666
as Chairman of the House
Banking Committee
1861
01:35:42,708 --> 01:35:44,708
back in the 1930s,
1862
01:35:44,750 --> 01:35:48,875
consistently explained
that monetary issues
1863
01:35:48,916 --> 01:35:50,750
shouldn't be partisan.
1864
01:35:50,791 --> 01:35:52,875
He criticized both the
Herbert Hoover
1865
01:35:52,916 --> 01:35:56,000
and Franklin Roosevelt
administrations.
1866
01:35:56,041 --> 01:35:59,541
In describing the Federal
Reserve, he remarked
1867
01:35:59,583 --> 01:36:04,000
in the 1932
Congressional Record that,
1868
01:36:04,041 --> 01:36:05,208
- [Louis] "We have in
this country
1869
01:36:05,250 --> 01:36:06,583
"one of the most
corrupt institutions
1870
01:36:06,625 --> 01:36:09,125
"the world has ever known.
1871
01:36:09,166 --> 01:36:11,750
"I refer to the Federal
Reserve Board
1872
01:36:11,791 --> 01:36:14,083
"and the Federal Reserve banks.
1873
01:36:14,125 --> 01:36:16,750
"The Federal Reserve
Board, a government board,
1874
01:36:16,791 --> 01:36:19,291
"has cheated the government
of the United States
1875
01:36:19,333 --> 01:36:21,250
"and the people of the
United States
1876
01:36:21,291 --> 01:36:24,083
"out of enough money to
pay the national debt.
1877
01:36:24,125 --> 01:36:26,416
"The depredations and
the iniquities
1878
01:36:26,458 --> 01:36:28,000
"of the Federal Reserve Board
1879
01:36:28,041 --> 01:36:30,833
"and the Federal Reserve
banks acting together
1880
01:36:30,875 --> 01:36:32,875
"have cost this
country enough money
1881
01:36:32,916 --> 01:36:36,083
"to pay the national
debt several times over.
1882
01:36:36,125 --> 01:36:38,833
"This evil institution
has impoverished
1883
01:36:38,875 --> 01:36:41,125
"and ruined the people
of the United States,
1884
01:36:41,166 --> 01:36:42,708
"has bankrupted itself,
1885
01:36:42,750 --> 01:36:45,250
"and has practically
bankrupted our government.
1886
01:36:45,291 --> 01:36:48,041
"It has done this through
the maladministration
1887
01:36:48,083 --> 01:36:50,833
"of that that law by which
the Federal Reserve Board
1888
01:36:50,875 --> 01:36:52,750
"and through the
corrupt practices
1889
01:36:52,791 --> 01:36:55,333
"of the money vultures
who control it."
1890
01:36:55,375 --> 01:36:57,541
- Congressman McFadden
additionally stated,
1891
01:36:58,958 --> 01:37:01,000
- [Louis] "Some people think
the Federal Reserve banks
1892
01:37:01,041 --> 01:37:03,500
"are United States
government institutions.
1893
01:37:03,541 --> 01:37:06,083
"They are not
government institutions.
1894
01:37:06,125 --> 01:37:07,875
"They are private
credit monopolies
1895
01:37:07,916 --> 01:37:10,291
"which prey upon the
people of the United States
1896
01:37:10,333 --> 01:37:13,625
"for the benefit of themselves
and their foreign customers,
1897
01:37:13,666 --> 01:37:16,625
"foreign and domestic
speculators and swindlers
1898
01:37:16,666 --> 01:37:19,083
"and rich and predatory
money lenders.
1899
01:37:19,125 --> 01:37:21,500
"In that dark crew of
financial pirates,
1900
01:37:21,541 --> 01:37:23,375
"there are those who
would cut a man's throat
1901
01:37:23,416 --> 01:37:25,125
"to get a dollar out
of his pocket.
1902
01:37:25,166 --> 01:37:27,250
"There are those who
send money into states
1903
01:37:27,291 --> 01:37:30,041
"to buy votes to control
our legislation,
1904
01:37:30,083 --> 01:37:31,583
"and there are those
who maintain
1905
01:37:31,625 --> 01:37:33,291
"an international propaganda
1906
01:37:33,333 --> 01:37:36,166
"for the purpose of deceiving
us and of wheedling us
1907
01:37:36,208 --> 01:37:38,583
"into the granting of
new concessions
1908
01:37:38,625 --> 01:37:41,750
"which will permit them to
cover up their past misdeeds
1909
01:37:41,791 --> 01:37:45,750
"and set again in motion
their gigantic train of crime.
1910
01:37:45,791 --> 01:37:48,125
"Those 12 private
credit monopolies
1911
01:37:48,166 --> 01:37:51,708
"were deceitfully and disloyally
foisted upon this country
1912
01:37:51,750 --> 01:37:53,708
"by bankers who came
here from Europe
1913
01:37:53,750 --> 01:37:56,250
"and who repaid us for
our hospitality
1914
01:37:56,291 --> 01:38:00,041
"by undermining our
American institutions."
1915
01:38:00,083 --> 01:38:02,958
- John F. Kennedy
understood this,
1916
01:38:03,000 --> 01:38:07,041
and he tried to muscle out
the Federal Reserve banks,
1917
01:38:07,083 --> 01:38:10,416
and thus, there was quite
a logical reason
1918
01:38:10,458 --> 01:38:11,833
for his assassination.
1919
01:38:12,875 --> 01:38:15,500
He took major money
issuing power
1920
01:38:15,541 --> 01:38:18,458
away from this banking cartel
1921
01:38:18,500 --> 01:38:21,250
and gave it back to the
people of the United States,
1922
01:38:21,291 --> 01:38:23,083
[eerie piano music]
1923
01:38:23,125 --> 01:38:25,000
and then he was killed.
1924
01:38:25,041 --> 01:38:27,375
The Federal Reserve banks
immediately got
1925
01:38:27,416 --> 01:38:28,916
what they desperately wanted
1926
01:38:28,958 --> 01:38:32,041
after President Kennedy's
assassination.
1927
01:38:32,083 --> 01:38:35,125
They once again
unilaterally controlled
1928
01:38:35,166 --> 01:38:37,041
the issuing of U.S. currency.
1929
01:38:37,916 --> 01:38:40,041
They once again had a business
1930
01:38:40,083 --> 01:38:44,583
that pays them literally
over $500 billion annually
1931
01:38:46,000 --> 01:38:49,708
through the interest they
charge to American taxpayers
1932
01:38:49,750 --> 01:38:51,500
for issuing our currency.
1933
01:38:52,458 --> 01:38:54,166
Was this a good enough reason
1934
01:38:54,208 --> 01:38:58,208
to launch a
conspiracy to kill JFK?
1935
01:38:59,541 --> 01:39:02,166
Is it just a coincidence
1936
01:39:02,208 --> 01:39:05,416
that all four
assassinated presidents,
1937
01:39:05,458 --> 01:39:10,500
Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley,
and Kennedy
1938
01:39:10,541 --> 01:39:13,416
were also the only
four presidents
1939
01:39:13,458 --> 01:39:16,416
who disallowed the central
bank's monopoly powers?
1940
01:39:17,833 --> 01:39:22,458
Is it also just a coincidence
that upon taking office,
1941
01:39:22,500 --> 01:39:24,333
each vice president who assumed
1942
01:39:24,375 --> 01:39:26,750
the Commander-in-Chief's post
1943
01:39:26,791 --> 01:39:30,666
immediately repealed the
decentralized banking orders
1944
01:39:30,708 --> 01:39:33,416
and re-instituted the
money-issuing powers
1945
01:39:33,458 --> 01:39:34,833
to the central banks?
1946
01:39:35,833 --> 01:39:36,916
I highly doubt it.
1947
01:39:38,166 --> 01:39:41,041
History does have a way
of repeating itself,
1948
01:39:41,083 --> 01:39:44,208
and what has history
definitively shown,
1949
01:39:45,291 --> 01:39:47,791
the only four
presidents who prevented
1950
01:39:47,833 --> 01:39:50,833
the international
banking cartels
1951
01:39:50,875 --> 01:39:52,541
from having the sole power
1952
01:39:52,583 --> 01:39:55,833
to issue and control U.S.
currency
1953
01:39:57,333 --> 01:40:01,583
are the only four presidents
who were ever assassinated,
1954
01:40:01,625 --> 01:40:05,166
Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield,
1955
01:40:05,208 --> 01:40:09,000
William McKinley, and
John Kennedy.
1956
01:40:09,041 --> 01:40:13,125
All were murdered after
taking action
1957
01:40:13,166 --> 01:40:17,041
to have money issued by the U.S.
Treasury,
1958
01:40:17,083 --> 01:40:21,500
not through centralized,
international private banks.
1959
01:40:21,541 --> 01:40:24,750
That is an undeniable fact.
1960
01:40:24,791 --> 01:40:26,791
[drum beating]
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