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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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[ominous piano music]
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[suspenseful electronic music]
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[ominous piano music]
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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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[eerie electronic music]
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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.
515
00:28:11,125 --> 00:28:12,166
But not Charles Guiteau.
516
00:28:13,416 --> 00:28:16,875
Oh, by the way, James
Garfield wanted the U.S.
517
00:28:16,916 --> 00:28:18,625
to return to the gold standard.
518
00:28:19,500 --> 00:28:21,000
Would this upset a socialist?
519
00:28:22,291 --> 00:28:24,000
Let's try to put it
all together.
520
00:28:24,041 --> 00:28:26,375
The United States
government's story
521
00:28:26,416 --> 00:28:29,333
is that Guiteau fired
a bullet into Garfield
522
00:28:29,375 --> 00:28:32,500
because he was enraged
that the president
523
00:28:32,541 --> 00:28:35,875
didn't appoint him to an
ambassador post.
524
00:28:35,916 --> 00:28:38,250
You see, Guiteau had
written a speech
525
00:28:38,291 --> 00:28:41,208
in favor of
Garfield's candidacy.
526
00:28:41,250 --> 00:28:44,333
According to official
historical accounts,
527
00:28:44,375 --> 00:28:47,416
Guiteau believed that
this speech was integral
528
00:28:47,458 --> 00:28:49,750
if not the deciding factor
529
00:28:49,791 --> 00:28:51,708
in leading to Garfield's victory
530
00:28:51,750 --> 00:28:56,791
over his Democrat
opponent, Winfield Hancock.
531
00:28:56,833 --> 00:29:00,250
Unfortunately for Guiteau,
no one else thought that.
532
00:29:00,291 --> 00:29:03,833
His speech, entitled
"Garfield versus Hancock,"
533
00:29:03,875 --> 00:29:07,708
was originally called
"Grant versus Hancock."
534
00:29:07,750 --> 00:29:09,750
That's because Guiteau
first believed
535
00:29:09,791 --> 00:29:13,750
that Ulysses S. Grant would
win the Republican nomination
536
00:29:13,791 --> 00:29:17,000
in the 1880
presidential election.
537
00:29:17,041 --> 00:29:21,791
When Grant lost the
nomination to Garfield,
538
00:29:21,833 --> 00:29:23,666
Guiteau changed the
title of his speech
539
00:29:23,708 --> 00:29:27,166
to "Garfield versus Hancock."
540
00:29:27,208 --> 00:29:29,958
With speech in hand,
Guiteau seemingly joined
541
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:31,916
the Garfield campaign.
542
00:29:31,958 --> 00:29:35,375
However, he never
publicly read the speech,
543
00:29:35,416 --> 00:29:39,250
and he only distributed a
few hundred written copies.
544
00:29:39,291 --> 00:29:42,166
The speech was criticized
because it was replete
545
00:29:42,208 --> 00:29:45,208
with references to
Grant's policies,
546
00:29:45,250 --> 00:29:47,500
which weren't necessarily
promulgated by Garfield.
547
00:29:48,958 --> 00:29:52,625
In a rush to switch the
speech to pertain to Garfield,
548
00:29:52,666 --> 00:29:54,583
Guiteau apparently was careless,
549
00:29:54,625 --> 00:29:58,083
and it read more like a
stump speech for Grant.
550
00:29:58,125 --> 00:30:00,791
The general consensus is
that his speech
551
00:30:00,833 --> 00:30:02,458
was wholly ineffective
552
00:30:02,500 --> 00:30:06,833
and had no bearing whatsoever
on Garfield's campaign.
553
00:30:06,875 --> 00:30:11,166
Still, most historians proclaim
that Guiteau was delusional
554
00:30:11,208 --> 00:30:15,458
and believed that his "Garfield
versus Hancock" speech
555
00:30:15,500 --> 00:30:18,291
was the linchpin to
Garfield's win.
556
00:30:18,333 --> 00:30:20,375
And after the election,
557
00:30:20,416 --> 00:30:24,083
Guiteau sought to be appointed
ambassador of Vienna.
558
00:30:24,125 --> 00:30:26,875
It is reported that he
bounced from Republican event
559
00:30:26,916 --> 00:30:30,166
to Republican event,
lobbying for this post
560
00:30:30,208 --> 00:30:34,291
and citing his speech as the
basis for the appointment.
561
00:30:34,333 --> 00:30:35,708
He visited the White House,
562
00:30:35,750 --> 00:30:38,375
even dropping off a
copy of his speech
563
00:30:38,416 --> 00:30:40,583
to the newly elected Garfield.
564
00:30:40,625 --> 00:30:42,583
And for the next few months,
565
00:30:42,625 --> 00:30:44,083
he bantered back and forth
566
00:30:44,125 --> 00:30:46,541
between the State Department
and the White House
567
00:30:46,583 --> 00:30:49,833
fervently advocating
his ambassadorship cause
568
00:30:49,875 --> 00:30:52,000
to Cabinet members
and whoever else
569
00:30:52,041 --> 00:30:54,708
in the power hierarchy
he could reach.
570
00:30:54,750 --> 00:30:59,000
Finally, Mr. Guiteau
advised that he would settle
571
00:30:59,041 --> 00:31:01,875
for a diplomatic post in Paris.
572
00:31:01,916 --> 00:31:04,958
He wasn't gaining much traction,
however.
573
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,458
Guiteau had been staying in
varied D.C. area boardinghouses,
574
00:31:09,291 --> 00:31:11,125
allegedly beating his bills
575
00:31:11,166 --> 00:31:13,750
and rarely changing his clothes.
576
00:31:13,791 --> 00:31:15,916
The government says
he was becoming
577
00:31:15,958 --> 00:31:18,416
more and more
desperate and crazed
578
00:31:18,458 --> 00:31:20,250
to earn his appointment.
579
00:31:20,291 --> 00:31:23,125
And after being banned
from the White House,
580
00:31:23,166 --> 00:31:26,791
he approached Secretary
of State James G. Blaine
581
00:31:26,833 --> 00:31:28,375
who reportedly told him,
582
00:31:28,416 --> 00:31:29,750
- [James] "Never
speak to me again
583
00:31:29,791 --> 00:31:32,708
"of the Paris consulship
as long as you live."
584
00:31:34,958 --> 00:31:36,916
- Run-of-the-mill
historical accounts
585
00:31:36,958 --> 00:31:39,208
provide that the sum total
586
00:31:39,250 --> 00:31:42,208
of this Garfield
Administration rebuke
587
00:31:42,250 --> 00:31:46,833
resulted in Guiteau electing
to assassinate the president.
588
00:31:46,875 --> 00:31:49,500
More so, it is said that
Guiteau declared
589
00:31:49,541 --> 00:31:54,250
that a higher power commanded
him to kill President Garfield
590
00:31:54,291 --> 00:31:55,625
and that he stated,
591
00:31:55,666 --> 00:32:00,041
- [Charles] "I leave my
justification to God."
592
00:32:00,083 --> 00:32:03,708
- God's command and
Justification for the shooting,
593
00:32:03,750 --> 00:32:07,708
of course, was rooted in
Garfield's lack of gratitude
594
00:32:07,750 --> 00:32:09,416
for Guiteau's speech
595
00:32:09,458 --> 00:32:11,791
until his decision to not
appoint Guiteau
596
00:32:11,833 --> 00:32:14,208
to one of the
diplomatic positions.
597
00:32:14,250 --> 00:32:16,000
Now, would God do that?
598
00:32:16,958 --> 00:32:18,791
Would a crazy person even think
599
00:32:18,833 --> 00:32:21,416
that God would issue
such an order?
600
00:32:21,458 --> 00:32:25,208
Maybe, maybe there was
something more to this.
601
00:32:26,291 --> 00:32:28,541
Do you know what else James A.
Garfield
602
00:32:28,583 --> 00:32:31,375
pushed extremely hard for?
603
00:32:31,416 --> 00:32:33,875
A hint, it was something
604
00:32:33,916 --> 00:32:37,541
that the first assassinated
president was known for,
605
00:32:37,583 --> 00:32:40,375
civil rights for
black Americans.
606
00:32:40,416 --> 00:32:44,333
While Abraham Lincoln freed
the slaves as U.S. President,
607
00:32:44,375 --> 00:32:47,166
James Garfield was one
of his loyal soldiers
608
00:32:47,208 --> 00:32:49,208
in the U.S. Congress.
609
00:32:49,250 --> 00:32:53,791
Garfield was a staunch
abolitionist
prior to the Civil War,
610
00:32:53,833 --> 00:32:57,958
and he became a brigadier
general at only 31 years old,
611
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,791
successfully leading
the Union troops
612
00:33:00,833 --> 00:33:03,125
against the Confederates
in a famous battle
613
00:33:03,166 --> 00:33:04,708
at Middle Creek, Kentucky.
614
00:33:05,708 --> 00:33:07,791
After Lincoln's assassination,
615
00:33:07,833 --> 00:33:11,250
Garfield become one of the
strongest voices in Congress
616
00:33:11,291 --> 00:33:13,166
in favor of civil rights
617
00:33:13,208 --> 00:33:15,458
for not only the
newly-freed slaves
618
00:33:15,500 --> 00:33:18,500
but for all blacks
across America.
619
00:33:18,541 --> 00:33:22,083
He was a proponent of
increased black education,
620
00:33:22,125 --> 00:33:25,500
and he actually called
for black suffrage rights.
621
00:33:26,541 --> 00:33:28,166
Now there was a
direct connection
622
00:33:28,208 --> 00:33:31,166
between Abraham Lincoln
and James Garfield.
623
00:33:31,208 --> 00:33:33,041
Both men were
opposed to slavery.
624
00:33:34,208 --> 00:33:36,708
But was this civil rights
unity something
625
00:33:36,750 --> 00:33:39,291
that would have caused
either of their assassins
626
00:33:39,333 --> 00:33:40,958
to pull the trigger?
627
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:45,625
After all, this was the most
divisive issue of their time.
628
00:33:45,666 --> 00:33:48,208
Of course, we all know
that Lincoln's murderer,
629
00:33:48,250 --> 00:33:52,625
John Wilkes Booth, was an
ardent Confederate sympathizer
630
00:33:52,666 --> 00:33:55,875
who hated Lincoln for
making slavery illegal
631
00:33:55,916 --> 00:33:56,958
in the Southern states.
632
00:33:58,166 --> 00:34:00,375
But there is no evidence
that Charles Guiteau
633
00:34:00,416 --> 00:34:02,458
was influenced by this matter
634
00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:03,916
or that he was even concerned
635
00:34:03,958 --> 00:34:05,916
with the civil rights
movement at all.
636
00:34:07,166 --> 00:34:08,208
There is evidence, though,
637
00:34:08,250 --> 00:34:10,916
that both Guiteau and
Booth were angry
638
00:34:10,958 --> 00:34:12,916
at their
then-respective presidents.
639
00:34:13,958 --> 00:34:16,041
The government's
historical accounts
640
00:34:16,083 --> 00:34:19,875
present different reasons
for their presidential rage.
641
00:34:19,916 --> 00:34:22,375
However, at their
respective times,
642
00:34:22,416 --> 00:34:25,000
their disdain was no secret.
643
00:34:25,041 --> 00:34:30,000
And when anger is revealed,
sometimes it can be seized upon.
644
00:34:30,041 --> 00:34:32,375
There is known
substantial evidence
645
00:34:32,416 --> 00:34:35,375
which shows that both
John Wilkes Booth
646
00:34:35,416 --> 00:34:38,791
and Lee Harvey Oswald,
JFK's killer,
647
00:34:38,833 --> 00:34:41,916
were recruited and
used as patsies
648
00:34:41,958 --> 00:34:45,458
by other higher powers to
commit their assassinations.
649
00:34:46,583 --> 00:34:48,708
May the same be true with
Charles Guiteau?
650
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,625
Was there a conspiracy
to murder James Garfield?
651
00:34:53,666 --> 00:34:56,458
And if so, was Charles
Guiteau recruited
652
00:34:56,500 --> 00:34:58,000
to be the trigger man
653
00:34:58,041 --> 00:35:00,708
because of his well-known
hatred for Garfield?
654
00:35:01,750 --> 00:35:03,875
And because it was
also well known
655
00:35:03,916 --> 00:35:06,250
that he was clinically insane,
656
00:35:06,291 --> 00:35:09,375
or could Charles Guiteau have
been completely rational?
657
00:35:10,583 --> 00:35:13,125
And could his socialist
ideology have been
658
00:35:13,166 --> 00:35:15,625
the core motive for
the shooting?
659
00:35:15,666 --> 00:35:18,875
Either way, an insane
man with a motive
660
00:35:18,916 --> 00:35:21,958
or a cult-like
ideologue with a motive
661
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,916
makes for a good
choice to conscript
662
00:35:23,958 --> 00:35:26,541
into an assassination plot.
663
00:35:26,583 --> 00:35:28,458
But who would want to
enlist Guiteau,
664
00:35:29,583 --> 00:35:31,833
and what would be these
person's motives
665
00:35:31,875 --> 00:35:33,791
to murder a president?
666
00:35:33,833 --> 00:35:37,666
James Garfield actively opposed
cooperative farm programs
667
00:35:37,708 --> 00:35:40,375
such as those supported
by the Grange,
668
00:35:40,416 --> 00:35:42,750
an agrarian organization.
669
00:35:42,791 --> 00:35:46,208
Recall who else employed
communal property programs?
670
00:35:46,250 --> 00:35:48,916
Yes, the Oneida Community,
671
00:35:48,958 --> 00:35:51,250
which Guiteau was a
longtime member of.
672
00:35:52,333 --> 00:35:54,875
Garfield also opposed
labor unions,
673
00:35:54,916 --> 00:35:57,458
mandatory maximum
eight-hour workdays,
674
00:35:57,500 --> 00:36:02,000
and federally funded relief,
welfare-type projects.
675
00:36:02,041 --> 00:36:06,083
Yes, James Garfield was
not a big government guy.
676
00:36:06,125 --> 00:36:08,916
He was the furthest
thing from a socialist.
677
00:36:08,958 --> 00:36:11,125
He was known for saying
that these liberal,
678
00:36:11,166 --> 00:36:13,583
cooperative, and labor
policies equated
679
00:36:13,625 --> 00:36:16,666
to communism in disguise,
680
00:36:16,708 --> 00:36:18,791
and also remember this.
681
00:36:18,833 --> 00:36:21,583
James Garfield was an
outspoken advocate
682
00:36:21,625 --> 00:36:23,458
of the gold standard.
683
00:36:23,500 --> 00:36:25,916
Arguments among
congressmen raged
684
00:36:25,958 --> 00:36:28,916
between those who wanted
all U.S. money
685
00:36:28,958 --> 00:36:30,750
to be backed by gold
686
00:36:30,791 --> 00:36:34,708
versus those who demanded
that paper currency be issued
687
00:36:34,750 --> 00:36:38,125
along with silver being
coined in greater quantities.
688
00:36:38,166 --> 00:36:41,625
These greenbackers and
Silver Rights opine
689
00:36:41,666 --> 00:36:45,500
that such a monetary system
would aid in debt relief,
690
00:36:45,541 --> 00:36:48,250
especially for
distressed farmers.
691
00:36:48,291 --> 00:36:50,333
Garfield rebuked them,
692
00:36:50,375 --> 00:36:55,250
instead promoting hard-money
policies backed by gold.
693
00:36:55,291 --> 00:36:58,083
Before being elected to
the presidency,
694
00:36:58,125 --> 00:36:59,875
Garfield was the chairman
695
00:36:59,916 --> 00:37:02,750
of Congress's Banking
and Currency Committee.
696
00:37:02,791 --> 00:37:04,166
He was also a key member
697
00:37:04,208 --> 00:37:06,666
of the House Ways and
Means Committee.
698
00:37:06,708 --> 00:37:09,541
There, he strongly backed
the hard-money,
699
00:37:09,583 --> 00:37:11,583
gold standard initiatives,
700
00:37:11,625 --> 00:37:14,250
and he was a major proponent
of the U.S. government
701
00:37:14,291 --> 00:37:16,041
issuing its own money
702
00:37:16,083 --> 00:37:18,875
instead of the private
centralized banks.
703
00:37:18,916 --> 00:37:23,375
[suspenseful electronic music]
704
00:37:23,416 --> 00:37:26,583
By fighting against the
issuance of paper currency
705
00:37:26,625 --> 00:37:28,583
not supported by gold,
706
00:37:28,625 --> 00:37:31,958
as well as advocating for
the use of greenback dollars
707
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,458
issued under Abraham Lincoln
during the Civil War,
708
00:37:35,500 --> 00:37:38,166
Garfield became a target
of those in favor
709
00:37:38,208 --> 00:37:39,500
of soft money policies.
710
00:37:41,208 --> 00:37:43,708
While his hard-money
stance made him popular
711
00:37:43,750 --> 00:37:46,125
with many Gold Bug Republicans
712
00:37:46,166 --> 00:37:47,916
who wanted to thwart
the country's
713
00:37:47,958 --> 00:37:50,333
ever-expanding money supply,
714
00:37:50,375 --> 00:37:53,416
it certainly infuriated
many of those higher powers
715
00:37:53,458 --> 00:37:55,250
in the private banking industry.
716
00:37:56,458 --> 00:37:58,291
And that's because they
stood to make
717
00:37:58,333 --> 00:38:01,625
billions of dollars in
the late 19th century
718
00:38:01,666 --> 00:38:04,500
by controlling and
issuing the U.S. currency.
719
00:38:05,583 --> 00:38:06,791
During his campaign,
720
00:38:06,833 --> 00:38:08,875
Garfield had a lot of opposition
721
00:38:08,916 --> 00:38:12,708
from the Stalwarts faction
of his Republican party.
722
00:38:12,750 --> 00:38:15,416
This group were allied
with the deep state power
723
00:38:15,458 --> 00:38:17,708
of the international
banking chieftains.
724
00:38:18,833 --> 00:38:21,208
The Stalwarts pushed for
Chester A. Arthur
725
00:38:21,250 --> 00:38:22,166
to be Garfield's running mate.
726
00:38:23,708 --> 00:38:28,541
To mend fences and maintain
party cohesion, Garfield agreed,
727
00:38:28,583 --> 00:38:30,750
and Arthur became his
vice president.
728
00:38:31,458 --> 00:38:32,916
It's interesting to note
729
00:38:32,958 --> 00:38:36,250
that as Charles Guiteau was
being wrestled to the ground
730
00:38:36,291 --> 00:38:38,541
after shooting Garfield,
he screamed,
731
00:38:38,583 --> 00:38:41,166
- [Charles] "I am a
stalwart of the Stalwarts,
732
00:38:41,208 --> 00:38:44,083
"and Arthur will be president."
733
00:38:44,125 --> 00:38:47,125
- No doubt Chester A.
Arthur did become president
734
00:38:47,166 --> 00:38:50,166
upon Garfield dying
from his gunshot wounds.
735
00:38:51,041 --> 00:38:52,333
Did the Stalwarts
736
00:38:52,375 --> 00:38:55,791
and their centralized
banking industry bosses
737
00:38:55,833 --> 00:38:59,958
conspire with Charles Guiteau
to murder James Garfield
738
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,916
because he wanted to take
enormous power and wealth
739
00:39:02,958 --> 00:39:04,083
away from them,
740
00:39:05,333 --> 00:39:07,375
because he didn't want
these bank moguls
741
00:39:07,416 --> 00:39:10,041
to issue paper money
and coin silver,
742
00:39:11,041 --> 00:39:13,208
because he was a
presidential voice
743
00:39:13,250 --> 00:39:15,166
for the gold standard,
744
00:39:15,208 --> 00:39:17,583
and because he wanted the U.S.
government,
745
00:39:17,625 --> 00:39:21,166
on behalf of the people,
to issue its own money
746
00:39:21,208 --> 00:39:23,875
and not international
private bankers?
747
00:39:24,875 --> 00:39:26,916
'Cause in that scenario,
748
00:39:26,958 --> 00:39:30,208
Garfield was literally
stripping billions of dollars
749
00:39:30,250 --> 00:39:31,375
from these private banks.
750
00:39:32,750 --> 00:39:34,250
Could this greed and power
[cash register dinging]
751
00:39:34,291 --> 00:39:35,750
have been the true reason
752
00:39:35,791 --> 00:39:38,750
for President
Garfield's fatal demise?
753
00:39:38,791 --> 00:39:41,208
The centralized banks
are quite adverse
754
00:39:41,250 --> 00:39:43,666
to credit-based fiat money
755
00:39:43,708 --> 00:39:46,500
delivered directly
into circulation
756
00:39:46,541 --> 00:39:47,916
by the federal government.
757
00:39:48,916 --> 00:39:50,625
This type of money
assists people
758
00:39:50,666 --> 00:39:53,791
in escaping debt slavery
as it does not come
759
00:39:53,833 --> 00:39:56,166
with interest strings attached.
760
00:39:56,208 --> 00:39:58,500
Garfield had plans for the U.S.
Treasury,
761
00:39:59,625 --> 00:40:01,791
and not the centralized
private banks,
762
00:40:01,833 --> 00:40:05,791
to issue dollars directly
into the U.S. economy,
763
00:40:05,833 --> 00:40:09,750
following in the footsteps of
his mentor, Abraham Lincoln,
764
00:40:09,791 --> 00:40:13,541
who did just that to
finance the Civil War.
765
00:40:13,583 --> 00:40:17,250
Unfortunately, Garfield also
followed Lincoln's footsteps
766
00:40:17,291 --> 00:40:21,041
into an untimely,
unfinished presidential term
767
00:40:21,083 --> 00:40:23,125
that ended in a graveyard.
768
00:40:23,166 --> 00:40:26,416
During his inaugural speech,
President Garfield said,
769
00:40:27,750 --> 00:40:29,958
- [James] "Whoever controls
the volume of money
770
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,666
"in any country is
absolute master of
771
00:40:32,708 --> 00:40:36,166
"all industry and commerce."
[people cheering]
772
00:40:36,208 --> 00:40:39,166
- Garfield had wanted the U.S.
Treasury,
773
00:40:39,208 --> 00:40:42,625
the people of the United
States, to have this control,
774
00:40:42,666 --> 00:40:45,875
and not some foreign,
private bankers.
775
00:40:45,916 --> 00:40:47,916
Officials would have you believe
776
00:40:47,958 --> 00:40:50,083
that James Garfield's
assassination
777
00:40:50,125 --> 00:40:54,250
was carried out by a lone
nut wrought with wrath
778
00:40:54,291 --> 00:40:57,625
over a lack of a
political appointment,
779
00:40:57,666 --> 00:40:59,583
that is was an act perpetrated
780
00:40:59,625 --> 00:41:02,541
by this one,
singular insane man.
781
00:41:03,833 --> 00:41:05,916
But it appears there
were indeed others
782
00:41:05,958 --> 00:41:09,083
who were involved in James
Garfield's assassination,
783
00:41:10,125 --> 00:41:11,500
men who cared a whole lot
784
00:41:11,541 --> 00:41:13,708
about the United States
monetary system
785
00:41:13,750 --> 00:41:14,666
and about who controlled it.
786
00:41:16,125 --> 00:41:20,000
James Garfield's quest to
re-institute the gold standard
787
00:41:20,041 --> 00:41:23,583
and have currency issued
directly by the U.S. government
788
00:41:23,625 --> 00:41:26,166
greatly angered these men.
789
00:41:26,208 --> 00:41:29,041
The same as Charles
Guiteau was greatly enraged
790
00:41:29,083 --> 00:41:30,916
by Garfield's failure to grant
791
00:41:30,958 --> 00:41:34,166
his desired
political appointment
792
00:41:34,208 --> 00:41:38,458
and/or Garfield's gold
standard capitalism ideology.
793
00:41:39,833 --> 00:41:43,541
Putting this together
renders one likely outcome,
794
00:41:43,583 --> 00:41:48,333
that these higher human
powers, not Godly powers,
795
00:41:48,375 --> 00:41:52,916
recruited Guiteau and used
him as their gunman fall guy.
796
00:41:54,583 --> 00:41:57,958
[typewriter chattering]
797
00:42:01,375 --> 00:42:03,625
A bizarre tragic footnote
798
00:42:03,666 --> 00:42:06,666
to James Garfield's
assassination
799
00:42:06,708 --> 00:42:09,041
was that he did not
die immediately
800
00:42:09,083 --> 00:42:12,458
from the gunshot wound
inflicted by Guiteau.
801
00:42:12,500 --> 00:42:15,833
He actually passed away two
and a half months later,
802
00:42:15,875 --> 00:42:18,541
on September 19th, 1881.
803
00:42:19,625 --> 00:42:22,125
Many medical experts and
historians argue
804
00:42:22,166 --> 00:42:25,708
that Garfield would have
survived the shooting,
805
00:42:25,750 --> 00:42:29,291
and that severely botched
treatment by his doctors
806
00:42:29,333 --> 00:42:31,750
was the true proximate
cause of his death.
807
00:42:32,916 --> 00:42:35,416
Unsanitary medical
instruments were used
808
00:42:35,458 --> 00:42:38,958
to treat the president
immediately after the attack.
809
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:40,500
In the weeks that followed,
810
00:42:40,541 --> 00:42:44,666
many other unsterilized
probing fingers and devices
811
00:42:44,708 --> 00:42:46,750
were inserted into
Garfield's body
812
00:42:46,791 --> 00:42:48,000
searching for the bullet.
813
00:42:49,041 --> 00:42:51,083
Even though newer
medical technology
814
00:42:51,125 --> 00:42:55,583
for the treatment of gunshot
wounds had emerged by 1881,
815
00:42:55,625 --> 00:42:58,208
Garfield's doctors
were old school
816
00:42:58,250 --> 00:43:01,083
and were adamant about
their methods.
817
00:43:01,125 --> 00:43:04,125
The combination of this
outdated treatment
818
00:43:04,166 --> 00:43:07,416
with the constant
unsanitary conditions
819
00:43:07,458 --> 00:43:10,041
caused Garfield to
suffer gravely
820
00:43:10,083 --> 00:43:13,000
as he spiraled towards death.
821
00:43:13,041 --> 00:43:15,458
Infections caused
blood poisoning
822
00:43:15,500 --> 00:43:19,666
and his inability to
intake and digest any food.
823
00:43:19,708 --> 00:43:23,708
The president lost nearly
100 pounds before he died,
824
00:43:23,750 --> 00:43:26,208
and ultimately succumbed
to heart failure.
825
00:43:27,375 --> 00:43:29,833
Could his medical
doctors have been engaged
826
00:43:29,875 --> 00:43:32,416
in a further plot to
kill Garfield
827
00:43:32,458 --> 00:43:34,458
once it was learned that
Guiteau's bullet
828
00:43:34,500 --> 00:43:36,000
didn't complete the job?
829
00:43:37,083 --> 00:43:39,208
That would seem rather unlikely,
830
00:43:39,250 --> 00:43:41,708
as it appears that he was
just the victim
831
00:43:41,750 --> 00:43:44,458
of good old-fashioned
medical malpractice.
832
00:43:45,458 --> 00:43:48,208
What is extremely likely,
however,
833
00:43:48,250 --> 00:43:51,041
is that the fired bullet
was at the fingertip
834
00:43:51,083 --> 00:43:52,625
of Charles Guiteau
835
00:43:52,666 --> 00:43:56,291
connected to the arms
of the very concerned
836
00:43:56,333 --> 00:44:00,250
and very angry centralized
banking cartel,
837
00:44:00,291 --> 00:44:02,333
the same banking cartel
838
00:44:02,375 --> 00:44:05,125
that was equally worried
and infuriated
839
00:44:05,166 --> 00:44:07,375
just 16 years earlier
840
00:44:07,416 --> 00:44:09,333
when Abraham Lincoln was shot
841
00:44:09,375 --> 00:44:11,416
by John Wilkes Booth.
842
00:44:11,458 --> 00:44:14,916
[melancholy piano music]
843
00:44:20,416 --> 00:44:23,083
President Lincoln had
asked the private bankers
844
00:44:23,125 --> 00:44:26,333
for a loan to finance
the Civil War
845
00:44:26,375 --> 00:44:31,416
and was quoted rates ranging
from 24 to 36% interest.
846
00:44:32,666 --> 00:44:36,208
In a a November 21st,
1862 letter
847
00:44:36,250 --> 00:44:39,583
from Lincoln to his friend,
William Elkin,
848
00:44:39,625 --> 00:44:41,625
the president declared,
849
00:44:41,666 --> 00:44:43,375
- [Abraham] "The
government should create,
850
00:44:43,416 --> 00:44:45,458
"issue and circulate
all the currency
851
00:44:45,500 --> 00:44:47,916
"and credit needed to
satisfy the spending power
852
00:44:47,958 --> 00:44:51,833
"of the government and the
buying power of consumers.
853
00:44:51,875 --> 00:44:53,958
"The privilege of
creating and issuing money
854
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,875
"is not only the supreme
prerogative of government,
855
00:44:56,916 --> 00:45:00,833
"but it is the government's
greatest creative opportunity.
856
00:45:00,875 --> 00:45:02,791
"By the adoption of
these principles,
857
00:45:02,833 --> 00:45:05,416
"the long-felt want for a
uniform medium
858
00:45:05,458 --> 00:45:07,458
"will be satisfied.
859
00:45:07,500 --> 00:45:10,708
"The taxpayers will be saved
immense sums of interest,
860
00:45:10,750 --> 00:45:12,875
"discounts, and exchanges,
861
00:45:12,916 --> 00:45:15,666
"the financing of all
public enterprises,
862
00:45:15,708 --> 00:45:17,541
"the maintenance of
stable government
863
00:45:17,583 --> 00:45:19,083
"and ordered progress.
864
00:45:19,125 --> 00:45:21,125
"And the conduct of the Treasury
865
00:45:21,166 --> 00:45:24,875
"will become matters of
practical administration.
866
00:45:24,916 --> 00:45:27,625
"The people can and
will be furnished
867
00:45:27,666 --> 00:45:31,958
"with a currency as safe
as their own government.
868
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:34,416
"Money will cease to
be their master
869
00:45:34,458 --> 00:45:37,291
"and become the
servant of humanity.
870
00:45:37,333 --> 00:45:41,666
"Democracy will rise
superior to the money power."
871
00:45:41,708 --> 00:45:43,416
- So Honest Abe rebuked
872
00:45:43,458 --> 00:45:46,208
the big centralized
banking cartels
873
00:45:46,250 --> 00:45:48,041
and decided that the U.S.
government
874
00:45:48,083 --> 00:45:51,541
would issue and control
its own money.
875
00:45:51,583 --> 00:45:55,541
President Lincoln then
asked Congress to pass a law
876
00:45:55,583 --> 00:45:57,000
authorizing the printing
877
00:45:57,041 --> 00:46:00,500
of full legal tender
Treasury notes
878
00:46:00,541 --> 00:46:02,791
to pay for the war effort.
879
00:46:02,833 --> 00:46:05,041
This law authorized the printing
880
00:46:05,083 --> 00:46:09,125
of $450 million worth
of greenbacks
881
00:46:09,166 --> 00:46:12,750
and interest-free money
to finance the war,
882
00:46:12,791 --> 00:46:14,916
which deprived the
centralized bankers
883
00:46:14,958 --> 00:46:17,041
of millions in interest.
884
00:46:17,083 --> 00:46:22,250
It acted as legal tender for
all debts, public and private.
885
00:46:22,291 --> 00:46:25,000
It paid for soldiers and sailors
886
00:46:25,041 --> 00:46:27,750
and necessary war supplies.
887
00:46:27,791 --> 00:46:30,208
Lincoln realized the
benefit to the Republic
888
00:46:30,250 --> 00:46:35,291
in a letter to Edward Taylor
in December 1862 when he wrote,
889
00:46:35,333 --> 00:46:37,250
- [Abraham] "We gave the
people of this Republic
890
00:46:37,291 --> 00:46:40,291
the greatest blessing
they have ever had,
891
00:46:40,333 --> 00:46:43,791
their own paper money
to pay their own debts."
892
00:46:43,833 --> 00:46:48,375
- In July of 1861,
Congress authorized
893
00:46:48,416 --> 00:46:51,875
the multi-millions of
dollars in demand notes.
894
00:46:51,916 --> 00:46:54,833
They bore no interest
and could be redeemed
895
00:46:54,875 --> 00:46:57,625
for specie on demand.
896
00:46:57,666 --> 00:46:59,583
They were not legal tender,
897
00:46:59,625 --> 00:47:00,875
but like Treasury notes,
898
00:47:00,916 --> 00:47:02,583
could be used to pay
customs duties.
899
00:47:03,833 --> 00:47:06,375
These demand notes were
printed in green ink
900
00:47:06,416 --> 00:47:11,083
on the reverse side, hence
their nickname, greenbacks.
901
00:47:11,125 --> 00:47:13,750
As they were fully
redeemable in gold,
902
00:47:13,791 --> 00:47:15,958
they traded at par.
903
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:18,875
Remember who else
supported the gold standard
904
00:47:18,916 --> 00:47:23,208
and government-issued
money, President Garfield.
905
00:47:23,250 --> 00:47:26,625
And guess who else supported
government-issued money,
906
00:47:26,666 --> 00:47:29,416
William McKinley and John F.
Kennedy.
907
00:47:30,625 --> 00:47:32,833
Things, of course,
didn't turn out well
908
00:47:32,875 --> 00:47:34,375
for any of these presidents
909
00:47:34,416 --> 00:47:37,041
after they initiated their new
910
00:47:37,083 --> 00:47:39,875
and bank-damaging
monetary systems.
911
00:47:39,916 --> 00:47:43,416
More so, immediately
after their deaths,
912
00:47:43,458 --> 00:47:46,125
massive money-issuing
power went directly
913
00:47:46,166 --> 00:47:49,625
back into the greedy hands
of the centralized bankers.
914
00:47:49,666 --> 00:47:52,291
Upon Abraham Lincoln's
assassination,
915
00:47:52,333 --> 00:47:55,166
all of his U.S. Treasury
issued greenbacks
916
00:47:55,208 --> 00:47:57,666
were retired from circulation,
917
00:47:57,708 --> 00:48:00,875
leaving only
national bank notes.
918
00:48:00,916 --> 00:48:04,666
But what were national
bank notes in the 1860s?
919
00:48:04,708 --> 00:48:08,416
And why and how did they
come into existence?
920
00:48:08,458 --> 00:48:12,208
Because the 1860s
Congress was so influenced
921
00:48:12,250 --> 00:48:15,041
by the centralized
banking cartel,
922
00:48:15,083 --> 00:48:17,791
they would not grant Lincoln's
greenback legislation
923
00:48:17,833 --> 00:48:19,875
without a parallel system
924
00:48:19,916 --> 00:48:24,333
where the private banks
simultaneously issued money.
925
00:48:24,375 --> 00:48:28,208
Thus, Congress enacted
the National Banking Act,
926
00:48:28,250 --> 00:48:31,291
which established a
system of national banks
927
00:48:31,333 --> 00:48:33,208
and created a national currency
928
00:48:33,250 --> 00:48:35,916
maintained by private
bank holdings
929
00:48:35,958 --> 00:48:37,125
of U.S. Treasury bonds.
930
00:48:38,625 --> 00:48:43,333
This resulted in a dual
money-issuing system being born
931
00:48:43,375 --> 00:48:46,416
which encompassed both
the national bank notes
932
00:48:46,458 --> 00:48:48,166
and Lincoln's greenbacks.
933
00:48:49,250 --> 00:48:50,791
This, of course,
greatly benefited
934
00:48:50,833 --> 00:48:53,583
the international bankers
who sought to again
935
00:48:53,625 --> 00:48:56,000
control the issuing of
America's currency.
936
00:48:57,208 --> 00:49:01,000
The newly enacted two-fold
monetary system
937
00:49:01,041 --> 00:49:03,791
initiated out of necessity
by Abraham Lincoln
938
00:49:03,833 --> 00:49:05,791
to fund the Civil War
939
00:49:05,833 --> 00:49:09,083
became the creature
from Jekyll Island
940
00:49:09,125 --> 00:49:12,750
as it not only was the
perfect setup for the bankers,
941
00:49:12,791 --> 00:49:16,083
but it also very likely
led to Lincoln's death.
942
00:49:16,125 --> 00:49:20,791
The leading demon of this
mid-1800s banking cartel,
943
00:49:20,833 --> 00:49:24,541
Rothschilds and Sons,
seized the moment,
944
00:49:24,583 --> 00:49:27,208
even publicly
stating their plans
945
00:49:27,250 --> 00:49:31,791
well in advance of the
1863 Banking Act.
946
00:49:31,833 --> 00:49:34,791
At the marriage of Nathan
Rothschild's eldest daughter
947
00:49:34,833 --> 00:49:38,041
in 1857, he said,
948
00:49:38,083 --> 00:49:40,791
- [Nathan] "I shall divide
the United States in half.
949
00:49:40,833 --> 00:49:44,916
"Half for you, Lionel,
and half for you, James."
950
00:49:44,958 --> 00:49:47,750
- Curiously enough, the
Civil War was created
951
00:49:47,791 --> 00:49:49,875
in just this fashion,
952
00:49:49,916 --> 00:49:52,041
half with one Rothschild brother
953
00:49:52,083 --> 00:49:54,583
financially
supporting the North,
954
00:49:54,625 --> 00:49:56,833
and half with the other
Rothschild brother
955
00:49:56,875 --> 00:49:58,791
supporting the South.
956
00:49:58,833 --> 00:50:02,666
And the winner forced the
loser to pay his debts.
957
00:50:02,708 --> 00:50:04,541
So no matter who won the war,
958
00:50:04,583 --> 00:50:06,875
the Rothschilds and their
banking cartel
959
00:50:06,916 --> 00:50:08,958
won over the U.S.
monetary system.
960
00:50:10,291 --> 00:50:13,166
Since Lincoln's greenbacks
were immediately retired
961
00:50:13,208 --> 00:50:14,583
after his death,
962
00:50:14,625 --> 00:50:17,708
the only currency left were
the national bank notes
963
00:50:17,750 --> 00:50:20,416
issued by these private bankers.
964
00:50:20,458 --> 00:50:23,083
From this foothold grew
the forerunner
965
00:50:23,125 --> 00:50:25,583
of the Federal Reserve System,
966
00:50:25,625 --> 00:50:29,166
the modern centralized
banking cartel
967
00:50:29,208 --> 00:50:33,083
that controls the issuing
of all American currency.
968
00:50:33,125 --> 00:50:36,583
[melancholy piano music]
969
00:50:41,333 --> 00:50:44,000
After learning the much
less known circumstances
970
00:50:44,041 --> 00:50:46,916
surrounding James
Garfield's killing,
971
00:50:46,958 --> 00:50:49,166
it makes the very
likely true reason
972
00:50:49,208 --> 00:50:52,541
for Lincoln's murder
much more understandable.
973
00:50:52,583 --> 00:50:55,333
On the assassin's side,
Charles Guiteau
974
00:50:55,375 --> 00:50:58,041
certainly had his own
economic motivations
975
00:50:58,083 --> 00:51:00,416
to murder President Garfield,
976
00:51:00,458 --> 00:51:03,291
and he also presents as
the perfect patsy
977
00:51:03,333 --> 00:51:06,083
used to carry out the
deadly deed.
978
00:51:06,125 --> 00:51:08,541
Well, how about John
Wilkes Booth?
979
00:51:09,375 --> 00:51:10,666
The government's explanation
980
00:51:10,708 --> 00:51:14,041
for the Lincoln
assassination is well known.
981
00:51:14,083 --> 00:51:16,875
A famous actor, John
Wilkes Booth,
982
00:51:16,916 --> 00:51:21,000
and a few other disgruntled
Southerners of no notoriety
983
00:51:21,041 --> 00:51:24,625
got together and plotted
to kill the president.
984
00:51:24,666 --> 00:51:26,291
This group have been portrayed
985
00:51:26,333 --> 00:51:29,458
as racist Confederate patriots
986
00:51:29,500 --> 00:51:31,666
whose motivation to kill Lincoln
987
00:51:31,708 --> 00:51:35,666
was one of pure revenge
for the president's refusal
988
00:51:35,708 --> 00:51:38,333
to allow the Southern succession
989
00:51:38,375 --> 00:51:40,625
and his freedom of the slaves.
990
00:51:40,666 --> 00:51:44,500
This was indeed the one
presidential assassination
991
00:51:44,541 --> 00:51:46,166
where even the government admits
992
00:51:46,208 --> 00:51:48,958
that it wasn't just a
lone gunman.
993
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,833
However, the conspiracy,
our officials say,
994
00:51:51,875 --> 00:51:53,916
only goes so far.
995
00:51:53,958 --> 00:51:56,625
It was more or less a
case of just personal,
996
00:51:56,666 --> 00:52:00,250
political animosity
with no powerful brokers
997
00:52:00,291 --> 00:52:01,625
connected to the murder.
998
00:52:02,875 --> 00:52:04,666
But was it actually
more than that?
999
00:52:05,916 --> 00:52:08,166
Many theories have abounded.
1000
00:52:08,208 --> 00:52:12,083
A logical one is that
Booth and his cohorts
1001
00:52:12,125 --> 00:52:16,500
were part of a larger,
grandiose Confederate plot
1002
00:52:16,541 --> 00:52:19,041
which involved top
Confederate leaders.
1003
00:52:20,125 --> 00:52:22,416
Certainly, there was
considerable talk
1004
00:52:22,458 --> 00:52:25,208
and some planning by
Confederate chieftains
1005
00:52:25,250 --> 00:52:28,666
to eliminate Lincoln
many times during
1006
00:52:28,708 --> 00:52:31,083
and after the Civil War.
1007
00:52:31,125 --> 00:52:33,208
There also was
evidence that Booth
1008
00:52:33,250 --> 00:52:35,458
may have been in dialogue
with some of them.
1009
00:52:35,500 --> 00:52:38,875
Specially coded letters were
found in Booth's belongings
1010
00:52:38,916 --> 00:52:40,666
at the National Hotel
1011
00:52:40,708 --> 00:52:43,583
which linked him to
the Confederacy.
1012
00:52:43,625 --> 00:52:47,750
One of booth's co-conspirators,
George Atzerodt,
1013
00:52:47,791 --> 00:52:51,250
stated before his trial
that Booth had knowledge
1014
00:52:51,291 --> 00:52:54,000
of an unsuccessful
Confederate plan
1015
00:52:54,041 --> 00:52:56,500
to blow up the White House.
1016
00:52:56,541 --> 00:53:00,083
And Booth's original
design to kidnap Lincoln
1017
00:53:00,125 --> 00:53:02,208
as opposed to murdering him
1018
00:53:02,250 --> 00:53:05,041
has been tied to Confederate
leadership involvement.
1019
00:53:06,250 --> 00:53:09,416
However, there is no
demonstrable evidence
1020
00:53:09,458 --> 00:53:12,625
to firmly bound men like
Jefferson Davis
1021
00:53:12,666 --> 00:53:15,750
or Stonewall Jackson into
Booth's plans.
1022
00:53:16,750 --> 00:53:19,000
Surely, the Confederate bosses
1023
00:53:19,041 --> 00:53:20,541
had a motive to kill Lincoln,
1024
00:53:21,708 --> 00:53:24,083
but there were motives
with strong proofs
1025
00:53:24,125 --> 00:53:26,166
that supersede even theirs.
1026
00:53:26,208 --> 00:53:27,791
You have often heard theories
1027
00:53:27,833 --> 00:53:32,041
that Lyndon B. Johnson was
behind the Kennedy
assassination,
1028
00:53:32,083 --> 00:53:35,416
that JFK's vice president
was the mastermind.
1029
00:53:36,416 --> 00:53:38,291
Well, maybe people
have conjectured
1030
00:53:38,333 --> 00:53:41,333
that the other Johnson VP
was the brains
1031
00:53:41,375 --> 00:53:43,708
behind Abraham Lincoln's
planned death.
1032
00:53:44,541 --> 00:53:46,750
You see, Andrew Johnson,
1033
00:53:46,791 --> 00:53:51,125
Lincoln's second in command,
knew John Wilkes Booth,
1034
00:53:52,208 --> 00:53:54,166
and they weren't just
acquaintances
1035
00:53:54,208 --> 00:53:55,208
according to many historians.
1036
00:53:56,708 --> 00:54:00,333
They say that when Johnson
was the governor of Tennessee,
1037
00:54:00,375 --> 00:54:03,083
he and Booth kept a pair
of sisters as mistresses.
1038
00:54:04,333 --> 00:54:07,541
During a lot of drinking
and frolicking together,
1039
00:54:07,583 --> 00:54:10,041
could Johnson and Booth
have hatched the plot
1040
00:54:10,083 --> 00:54:11,625
to kill Mr. Lincoln?
1041
00:54:12,791 --> 00:54:14,916
The president's wife thought so.
1042
00:54:14,958 --> 00:54:19,000
In an 1866 letter to
her friend, Sally Orne,
1043
00:54:19,041 --> 00:54:20,708
Mary Todd Lincoln wrote,
1044
00:54:21,833 --> 00:54:24,000
- [Mary] "That miserable
inebriate Johnson
1045
00:54:24,041 --> 00:54:27,000
"had cognizance of my
husband's death.
1046
00:54:27,041 --> 00:54:29,708
"Why was that card of
Booth's found in his box?
1047
00:54:29,750 --> 00:54:31,916
"Some acquaintance
certainly existed.
1048
00:54:33,041 --> 00:54:34,875
"I have been deeply impressed
1049
00:54:34,916 --> 00:54:36,333
"with the harrowing thought
1050
00:54:36,375 --> 00:54:39,541
"that he had an understanding
with the conspirators,
1051
00:54:39,583 --> 00:54:41,541
"and they knew their man.
1052
00:54:41,583 --> 00:54:43,458
"As sure and you and I live,
1053
00:54:43,500 --> 00:54:46,166
"Johnson had some hand
in all this."
1054
00:54:47,666 --> 00:54:49,291
- Were Mrs. Lincoln's thoughts
1055
00:54:49,333 --> 00:54:52,541
those of a distraught,
paranoid wife,
1056
00:54:52,583 --> 00:54:55,458
or were they the product
of some credible evidence?
1057
00:54:55,500 --> 00:54:57,625
It's a fact that
just hours prior
1058
00:54:57,666 --> 00:54:59,875
to firing a bullet into
Lincoln's head
1059
00:54:59,916 --> 00:55:01,958
at the Ford's Theater,
1060
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:03,750
John Wilkes Booth made a stop
1061
00:55:03,791 --> 00:55:06,166
at the Washington Hotel.
1062
00:55:06,208 --> 00:55:08,250
Why is that significant?
1063
00:55:08,291 --> 00:55:10,750
Because Vice President
Andrew Johnson
1064
00:55:10,791 --> 00:55:13,291
lived at the Washington Hotel.
1065
00:55:13,333 --> 00:55:17,416
More so, Booth left a
note with the hotel clerk
1066
00:55:17,458 --> 00:55:19,791
for Johnson and his
private secretary,
1067
00:55:19,833 --> 00:55:21,958
William A. Browning.
1068
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:24,250
The note simply said,
1069
00:55:24,291 --> 00:55:26,125
- [John] "Don't wish
to disturb you,
1070
00:55:26,166 --> 00:55:29,666
"are you at home, J.
Wilkes Booth."
1071
00:55:29,708 --> 00:55:31,541
- William Browning
later testified
1072
00:55:31,583 --> 00:55:33,583
before a military court,
1073
00:55:33,625 --> 00:55:36,458
stating that he found a
note in his box
1074
00:55:36,500 --> 00:55:38,708
that same afternoon.
1075
00:55:38,750 --> 00:55:41,041
Was John Wilkes Booth popping by
1076
00:55:41,083 --> 00:55:44,250
just to say "Hello" to
Vice President Johnson
1077
00:55:44,291 --> 00:55:47,500
on the day of Abraham
Lincoln's assassination,
1078
00:55:48,625 --> 00:55:51,333
or was he there to kill
Johnson first?
1079
00:55:52,375 --> 00:55:54,041
That would seem rather unlikely,
1080
00:55:54,083 --> 00:55:56,625
given that his visit to
Johnson's hotel
1081
00:55:56,666 --> 00:56:00,166
was about seven hours
before he shot Lincoln.
1082
00:56:00,208 --> 00:56:03,458
If he attempted to kill
Johnson that far in advance,
1083
00:56:03,500 --> 00:56:05,000
he definitely would not
have been able
1084
00:56:05,041 --> 00:56:08,041
to find an unprotected
President Lincoln
1085
00:56:08,083 --> 00:56:10,916
watching a play at
Ford's Theater.
1086
00:56:10,958 --> 00:56:13,583
If Lincoln's VP had been shot,
1087
00:56:13,625 --> 00:56:15,166
Lincoln would have been
scuttled away
1088
00:56:15,208 --> 00:56:17,291
to military protected safety.
1089
00:56:18,458 --> 00:56:21,750
So perhaps, as Mary Todd
Lincoln thought,
1090
00:56:21,791 --> 00:56:23,833
Booth was visiting
Johnson with regard
1091
00:56:23,875 --> 00:56:26,416
to their upcoming plot
to kill the president
1092
00:56:26,458 --> 00:56:28,291
later that day.
1093
00:56:28,333 --> 00:56:31,000
The First Lady wasn't the
only person in Washington
1094
00:56:31,041 --> 00:56:32,625
to think this.
1095
00:56:32,666 --> 00:56:35,958
Many members of Congress
also conjectured
1096
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:37,666
that Johnson was the ringleader
1097
00:56:37,708 --> 00:56:40,625
of Lincoln's assassination
and conspiracy.
1098
00:56:40,666 --> 00:56:42,541
And they pointed to
Booth's hotel visit
1099
00:56:42,583 --> 00:56:43,958
as proof of it.
1100
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:46,208
If Vice President
Johnson was involved,
1101
00:56:46,250 --> 00:56:48,083
the question is, why?
1102
00:56:49,166 --> 00:56:51,000
Was it just so that
he could assume
1103
00:56:51,041 --> 00:56:54,500
to the highest political
position in the land?
1104
00:56:54,541 --> 00:56:56,583
Was it because he was
a Southerner
1105
00:56:56,625 --> 00:56:58,833
and was opposed to the
freeing of slaves?
1106
00:57:00,083 --> 00:57:03,291
Or did his Southern
roots and relationships
1107
00:57:03,333 --> 00:57:05,166
provide more of an
economic reason
1108
00:57:05,208 --> 00:57:06,958
to see Lincoln dethroned?
1109
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:11,166
Remember this, soon after
Abraham Lincoln's assassination,
1110
00:57:12,291 --> 00:57:14,958
all of his U.S. Treasury
issued greenbacks
1111
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:17,541
were retired from circulation,
1112
00:57:17,583 --> 00:57:19,541
leaving only
national bank notes.
1113
00:57:20,916 --> 00:57:24,625
This rendered a very
critical and powerful result,
1114
00:57:24,666 --> 00:57:27,583
that only private banks
now controlled
1115
00:57:27,625 --> 00:57:29,333
the issuing of America's money,
1116
00:57:30,500 --> 00:57:33,708
and under whose command
did this occur?
1117
00:57:33,750 --> 00:57:35,625
One Andrew Johnson.
1118
00:57:36,708 --> 00:57:39,291
So did Andrew Johnson,
at the behest
1119
00:57:39,333 --> 00:57:43,875
of the very powerful
private centralized bankers,
1120
00:57:43,916 --> 00:57:47,458
orchestrate the assassination
of Abraham Lincoln?
1121
00:57:47,500 --> 00:57:50,250
And did Johnson recruit
his pleasure buddy,
1122
00:57:50,291 --> 00:57:54,083
John Wilkes Booth, to be
the trigger-man patsy?
1123
00:57:55,166 --> 00:57:57,708
A man of staunch Southern ideas
1124
00:57:57,750 --> 00:58:01,041
who was angry about
Lincoln's Civil War victory,
1125
00:58:01,083 --> 00:58:03,583
Booth was a prime choice
to be a figurehead
1126
00:58:03,625 --> 00:58:04,375
in a conspiracy.
1127
00:58:05,791 --> 00:58:09,458
He was an individual of
sizeable influence himself,
1128
00:58:09,500 --> 00:58:13,416
serving as an 1860s
Hollywood type.
1129
00:58:13,458 --> 00:58:17,083
Booth's charismatic ability
to recruit other players
1130
00:58:17,125 --> 00:58:19,583
in the murder plot would be key,
1131
00:58:19,625 --> 00:58:22,458
and these other players
would identify him
1132
00:58:22,500 --> 00:58:24,000
as the ringleader.
1133
00:58:24,041 --> 00:58:26,625
A smart cartel-like plot
1134
00:58:26,666 --> 00:58:30,833
would have the bank moguls
speaking directly to Johnson
1135
00:58:30,875 --> 00:58:34,291
with Johnson speaking
only to Booth
1136
00:58:34,333 --> 00:58:36,583
and Booth speaking to the others
1137
00:58:36,625 --> 00:58:38,458
who helped carry out the deed.
1138
00:58:39,291 --> 00:58:41,416
Under these circumstances,
1139
00:58:41,458 --> 00:58:43,708
the Vice President would
be far removed
1140
00:58:43,750 --> 00:58:47,083
from the street criminals
executing the plot,
1141
00:58:47,125 --> 00:58:49,708
and the bankers would be
even further away
1142
00:58:49,750 --> 00:58:52,083
from this sinister act.
1143
00:58:52,125 --> 00:58:55,708
Here, the perfect marriage
would have been in place.
1144
00:58:55,750 --> 00:58:58,583
Booth and his street
gang as a bunch
1145
00:58:58,625 --> 00:59:01,958
of Southern ideologues,
in their minds,
1146
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:06,000
gain hero status by
righteously killing a man
1147
00:59:06,041 --> 00:59:08,750
who stole away the
livelihood and lifestyles
1148
00:59:08,791 --> 00:59:10,708
of half of America.
1149
00:59:10,750 --> 00:59:14,000
Andrew Johnson ascends to
the presidency,
1150
00:59:14,041 --> 00:59:17,166
and the international
private bankers, well,
1151
00:59:17,208 --> 00:59:20,291
by gaining full control
of the monetary system,
1152
00:59:20,333 --> 00:59:23,791
they earned billions
of dollars forever on.
1153
00:59:23,833 --> 00:59:25,958
Just kill Abraham Lincoln,
1154
00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:28,750
which makes Andrew
Johnson president,
1155
00:59:28,791 --> 00:59:31,708
and have Johnson retire
the greenbacks,
1156
00:59:31,750 --> 00:59:35,625
which means only national
bank notes are issued.
1157
00:59:35,666 --> 00:59:38,916
Here, the private banks
control the issuance
1158
00:59:38,958 --> 00:59:41,500
of all U.S. currency.
1159
00:59:41,541 --> 00:59:43,458
It doesn't get any more
powerful than that.
1160
00:59:44,625 --> 00:59:47,541
Wouldn't it be quite
rational to conclude
1161
00:59:47,583 --> 00:59:50,875
that this was why Abraham
Lincoln was assassinated?
1162
00:59:51,791 --> 00:59:54,875
As Mayor Amschel
Rothschild said,
1163
00:59:54,916 --> 00:59:56,000
- [Amschel] "Give me the power
1164
00:59:56,041 --> 00:59:57,750
"to create a nation's money,
1165
00:59:57,791 --> 01:00:01,291
"and I care not who
makes its laws."
1166
01:00:01,333 --> 01:00:03,375
- Since Lincoln wasn't
giving the bankers
1167
01:00:03,416 --> 01:00:06,541
the full power to create
this nation's money,
1168
01:00:06,583 --> 01:00:09,916
Andrew Johnson was a much
better choice.
1169
01:00:09,958 --> 01:00:12,875
So maybe Rothschild
cared just a bit
1170
01:00:12,916 --> 01:00:15,500
who was making America's laws.
1171
01:00:15,541 --> 01:00:17,375
It appears quite
likely that both
1172
01:00:17,416 --> 01:00:21,250
Abraham Lincoln and his
friend James Garfield
1173
01:00:21,291 --> 01:00:23,875
were murdered for the
same motive,
1174
01:00:23,916 --> 01:00:28,666
and with a similar modus
operandi in using patsies.
1175
01:00:28,708 --> 01:00:31,250
No doubt this
tradition carried on
1176
01:00:31,291 --> 01:00:33,833
with the assassinations
of William McKinley
1177
01:00:33,875 --> 01:00:36,000
and John F. Kennedy.
1178
01:00:36,041 --> 01:00:38,000
The conventional wisdom is
1179
01:00:38,041 --> 01:00:40,166
that President
McKinley's assassination
1180
01:00:40,208 --> 01:00:43,916
was the work of a lone
gunman, Leon Czolgosz.
1181
01:00:44,708 --> 01:00:46,125
An avowed socialist
1182
01:00:46,166 --> 01:00:49,166
like Garfield's gunman
Charles Guiteau
1183
01:00:49,208 --> 01:00:52,041
and Kennedy's shooter,
Lee Harvey Oswald,
1184
01:00:52,083 --> 01:00:56,250
Leon Czolgosz was livid
by what he called
1185
01:00:56,291 --> 01:00:58,166
"a corrupt U.S. government."
1186
01:00:59,291 --> 01:01:01,666
Well, this indeed was
the story put out
1187
01:01:01,708 --> 01:01:04,875
by the United States
government in 1901,
1188
01:01:04,916 --> 01:01:07,416
the year McKinley was killed.
1189
01:01:07,458 --> 01:01:09,291
But perhaps this
president's death
1190
01:01:09,333 --> 01:01:13,916
was the result of the more
logical and clear reason,
1191
01:01:13,958 --> 01:01:16,625
that he had instituted
what Lincoln and Garfield
1192
01:01:16,666 --> 01:01:19,500
had done years before him
1193
01:01:19,541 --> 01:01:22,333
in taking away
money-issuing control
1194
01:01:22,375 --> 01:01:24,541
from private,
centralized bankers.
1195
01:01:25,958 --> 01:01:29,791
William McKinley had
successfully led a U.S. victory
1196
01:01:29,833 --> 01:01:32,250
in the Spanish-American War,
1197
01:01:32,291 --> 01:01:36,500
which led to an easy win for
a second term as president,
1198
01:01:36,541 --> 01:01:39,416
but on September 6, 1901,
1199
01:01:39,458 --> 01:01:42,375
less than a year after
his re-election,
1200
01:01:42,416 --> 01:01:44,333
McKinley was shot in the abdomen
1201
01:01:44,375 --> 01:01:47,541
at the Temple of Music
in Buffalo, New York.
1202
01:01:47,583 --> 01:01:50,666
The shooter, Leon Czolgosz,
1203
01:01:50,708 --> 01:01:54,500
waited on a long line to
shake the president's hand.
1204
01:01:54,541 --> 01:01:57,875
When he finally reached
his Commander-in-Chief,
1205
01:01:57,916 --> 01:02:02,416
Czolgosz's right hand was
draped in a white handkerchief.
1206
01:02:02,458 --> 01:02:05,458
As McKinley reached out
to greet the man,
1207
01:02:05,500 --> 01:02:08,583
Czolgosz fired two bullets.
1208
01:02:08,625 --> 01:02:12,666
One harmlessly bounced
off McKinley's chest bone,
1209
01:02:12,708 --> 01:02:15,625
but the other lodged in his gut.
1210
01:02:15,666 --> 01:02:19,416
The president fell to the ground
thinking about two people,
1211
01:02:19,458 --> 01:02:23,375
his wife and the man
who had just shot him.
1212
01:02:23,416 --> 01:02:25,791
McKinley notably said,
1213
01:02:25,833 --> 01:02:27,708
- [William] "Be careful
how you tell her.
1214
01:02:27,750 --> 01:02:28,666
"Oh, be careful."
1215
01:02:29,791 --> 01:02:32,500
- And as for his assassin,
he uttered,
1216
01:02:32,541 --> 01:02:34,291
- [Leon] "Be easy with him,
boys."
1217
01:02:35,333 --> 01:02:37,375
- Like James A. Garfield,
1218
01:02:37,416 --> 01:02:39,541
William McKinley did
not die quickly
1219
01:02:39,583 --> 01:02:41,791
from his bullet wounds.
1220
01:02:41,833 --> 01:02:46,250
Also like Garfield, failures
by the treating physicians
1221
01:02:46,291 --> 01:02:48,916
contributed to his
ultimate demise.
1222
01:02:48,958 --> 01:02:50,500
You've all heard of
the magic bullet
1223
01:02:50,541 --> 01:02:52,875
in the Kennedy assassination.
1224
01:02:52,916 --> 01:02:55,500
Well, the McKinley
assassination led to the coining
1225
01:02:55,541 --> 01:02:57,708
of the phrase "The
Mystery Bullet."
1226
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:01,791
This is because doctors
spent over 90 minutes
1227
01:03:01,833 --> 01:03:05,125
looking for the bullet during
the president's autopsy,
1228
01:03:05,166 --> 01:03:05,833
but it was never found.
1229
01:03:07,291 --> 01:03:11,375
Doctors, media, and political
leaders were so perplexed
1230
01:03:11,416 --> 01:03:14,458
by McKinley's quick and
unexpected decline
1231
01:03:14,500 --> 01:03:17,791
that many opined that the
bullet must have been poisoned.
1232
01:03:18,875 --> 01:03:21,166
More so, the question was asked,
1233
01:03:21,208 --> 01:03:23,875
"Where the hell was the
mystery bullet?"
1234
01:03:23,916 --> 01:03:26,625
And perhaps it might be
a smarter question to ask
1235
01:03:26,666 --> 01:03:29,666
if McKinley was poisoned
after he was shot,
1236
01:03:30,708 --> 01:03:32,833
not from a poison bullet,
1237
01:03:32,875 --> 01:03:34,916
but by someone simply
poisoning him.
1238
01:03:36,125 --> 01:03:38,958
Were the doctors part
of a conspiracy,
1239
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:41,291
brought in to finish
off an uncompleted job?
1240
01:03:42,458 --> 01:03:45,000
You recall what happened
to James Garfield.
1241
01:03:45,041 --> 01:03:48,791
Mainstream history outright
blames botched medical care
1242
01:03:48,833 --> 01:03:50,375
for the proximate cause
of his death.
1243
01:03:51,583 --> 01:03:54,166
If the killers were
successful once before
1244
01:03:54,208 --> 01:03:58,416
in eliminating a president
after a non-lethal shooting,
1245
01:03:58,458 --> 01:04:01,916
why not try the same
coffin-ensuring method again?
1246
01:04:01,958 --> 01:04:03,083
Bring in the dirty doctors.
1247
01:04:04,333 --> 01:04:06,458
Those who infect their
presidential patients
1248
01:04:06,500 --> 01:04:09,166
with unsanitary probing fingers,
1249
01:04:09,208 --> 01:04:13,125
non-sterile instruments,
and unclean conditions,
1250
01:04:13,166 --> 01:04:16,875
follow this by failing to
remove a mystery bullet.
1251
01:04:16,916 --> 01:04:19,041
Or maybe quite the opposite,
1252
01:04:19,083 --> 01:04:20,916
locating the bullet,
taking it out,
1253
01:04:20,958 --> 01:04:23,000
and acting like it's still there
1254
01:04:23,041 --> 01:04:24,416
to justify a certain type
1255
01:04:24,458 --> 01:04:27,291
of supposedly
cautious treatment,
1256
01:04:27,333 --> 01:04:30,333
a treatment that allows
gangrene to develop and kill.
1257
01:04:31,500 --> 01:04:32,875
Whatever the exact details,
1258
01:04:32,916 --> 01:04:35,666
we know that both
President Garfield
1259
01:04:35,708 --> 01:04:39,000
and President McKinley
died quite some time
1260
01:04:39,041 --> 01:04:39,833
after their shooting.
1261
01:04:41,041 --> 01:04:43,416
We also know that they
died from infections
1262
01:04:43,458 --> 01:04:44,291
and blood poisoning.
1263
01:04:45,458 --> 01:04:48,500
It's hard to believe that
two presidents,
1264
01:04:48,541 --> 01:04:52,041
people surely in line for
the greatest of medical care,
1265
01:04:52,083 --> 01:04:53,375
apparently got the worst.
1266
01:04:54,458 --> 01:04:56,875
Was this just coincidental,
bad luck,
1267
01:04:58,166 --> 01:05:00,208
or were the doctors hired hands,
1268
01:05:00,250 --> 01:05:03,875
brought in to suture an
unfinished assassination?
1269
01:05:03,916 --> 01:05:05,458
Or perhaps the physicians
1270
01:05:05,500 --> 01:05:07,666
provided fine medical treatment,
1271
01:05:07,708 --> 01:05:10,166
and someone else with
access to the president
1272
01:05:10,208 --> 01:05:10,750
poisoned their blood.
1273
01:05:12,333 --> 01:05:16,458
No matter, these two men could
have survived their shootings
1274
01:05:16,500 --> 01:05:19,125
but mysteriously died with
poisoned blood.
1275
01:05:19,166 --> 01:05:22,458
Just like we revealed in
the murder of James Garfield
1276
01:05:22,500 --> 01:05:25,750
and the famous assassinations
of Lincoln and Kennedy,
1277
01:05:25,791 --> 01:05:29,291
the lone gunman theory in
William McKinley's case
1278
01:05:29,333 --> 01:05:30,708
is wholly unbelievable.
1279
01:05:31,791 --> 01:05:34,458
Everyone knows that
John Wilkes Booth
1280
01:05:34,500 --> 01:05:36,875
and Lee Harvey Oswald had
personal motives
1281
01:05:36,916 --> 01:05:39,541
to kill Honest Abe and JFK.
1282
01:05:39,583 --> 01:05:43,708
We clearly identified Charles
Guiteau's intimate reason
1283
01:05:43,750 --> 01:05:45,500
to eliminate Garfield.
1284
01:05:45,541 --> 01:05:49,000
Did Leon Czolgosz also
have a private rationale
1285
01:05:49,041 --> 01:05:51,833
for his carnage upon
William McKinley?
1286
01:05:51,875 --> 01:05:53,500
Yes, he did.
1287
01:05:53,541 --> 01:05:56,916
Leon Czolgosz was punched,
kicked, and stomped
1288
01:05:56,958 --> 01:06:00,541
by police and bystanders
after he shot McKinley.
1289
01:06:00,583 --> 01:06:04,083
Thereafter, he provided a full
confession to authorities.
1290
01:06:04,125 --> 01:06:07,333
In fact, he presented
them with a written letter
1291
01:06:07,375 --> 01:06:10,666
that outlined his
premeditated actions.
1292
01:06:10,708 --> 01:06:14,708
Czolgosz referred to
himself as Fred Neiman
1293
01:06:14,750 --> 01:06:17,916
which in German means
Fred Nobody.
1294
01:06:17,958 --> 01:06:20,916
You see, Czolgosz was
a total zero,
1295
01:06:20,958 --> 01:06:25,041
poor, unemployed, unskilled,
and alone.
1296
01:06:25,083 --> 01:06:28,833
He was searching for a
voice, the government says.
1297
01:06:28,875 --> 01:06:31,541
He wanted to become someone
1298
01:06:31,583 --> 01:06:34,541
and be known as smart and brave.
1299
01:06:34,583 --> 01:06:37,291
In his written confession,
he proudly stated,
1300
01:06:37,333 --> 01:06:39,375
- [Leon] "I made my plans
three or four days ago
1301
01:06:39,416 --> 01:06:40,916
"to shoot the president.
1302
01:06:40,958 --> 01:06:43,875
"When I shot him, I
intended to kill him.
1303
01:06:43,916 --> 01:06:46,000
"And the reason for my
intention in killing
1304
01:06:46,041 --> 01:06:50,125
"was because I did not
believe in presidents over us.
1305
01:06:50,166 --> 01:06:53,458
"I was willing to sacrifice
myself and the president
1306
01:06:53,500 --> 01:06:55,291
"for the benefit of the country.
1307
01:06:55,333 --> 01:06:57,791
"I felt I had more courage
than the average man
1308
01:06:57,833 --> 01:06:59,041
"in killing the president
1309
01:06:59,083 --> 01:07:01,250
"and was willing to put
my own life at stake
1310
01:07:01,291 --> 01:07:02,625
"in order to do it."
1311
01:07:02,666 --> 01:07:04,375
- He also wrote about
meetings he attended
1312
01:07:04,416 --> 01:07:05,875
with the anarchists,
1313
01:07:05,916 --> 01:07:09,125
a burgeoning political group
that impelled his shooting.
1314
01:07:09,916 --> 01:07:11,458
Czolgosz decried,
1315
01:07:11,500 --> 01:07:14,125
- [Leon] "I heard people talk
about the duty they were under
1316
01:07:14,166 --> 01:07:15,458
"to educate the people
1317
01:07:15,500 --> 01:07:17,750
"against the present form
of government,
1318
01:07:17,791 --> 01:07:19,625
"and they should do
all they could
1319
01:07:19,666 --> 01:07:21,666
"to change the form
of government."
1320
01:07:21,708 --> 01:07:24,416
- But who were the anarchists?
1321
01:07:24,458 --> 01:07:27,875
Many historians consider that
the first global terrorists
1322
01:07:27,916 --> 01:07:29,250
were the anarchists.
1323
01:07:30,333 --> 01:07:32,291
These were a
loosely-knit group of men
1324
01:07:32,333 --> 01:07:34,250
in both America and Europe
1325
01:07:34,291 --> 01:07:37,375
who believed in the
isolation of the individual.
1326
01:07:37,416 --> 01:07:39,458
They were advocates of
free thought,
1327
01:07:39,500 --> 01:07:43,208
which included freedom
from religion and politics.
1328
01:07:43,250 --> 01:07:46,916
Anarchism in the 1890s
was all about the pursuit
1329
01:07:46,958 --> 01:07:50,708
of man's right to his own
tools, mind, and body.
1330
01:07:51,875 --> 01:07:54,541
He shall keep the
products of his own labor
1331
01:07:54,583 --> 01:07:56,666
without government interference.
1332
01:07:56,708 --> 01:07:59,833
This anti-political
philosophy, from time to time,
1333
01:07:59,875 --> 01:08:01,958
both in America and abroad,
1334
01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:04,875
manifested itself into a
dynamite bombing
1335
01:08:04,916 --> 01:08:06,708
or a shooting spree.
1336
01:08:06,750 --> 01:08:09,166
In the United States,
authorities believe
1337
01:08:09,208 --> 01:08:11,041
and newspapers reported
1338
01:08:11,083 --> 01:08:14,125
that a large swath of the
anarchists were foreigners
1339
01:08:14,166 --> 01:08:15,625
who had immigrated to America.
1340
01:08:16,916 --> 01:08:20,000
Whether this is true or
not is another story.
1341
01:08:20,041 --> 01:08:22,291
Also just a story
1342
01:08:22,333 --> 01:08:26,250
were most of the terrorist
acts attributed to anarchists.
1343
01:08:26,291 --> 01:08:28,125
There were numerous
media reports
1344
01:08:28,166 --> 01:08:32,083
of explosions, bomb blastings,
and even viral plagues
1345
01:08:32,125 --> 01:08:34,208
that never existed.
1346
01:08:34,250 --> 01:08:37,375
Alternatively, many who
committed terrorist acts
1347
01:08:37,416 --> 01:08:41,375
called themselves anarchist,
but really weren't.
1348
01:08:41,416 --> 01:08:43,333
And many other
attacks were deemed
1349
01:08:43,375 --> 01:08:45,666
carried out by the anarchists,
1350
01:08:45,708 --> 01:08:48,625
but the perpetrators
really had nothing to do
1351
01:08:48,666 --> 01:08:50,208
with this freethinking group.
1352
01:08:51,333 --> 01:08:53,333
The phony accounts were the norm
1353
01:08:53,375 --> 01:08:55,250
rather than the exception.
1354
01:08:55,291 --> 01:08:57,208
The government and
its media allies
1355
01:08:57,250 --> 01:09:00,291
used the alleged
anarchist terrorism
1356
01:09:00,333 --> 01:09:04,458
as a fear-baiting tool
to control its populace
1357
01:09:04,500 --> 01:09:06,000
and to sell newspapers.
1358
01:09:07,208 --> 01:09:10,291
Thus fake news had its
roots with anarchism
1359
01:09:10,333 --> 01:09:13,291
in addition to modern
day terrorism.
1360
01:09:13,333 --> 01:09:17,541
And was Leon Czolgosz
actually an anarchist?
1361
01:09:17,583 --> 01:09:20,083
In the 1890s, there
was no shortage
1362
01:09:20,125 --> 01:09:22,791
of young men who were
screaming for attention
1363
01:09:22,833 --> 01:09:25,625
and longing to do daring things.
1364
01:09:25,666 --> 01:09:28,750
Leon Czolgosz was one of them,
1365
01:09:28,791 --> 01:09:33,250
and the anarchists with all
of their media-driven fanfare,
1366
01:09:33,291 --> 01:09:36,000
was a logical outlet to turn Mr.
Nobody
1367
01:09:36,041 --> 01:09:37,541
into Mr. Somebody.
1368
01:09:38,416 --> 01:09:40,708
In his quest for recognition,
1369
01:09:40,750 --> 01:09:44,125
Czolgosz did indeed attend
some anarchist meetings
1370
01:09:44,166 --> 01:09:46,083
in Chicago during the year prior
1371
01:09:46,125 --> 01:09:48,666
to the McKinley assassination.
1372
01:09:48,708 --> 01:09:50,625
But after the
president's shooting,
1373
01:09:50,666 --> 01:09:52,708
the anarchists did
everything they could
1374
01:09:52,750 --> 01:09:55,625
to distance themselves
from Czolgosz.
1375
01:09:55,666 --> 01:09:57,750
Could some group, more powerful
1376
01:09:57,791 --> 01:10:00,250
than the
sensationalized anarchists,
1377
01:10:00,291 --> 01:10:03,666
have learned of Czolgosz
through this publicity
1378
01:10:03,708 --> 01:10:07,291
and sought out this
disaffected, rejected young man
1379
01:10:08,166 --> 01:10:10,083
and seized upon his yearning
1380
01:10:10,125 --> 01:10:13,666
to transform from a
zero to a hero?
1381
01:10:13,708 --> 01:10:16,333
Was William McKinley's
assassination
1382
01:10:16,375 --> 01:10:19,625
really the work of a
loser lone gunman
1383
01:10:19,666 --> 01:10:22,291
with anarchist influences?
1384
01:10:22,333 --> 01:10:25,583
This government-skewed theory
is troubled at its core
1385
01:10:25,625 --> 01:10:27,791
with the revelation
of Czolgosz's
1386
01:10:27,833 --> 01:10:30,666
true tenuous anarchist ties
1387
01:10:30,708 --> 01:10:34,916
and the group's very public
disassociation with him,
1388
01:10:34,958 --> 01:10:38,166
not to mention the fake
news pandemic
1389
01:10:38,208 --> 01:10:40,291
that was metastasizing
during these times.
1390
01:10:41,791 --> 01:10:45,875
A more realistic explanation
for McKinley's assassination
1391
01:10:45,916 --> 01:10:49,791
was that it was carried
out via a devious plot
1392
01:10:49,833 --> 01:10:53,791
which incorporated Leon
Czolgosz as its patsy.
1393
01:10:53,833 --> 01:10:58,250
As a fact, we do know
that Czolgosz's bullets
1394
01:10:58,291 --> 01:11:01,041
didn't execute the fatal damage.
1395
01:11:01,083 --> 01:11:03,041
It took some medical malpractice
1396
01:11:03,083 --> 01:11:05,875
or another method of
blood poisoning
1397
01:11:05,916 --> 01:11:08,291
to complete the
exterminating task.
1398
01:11:08,333 --> 01:11:10,541
But who was behind this
presidential murder
1399
01:11:10,583 --> 01:11:13,666
if it wasn't just Leon Czolgosz
1400
01:11:13,708 --> 01:11:15,333
wanting to become Fred Somebody?
1401
01:11:16,708 --> 01:11:21,208
Who had a motive to kill
the U.S. president in 1901,
1402
01:11:21,250 --> 01:11:23,541
and who could get away
with it unscathed?
1403
01:11:24,500 --> 01:11:26,083
Who could manipulate the media
1404
01:11:26,125 --> 01:11:29,250
into portraying it as
an anarchist act
1405
01:11:29,291 --> 01:11:31,416
and get it all swept
under the carpet
1406
01:11:31,458 --> 01:11:33,208
before anyone could
learn the truth
1407
01:11:33,250 --> 01:11:35,208
behind this executive treachery?
1408
01:11:36,708 --> 01:11:39,875
Well, let's look at William
McKinley's political history
1409
01:11:39,916 --> 01:11:41,625
and his presidential goals,
1410
01:11:41,666 --> 01:11:45,083
and who had the most to
gain by eliminating him.
1411
01:11:45,125 --> 01:11:47,791
After doing battle in
the Civil War,
1412
01:11:47,833 --> 01:11:50,625
William McKinley began
his political career
1413
01:11:50,666 --> 01:11:53,416
as an American isolationist,
1414
01:11:53,458 --> 01:11:56,666
not in the sense of the
anarchists, of course, no.
1415
01:11:56,708 --> 01:11:59,375
He sought, like many
leaders of the time,
1416
01:11:59,416 --> 01:12:02,250
to keep America, as
much as possible,
1417
01:12:02,291 --> 01:12:06,083
economically independent
from the rest of the world.
1418
01:12:06,125 --> 01:12:08,458
He was a great proponent
of high tariffs
1419
01:12:08,500 --> 01:12:10,833
on foreign products.
1420
01:12:10,875 --> 01:12:13,166
As a Republican protectionist,
1421
01:12:13,208 --> 01:12:16,208
McKinley understood
that substantial tariffs
1422
01:12:16,250 --> 01:12:20,000
prevented the importation
of many international goods
1423
01:12:20,041 --> 01:12:22,750
because it made doing
business in the U.S.
1424
01:12:22,791 --> 01:12:24,791
too expensive for
many foreigners.
1425
01:12:25,791 --> 01:12:28,125
Another benefit of
the high tariffs
1426
01:12:28,166 --> 01:12:30,666
was that it generated
significant revenue
1427
01:12:30,708 --> 01:12:31,916
for the government,
1428
01:12:31,958 --> 01:12:34,333
thus downsizing the need to rely
1429
01:12:34,375 --> 01:12:37,416
upon American citizens'
hard-earned money
1430
01:12:37,458 --> 01:12:40,125
to pay for the
government's expenses.
1431
01:12:40,166 --> 01:12:44,125
In other words, it limited
the need for income taxes.
1432
01:12:45,416 --> 01:12:48,375
A natural result was that
American-made products
1433
01:12:48,416 --> 01:12:51,291
had much less
competition at home,
1434
01:12:51,333 --> 01:12:54,791
which allowed them to be
sold for greater prices.
1435
01:12:54,833 --> 01:12:57,500
The higher profits for
American industry
1436
01:12:57,541 --> 01:13:00,083
permitted higher wages
for American workers.
1437
01:13:01,416 --> 01:13:04,416
Did these protectionist
plans get McKinley killed
1438
01:13:04,458 --> 01:13:07,208
by angry agents of
foreign nations?
1439
01:13:08,333 --> 01:13:10,208
No, not at all.
1440
01:13:10,250 --> 01:13:12,500
McKinley's high tariff
agenda persisted
1441
01:13:12,541 --> 01:13:16,333
during his tenure in Congress
and as Ohio's governor.
1442
01:13:17,583 --> 01:13:21,125
It all ended when he
became president in 1896.
1443
01:13:22,458 --> 01:13:24,791
President McKinley was
thrown a curve ball
1444
01:13:24,833 --> 01:13:27,166
when he reluctantly
entered the United States
1445
01:13:27,208 --> 01:13:29,708
into the
Spanish-American War in 1898.
1446
01:13:31,083 --> 01:13:34,416
Upon the war's quick
conclusion in America's favor,
1447
01:13:34,458 --> 01:13:36,833
to the victors went the spoils.
1448
01:13:36,875 --> 01:13:40,166
And America gained several
territories from Spain,
1449
01:13:40,208 --> 01:13:45,041
including Puerto Rico, Wake,
Guam, and the Philippines.
1450
01:13:46,500 --> 01:13:50,250
The U.S. also annexed the
Hawaiian Islands that summer.
1451
01:13:50,291 --> 01:13:53,125
American businessmen were
now much more excited
1452
01:13:53,166 --> 01:13:56,166
about the prospect of
overseas trade,
1453
01:13:56,208 --> 01:14:00,083
and thus William McKinley
was reborn as a free trader.
1454
01:14:01,666 --> 01:14:06,625
On September 5th, 1901, the
day before he was assassinated,
1455
01:14:07,625 --> 01:14:09,208
William McKinley
delivered a speech
1456
01:14:09,250 --> 01:14:12,583
to 50,000 people in New York,
proclaiming,
1457
01:14:12,625 --> 01:14:15,958
- [William] "Isolation is no
longer possible or desirable.
1458
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:17,625
"The period of
exclusiveness is past.
1459
01:14:18,791 --> 01:14:21,083
"The expansion of our
trade and commerce
1460
01:14:21,125 --> 01:14:22,875
"is the pressing problem.
1461
01:14:22,916 --> 01:14:25,125
"Commercial wars are
unprofitable.
1462
01:14:25,166 --> 01:14:28,208
"A policy of good will and
friendly trade relations
1463
01:14:28,250 --> 01:14:30,916
"will prevent reprisals."
1464
01:14:30,958 --> 01:14:34,166
- Was William McKinley's
reversal on trade
1465
01:14:34,208 --> 01:14:36,875
and what it meant to
the private banks
1466
01:14:36,916 --> 01:14:39,833
the true cause of his
mortal demise?
1467
01:14:39,875 --> 01:14:44,833
In March 1900, the Gold Standard
Act of the United States
1468
01:14:44,875 --> 01:14:46,916
was signed by William McKinley.
1469
01:14:48,041 --> 01:14:51,416
This declared gold as
the only standard
1470
01:14:51,458 --> 01:14:53,791
for redeeming paper money,
1471
01:14:53,833 --> 01:14:55,500
and it was a knife in the gut
1472
01:14:55,541 --> 01:14:58,333
to the international
centralized banks
1473
01:14:58,375 --> 01:14:59,500
who had been in and out
1474
01:14:59,541 --> 01:15:02,166
of America's
money-issuing control
1475
01:15:02,208 --> 01:15:04,166
for the previous 100 years.
1476
01:15:05,250 --> 01:15:08,083
Under this act,
United States notes
1477
01:15:08,125 --> 01:15:10,750
became redeemable for gold
1478
01:15:10,791 --> 01:15:15,833
at the then historic
rate of $20.67 per ounce.
1479
01:15:17,541 --> 01:15:21,041
This bolstered U.S. notes'
credibility as money,
1480
01:15:21,083 --> 01:15:23,583
and it substantially
injured the strength
1481
01:15:23,625 --> 01:15:25,625
of private bank notes,
1482
01:15:25,666 --> 01:15:29,583
thus greatly diminishing
international bankers' profits.
1483
01:15:30,916 --> 01:15:34,083
Having just endured one of
the centralized bankers'
1484
01:15:34,125 --> 01:15:38,125
contrived panics, the
Panic of 1893,
1485
01:15:39,416 --> 01:15:42,333
the president was adamant
about the gold standard,
1486
01:15:42,375 --> 01:15:44,125
and he threatened
full enforcement,
1487
01:15:45,416 --> 01:15:48,458
so it wasn't directly
McKinley's trade policy
1488
01:15:48,500 --> 01:15:50,541
that threatened these banks.
1489
01:15:50,583 --> 01:15:52,541
It was the institution
of the gold standard.
1490
01:15:53,750 --> 01:15:56,875
Further enraging the
international bankers,
1491
01:15:56,916 --> 01:15:59,500
McKinley sent
negotiators to Europe
1492
01:15:59,541 --> 01:16:01,875
to attempt a silver
agreement with France
1493
01:16:01,916 --> 01:16:02,500
and Great Britain.
1494
01:16:03,791 --> 01:16:06,791
This would have made
large sums of silver money
1495
01:16:06,833 --> 01:16:08,833
available in the
cash-starved U.S.
1496
01:16:10,166 --> 01:16:14,250
McKinley, no doubt, had
become Enemy Number One
1497
01:16:14,291 --> 01:16:16,000
to these powerful banks.
1498
01:16:17,083 --> 01:16:20,333
The Gold Standard Act
declared that,
1499
01:16:20,375 --> 01:16:21,625
- [Narrator] "The gold
dollar shall be
1500
01:16:21,666 --> 01:16:23,666
"the standard unit of value,
1501
01:16:23,708 --> 01:16:26,458
"and all forms of money
issued or coined
1502
01:16:26,500 --> 01:16:29,250
"by the United States
shall be maintained
1503
01:16:29,291 --> 01:16:32,708
"at a parity of value with
this standard."
1504
01:16:32,750 --> 01:16:35,500
- Bank notes, U.S. notes,
1505
01:16:35,541 --> 01:16:37,916
and all other forms of money
1506
01:16:37,958 --> 01:16:41,666
had to conform to this standard.
1507
01:16:41,708 --> 01:16:44,791
No longer free to value
different forms of money
1508
01:16:44,833 --> 01:16:46,541
as they saw fit,
1509
01:16:46,583 --> 01:16:48,916
the international bankers
were constrained
1510
01:16:48,958 --> 01:16:50,416
from issuing paper money
1511
01:16:50,458 --> 01:16:53,083
that couldn't be
redeemed in gold.
1512
01:16:53,125 --> 01:16:57,000
The gold standard ensured
that the money supply
1513
01:16:57,041 --> 01:16:59,250
and hence the price level
1514
01:16:59,291 --> 01:17:02,083
would remain
relatively constant,
1515
01:17:02,125 --> 01:17:04,958
which of course was a
complete financial disaster
1516
01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:07,458
for the international
centralized bankers.
1517
01:17:08,583 --> 01:17:10,791
This all changed with
the assassination
1518
01:17:10,833 --> 01:17:12,041
of William McKinley.
1519
01:17:13,500 --> 01:17:15,750
For the gold standard to work,
1520
01:17:15,791 --> 01:17:19,125
banks were supposed to play
by the rules of the game.
1521
01:17:20,125 --> 01:17:22,333
They were supposed
to raise rates
1522
01:17:22,375 --> 01:17:23,791
to encourage gold inflow,
1523
01:17:25,083 --> 01:17:28,833
and to lower their rates
to create a gold outflow.
1524
01:17:28,875 --> 01:17:32,166
The centralized bankers
wanted to do neither.
1525
01:17:32,208 --> 01:17:35,791
And that's simply because
these gold standard rules
1526
01:17:35,833 --> 01:17:39,125
took money-issuing
control away from them
1527
01:17:39,166 --> 01:17:42,875
and caused them massive
monetary losses.
1528
01:17:42,916 --> 01:17:46,958
Very quickly after President
McKinley's 1901 assassination,
1529
01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:50,875
his successor, the very famous
and loved Theodore Roosevelt,
1530
01:17:52,208 --> 01:17:56,375
vastly limited the effect
of the Gold Standard Act,
1531
01:17:56,416 --> 01:17:59,291
and the international
bankers were back
1532
01:17:59,333 --> 01:18:01,500
in much better business.
1533
01:18:01,541 --> 01:18:06,208
Even more so, this
initiated the meteoric rise
1534
01:18:06,250 --> 01:18:09,666
and creation of the
Federal Reserve System.
1535
01:18:11,083 --> 01:18:13,791
With a motive of all
motives in place,
1536
01:18:13,833 --> 01:18:16,500
these bankers just
needed what was necessary
1537
01:18:16,541 --> 01:18:21,458
in the two prior presidential
assassinations, a patsy,
1538
01:18:21,500 --> 01:18:23,416
and wouldn't Leon Czolgosz,
1539
01:18:23,458 --> 01:18:26,583
with his anarchist ties
and his internal need
1540
01:18:26,625 --> 01:18:30,000
to become a somebody,
be the perfect choice?
1541
01:18:30,791 --> 01:18:33,041
So perhaps common sense
1542
01:18:33,083 --> 01:18:35,875
coupled with an
extraordinary motive
1543
01:18:35,916 --> 01:18:37,708
and a lot of history
1544
01:18:37,750 --> 01:18:41,375
makes it quite possible
that Leon Czolgosz
1545
01:18:41,416 --> 01:18:43,500
did not act alone,
1546
01:18:43,541 --> 01:18:47,583
and that instead, he was a
recruited patsy
1547
01:18:47,625 --> 01:18:49,541
for the international bankers
1548
01:18:49,583 --> 01:18:52,833
who needed William McKinley
and his Gold Standard Act
1549
01:18:52,875 --> 01:18:54,458
out of the way.
1550
01:18:54,500 --> 01:18:57,583
One added interesting note about
the McKinley assassination,
1551
01:18:59,041 --> 01:19:03,000
Leon Czolgosz was tried
within a week of his shooting,
1552
01:19:03,041 --> 01:19:05,500
convicted the very next day,
1553
01:19:05,541 --> 01:19:08,000
and executed in under a month.
1554
01:19:08,041 --> 01:19:09,916
That was almost as quick a path
1555
01:19:09,958 --> 01:19:13,416
to rid the world of JFK's
alleged lone assassin,
1556
01:19:13,458 --> 01:19:14,583
Lee Harvey Oswald.
1557
01:19:15,708 --> 01:19:18,333
As we all know, Oswald
was gunned down
1558
01:19:18,375 --> 01:19:20,333
at the Dallas Police Department
1559
01:19:20,375 --> 01:19:23,666
just two days after he
murdered John Kennedy.
1560
01:19:23,708 --> 01:19:26,125
Nice and tidy, get rid
of the killers
1561
01:19:26,166 --> 01:19:28,791
before they can speak
about any accomplices.
1562
01:19:28,833 --> 01:19:31,875
[eerie piano music]
1563
01:19:36,458 --> 01:19:40,916
You know the phrase "Where
there's smoke, there's fire?"
1564
01:19:40,958 --> 01:19:45,041
Three presidents, Abraham
Lincoln, James Garfield,
1565
01:19:45,083 --> 01:19:48,833
and William McKinley
instituted major upheavals
1566
01:19:48,875 --> 01:19:51,291
in the U.S. monetary system.
1567
01:19:51,333 --> 01:19:56,208
Specifically, they took power
of issuing America's money
1568
01:19:56,250 --> 01:20:00,291
away from the centralized
private banking cartels
1569
01:20:00,333 --> 01:20:04,708
and gave it to the U.S.
Treasury, to the people.
1570
01:20:04,750 --> 01:20:09,000
And then these three
presidents ended up dead.
1571
01:20:09,041 --> 01:20:13,208
But like I said, where
there's smoke there's fire,
1572
01:20:13,250 --> 01:20:14,708
and another gun was fired
1573
01:20:14,750 --> 01:20:17,000
that killed yet
another president,
1574
01:20:17,041 --> 01:20:20,416
a very famous one, John F.
Kennedy.
1575
01:20:21,583 --> 01:20:23,958
This man didn't just
upset Richard Nixon
1576
01:20:24,000 --> 01:20:26,000
in the presidential race
1577
01:20:26,041 --> 01:20:29,208
or communist Cuba with
the Bay of Pigs.
1578
01:20:29,250 --> 01:20:32,791
No, he upset something
much more powerful,
1579
01:20:32,833 --> 01:20:34,291
the Federal Reserve banks.
1580
01:20:35,458 --> 01:20:39,541
Since their insidious
inception in 1913,
1581
01:20:39,583 --> 01:20:42,875
no U.S. president had
ever dared to upset
1582
01:20:42,916 --> 01:20:45,916
their trillion dollar
cartel enterprise.
1583
01:20:45,958 --> 01:20:48,708
Kennedy, however, took them on.
1584
01:20:48,750 --> 01:20:51,125
But how often have you
heard about this?
1585
01:20:51,166 --> 01:20:55,458
What everyone has heard
about, almost ad nauseam,
1586
01:20:55,500 --> 01:20:58,916
are endless debates about
how Lee Harvey Oswald
1587
01:20:58,958 --> 01:21:02,583
could have assassinated
JFK on his own.
1588
01:21:02,625 --> 01:21:05,375
Was Oswald a good
enough marksman,
1589
01:21:05,416 --> 01:21:07,750
could he have gotten
off three separate shots
1590
01:21:07,791 --> 01:21:12,083
with his low-budget 6.5
millimeter Carcano rifle
1591
01:21:13,166 --> 01:21:16,000
in the very quick timing
of the shooting?
1592
01:21:16,041 --> 01:21:19,791
How did the magic bullet go
through both President Kennedy
1593
01:21:19,833 --> 01:21:21,458
and Texas Governor
John Connally?
1594
01:21:22,791 --> 01:21:25,708
These questions and
several more of their type,
1595
01:21:25,750 --> 01:21:28,708
you've heard over
and over again.
1596
01:21:29,916 --> 01:21:33,166
The Warren Commission,
a group of politicos
1597
01:21:33,208 --> 01:21:36,166
assigned by President Lyndon B.
Johnson
1598
01:21:36,208 --> 01:21:40,041
to officially investigate
JFK's assassination,
1599
01:21:40,083 --> 01:21:42,416
determined that
Oswald acted alone
1600
01:21:43,541 --> 01:21:45,375
and the assassination
was carried out
1601
01:21:45,416 --> 01:21:48,250
via three bullets fired by him.
1602
01:21:49,250 --> 01:21:51,125
The general consensus, however,
1603
01:21:51,750 --> 01:21:55,041
is that the Warren Commission's
findings were bogus
1604
01:21:55,083 --> 01:21:56,333
for numerous reasons.
1605
01:21:57,291 --> 01:21:59,291
Here are just a few examples.
1606
01:21:59,625 --> 01:22:03,625
Kennedy was killed while riding
in a convertible limousine
1607
01:22:03,666 --> 01:22:06,583
down a Dallas street
near Dealey Plaza.
1608
01:22:07,750 --> 01:22:09,250
Oswald's shooting position
1609
01:22:09,291 --> 01:22:12,041
at Dallas' School Book
Depository building
1610
01:22:12,083 --> 01:22:13,500
was behind the limousine.
1611
01:22:14,708 --> 01:22:16,958
But the majority of
witnesses interviewed
1612
01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:18,625
by the Warren Commission
1613
01:22:18,666 --> 01:22:21,333
said the shots came from
the right front.
1614
01:22:22,708 --> 01:22:26,750
Many testified that they
saw unidentified armed men
1615
01:22:26,791 --> 01:22:28,458
in the area.
1616
01:22:28,500 --> 01:22:30,916
Three Dallas police
officers said
1617
01:22:30,958 --> 01:22:34,333
they came upon multiple
fake Secret Service agents.
1618
01:22:35,458 --> 01:22:37,833
Others provided evidence
to the Commission
1619
01:22:37,875 --> 01:22:41,875
that suggested a
radio-coordinated
assassination team
1620
01:22:41,916 --> 01:22:43,041
was at Dealey Plaza.
1621
01:22:44,375 --> 01:22:48,250
These type of discrepancies
go on and on and on.
1622
01:22:48,291 --> 01:22:51,125
No doubt the Warren
Commission's findings
1623
01:22:51,166 --> 01:22:53,166
had been rebuked,
1624
01:22:53,208 --> 01:22:55,416
and most intelligent
observers realized
1625
01:22:55,458 --> 01:22:58,583
that Lee Harvey Oswald
did not act alone
1626
01:22:58,625 --> 01:23:00,541
in assassinating John F.
Kennedy.
1627
01:23:01,958 --> 01:23:06,791
In 1979, even a Congressional
House Select Committee
1628
01:23:06,833 --> 01:23:10,708
found that JFK's
assassination was very likely
1629
01:23:10,750 --> 01:23:12,791
the product of a conspiracy.
1630
01:23:13,875 --> 01:23:17,208
But why, at whose behest?
1631
01:23:17,250 --> 01:23:21,708
There are, of course, numerous
propagandized theories.
1632
01:23:21,750 --> 01:23:26,500
Was it a conspiracy rooted in
Cuban government sympathizers,
1633
01:23:26,541 --> 01:23:30,250
or the work of the Mafia,
the CIA?
1634
01:23:30,291 --> 01:23:33,625
Or did Lyndon B. Johnson
want Kennedy dead
1635
01:23:33,666 --> 01:23:35,916
just so he could be
the Commander-in-Chief?
1636
01:23:37,041 --> 01:23:39,666
Were big corporate
defense contractors
1637
01:23:39,708 --> 01:23:41,291
behind the assassination
1638
01:23:41,333 --> 01:23:44,458
because they wanted an
escalation of the Vietnam War
1639
01:23:44,500 --> 01:23:46,000
and Kennedy resisted?
1640
01:23:47,041 --> 01:23:48,750
Or how about this theory,
1641
01:23:48,791 --> 01:23:51,375
that it was the vengeful
work of Richard Nixon?
1642
01:23:51,416 --> 01:23:53,458
Perhaps, think about this,
1643
01:23:54,750 --> 01:23:58,500
is all this battle over
how Lee Harvey Oswald
1644
01:23:58,541 --> 01:24:00,291
carried out the shooting
1645
01:24:00,333 --> 01:24:02,208
and whether it was him alone
1646
01:24:02,250 --> 01:24:05,500
or as part of one of these
many conspiracy theories
1647
01:24:05,541 --> 01:24:06,708
just being a smokescreen
1648
01:24:07,833 --> 01:24:11,250
to perhaps cover up the
one true plot
1649
01:24:11,291 --> 01:24:13,458
that is quite obvious
when you consider
1650
01:24:13,500 --> 01:24:15,083
the most basic of motives,
1651
01:24:16,291 --> 01:24:19,000
greed valued in the
trillions of dollars,
1652
01:24:19,958 --> 01:24:22,916
and a plot, as we have revealed,
1653
01:24:22,958 --> 01:24:24,791
that is steep in the history
1654
01:24:24,833 --> 01:24:27,625
of American presidential
assassinations?
1655
01:24:29,083 --> 01:24:30,791
Yes, it makes perfect sense
1656
01:24:30,833 --> 01:24:32,875
that John F. Kennedy
was executed
1657
01:24:32,916 --> 01:24:37,250
for the same sinister reasons
as his dead predecessors,
1658
01:24:37,291 --> 01:24:41,291
Abraham Lincoln, James
Garfield, and William McKinley.
1659
01:24:42,458 --> 01:24:44,458
But Kennedy took the
money-issuing power
1660
01:24:44,500 --> 01:24:46,750
away from the centralized
banking system
1661
01:24:46,791 --> 01:24:48,708
of the Federal Reserve.
1662
01:24:48,750 --> 01:24:51,833
In this big centralized
bank scenario,
1663
01:24:51,875 --> 01:24:54,666
a few of the potential
co-conspirators
1664
01:24:54,708 --> 01:24:57,125
identified in the
various theories,
1665
01:24:57,166 --> 01:24:59,125
very likely could
have been players
1666
01:24:59,166 --> 01:25:00,708
along with Lee Harvey Oswald.
1667
01:25:02,000 --> 01:25:04,583
Given that there surely
was a coordinated effort
1668
01:25:04,625 --> 01:25:08,166
at Dealey Plaza, who was
part of the hit team?
1669
01:25:08,208 --> 01:25:10,333
The Mafia, maybe.
1670
01:25:11,125 --> 01:25:14,791
The CIA, also maybe.
1671
01:25:14,833 --> 01:25:18,500
Cuban and other
communist sympathizers,
1672
01:25:18,541 --> 01:25:19,875
another good maybe.
1673
01:25:19,916 --> 01:25:21,875
After all, Lee
Harvey Oswald had,
1674
01:25:21,916 --> 01:25:26,750
a few years prior to the
killing, defected to Russia,
1675
01:25:26,791 --> 01:25:30,458
and his ties to Cuban interests
became public knowledge.
1676
01:25:31,583 --> 01:25:34,041
Could a conspiracy have
gone all the way
1677
01:25:34,083 --> 01:25:36,708
to the vice-president, Lyndon B.
Johnson?
1678
01:25:37,708 --> 01:25:39,833
The ultimate presidential power
1679
01:25:39,875 --> 01:25:43,083
is always a motive one
can't ignore.
1680
01:25:43,125 --> 01:25:47,458
And as we will see, Johnson
did immediately do something
1681
01:25:47,500 --> 01:25:50,458
after JFK's untimely death
1682
01:25:50,500 --> 01:25:53,750
that inextricably linked
him to the favoritism
1683
01:25:53,791 --> 01:25:55,875
of the Federal Reserve banks.
1684
01:25:56,708 --> 01:25:58,333
Now as for Oswald,
1685
01:25:58,375 --> 01:26:02,041
the Warren Commission did
seem to get one thing right.
1686
01:26:02,083 --> 01:26:05,458
When attempting to cite a
motive for this man, they wrote,
1687
01:26:05,500 --> 01:26:06,958
- [Warren Commission
Member] "Lee Harvey Oswald
1688
01:26:07,000 --> 01:26:10,291
"was perpetually discontented
with the world around him.
1689
01:26:10,333 --> 01:26:11,875
"Long before the assassination,
1690
01:26:11,916 --> 01:26:14,458
"he expressed his hatred
for American society
1691
01:26:14,500 --> 01:26:16,041
"and acted in protest
against it."
1692
01:26:17,458 --> 01:26:21,958
- In other words, Oswald was
the perfect pasty choice.
1693
01:26:22,000 --> 01:26:25,166
Much like the Garfield
and McKinley assassins,
1694
01:26:25,208 --> 01:26:28,000
he was a loner and loser,
1695
01:26:28,041 --> 01:26:32,166
but one who was on the
radar of powerful sources.
1696
01:26:32,208 --> 01:26:35,250
Remember, the government
was well aware
1697
01:26:35,291 --> 01:26:37,750
of the discontent that
Charles Guiteau had
1698
01:26:37,791 --> 01:26:39,458
with President Garfield
1699
01:26:39,500 --> 01:26:43,000
for not appointing him to a
coveted ambassador position.
1700
01:26:44,416 --> 01:26:47,750
And officials during President
McKinley's presidency
1701
01:26:47,791 --> 01:26:51,791
surely were well aware of
Leon Czolgosz's anarchist ties
1702
01:26:53,166 --> 01:26:56,291
and the group's very public
disassociation with him.
1703
01:26:57,416 --> 01:26:59,125
While John Wilkes Booth
was no loser,
1704
01:27:00,625 --> 01:27:03,416
many of influence knew of his
hatred of Abraham Lincoln.
1705
01:27:04,541 --> 01:27:07,625
All these men, including,
quite saliently,
1706
01:27:07,666 --> 01:27:11,708
Lee Harvey Oswald, were
easy to identify and recruit
1707
01:27:12,958 --> 01:27:15,791
into a plot that could
be sold to the public
1708
01:27:15,833 --> 01:27:19,750
as disaffected gunmen who
initiated their own plans
1709
01:27:19,791 --> 01:27:21,375
to kill the president.
1710
01:27:21,416 --> 01:27:23,750
But really, we know better.
1711
01:27:25,083 --> 01:27:29,208
In each of these cases,
there was a central group
1712
01:27:29,250 --> 01:27:32,833
with that much more
powerful motive
1713
01:27:32,875 --> 01:27:37,083
who had the resources to
orchestrate true conspiracies
1714
01:27:37,125 --> 01:27:41,083
using unwitting pawns in
their strategic processes.
1715
01:27:42,333 --> 01:27:45,625
Of course this group was
the centralized bankers.
1716
01:27:45,666 --> 01:27:47,791
In John F. Kennedy's murder,
1717
01:27:47,833 --> 01:27:52,500
this extremely likely
culprit was very specifically
1718
01:27:52,541 --> 01:27:54,750
the Federal Reserve,
1719
01:27:54,791 --> 01:27:58,416
the central bank of his
and our time.
1720
01:27:59,333 --> 01:28:01,875
But what exactly did Kennedy do
1721
01:28:01,916 --> 01:28:04,833
that so upset the
Federal Reserve banks
1722
01:28:04,875 --> 01:28:08,416
that would cause them to
seek his quick removal?
1723
01:28:08,458 --> 01:28:12,000
[suspenseful piano music]
1724
01:28:14,916 --> 01:28:17,791
When John F. Kennedy narrowly
defeated Richard Nixon
1725
01:28:17,833 --> 01:28:21,541
in the 1960
presidential election,
1726
01:28:21,583 --> 01:28:24,041
the Federal Reserve
bankers were elated.
1727
01:28:25,291 --> 01:28:28,625
Kennedy was the son of
one of the most powerful
1728
01:28:28,666 --> 01:28:30,916
and allegedly corrupt political
1729
01:28:30,958 --> 01:28:34,833
backroom bosses, Joseph Kennedy.
1730
01:28:34,875 --> 01:28:40,000
JFK's father had catapulted
to mega economic prosperity
1731
01:28:40,041 --> 01:28:42,083
through, among other things,
1732
01:28:42,125 --> 01:28:44,458
high-level dealings
in government
1733
01:28:44,500 --> 01:28:46,208
and the financial industry.
1734
01:28:47,291 --> 01:28:49,750
After many major
banking successes
1735
01:28:49,791 --> 01:28:53,708
and numerous purported
high-level criminal acts,
1736
01:28:53,750 --> 01:28:56,375
including a massive
bootlegging operation
1737
01:28:56,416 --> 01:28:57,500
during the Prohibition era,
1738
01:28:58,875 --> 01:29:02,416
Joseph Kennedy was appointed
by Franklin D. Roosevelt
1739
01:29:02,458 --> 01:29:03,875
to be the first chairman
1740
01:29:03,916 --> 01:29:06,291
of the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission.
1741
01:29:07,833 --> 01:29:12,000
In referring to this
appointment,
FDR infamously declared,
1742
01:29:12,041 --> 01:29:14,541
- [Franklin] "I'm getting
a crook to catch crooks."
1743
01:29:14,583 --> 01:29:16,333
- A well known
historical account
1744
01:29:16,375 --> 01:29:18,666
is that Joseph
Kennedy was obsessed
1745
01:29:18,708 --> 01:29:21,291
with getting his son
the presidency.
1746
01:29:21,333 --> 01:29:24,250
And a well-known telegraph
from the elder Kennedy
1747
01:29:24,291 --> 01:29:27,083
summed up his
philosophy as he wrote,
1748
01:29:27,125 --> 01:29:29,291
- [Joseph] "Don't buy a single
vote more than necessary,
1749
01:29:29,333 --> 01:29:32,208
"I'll be damned if I'm going
to pay for a landslide."
1750
01:29:32,250 --> 01:29:34,583
- Joseph Kennedy wanted
the absolute power
1751
01:29:34,625 --> 01:29:37,833
of the U.S. presidency
in the family,
1752
01:29:37,875 --> 01:29:40,166
but he also wanted to maintain
1753
01:29:40,208 --> 01:29:42,333
the hundreds of
millions of dollars
1754
01:29:42,375 --> 01:29:44,375
that he had accumulated.
1755
01:29:44,416 --> 01:29:47,500
May this be reminiscent
of the thought processes
1756
01:29:47,541 --> 01:29:50,416
embraced by the international
central bankers?
1757
01:29:51,291 --> 01:29:53,791
The banking cartels twofold goal
1758
01:29:53,833 --> 01:29:55,750
has forever been a mighty one,
1759
01:29:56,625 --> 01:29:59,458
control the issuing of the money
1760
01:29:59,500 --> 01:30:04,625
and obtain and retain the
ultimate level of political
power
1761
01:30:04,666 --> 01:30:05,791
and financial wealth.
1762
01:30:07,083 --> 01:30:10,583
No doubt with the Kennedy
family history in place,
1763
01:30:10,625 --> 01:30:12,791
the Federal Reserve felt
very comfortable
1764
01:30:12,833 --> 01:30:15,416
with the election of John F.
Kennedy.
1765
01:30:15,458 --> 01:30:18,333
Business as usual would
certainly persist
1766
01:30:18,375 --> 01:30:19,458
under his presidency.
1767
01:30:20,625 --> 01:30:24,708
But nay, JFK had other ideas.
1768
01:30:24,750 --> 01:30:28,958
With the stroke of a
pen on June 4th, 1963,
1769
01:30:29,000 --> 01:30:32,458
President Kennedy signed
Executive Order number 11110.
1770
01:30:35,291 --> 01:30:39,541
This order gave the U.S.
Treasury the power to, quote,
1771
01:30:39,583 --> 01:30:43,708
"Issue silver certificates
against any silver bullion,
1772
01:30:43,750 --> 01:30:47,625
"silver, or standard silver
dollars in the Treasury."
1773
01:30:48,791 --> 01:30:50,833
This meant that for every
ounce of silver
1774
01:30:50,875 --> 01:30:53,166
in the U.S. Treasury's vault,
1775
01:30:53,208 --> 01:30:56,041
the government could issue
new money into circulation.
1776
01:30:57,458 --> 01:31:01,250
This was very bad news for
the Federal Reserve banks.
1777
01:31:01,291 --> 01:31:05,583
You see, JFK had ambitious
plans to put a man on the moon,
1778
01:31:06,875 --> 01:31:11,083
develop an internationally
robust Peace Corps,
1779
01:31:11,125 --> 01:31:14,083
fund a growing war in Vietnam,
1780
01:31:14,125 --> 01:31:17,333
and further many social
reforms in a manner
1781
01:31:17,375 --> 01:31:21,000
that had never before been
accomplished in America.
1782
01:31:21,041 --> 01:31:24,333
To do so, he needed a
lot of money.
1783
01:31:25,750 --> 01:31:29,500
The Federal Reserve was
willing to issue this money,
1784
01:31:29,541 --> 01:31:30,708
but with big strings attached.
1785
01:31:32,208 --> 01:31:35,375
They wanted billions of dollars
in interest paid to them.
1786
01:31:36,458 --> 01:31:39,541
Sound familiar, sound
like a dilemma
1787
01:31:39,583 --> 01:31:41,666
that one Abraham Lincoln faced
1788
01:31:41,708 --> 01:31:44,041
when he needed to fund
the Civil War?
1789
01:31:45,000 --> 01:31:48,125
And what did old Honest Abe do
1790
01:31:48,166 --> 01:31:51,916
when the centralized bankers
wanted 35% in interest
1791
01:31:51,958 --> 01:31:52,916
paid to them?
1792
01:31:53,875 --> 01:31:56,000
He sidestepped them
1793
01:31:56,041 --> 01:31:59,333
and had the Treasury
issue U.S. bank notes,
1794
01:31:59,375 --> 01:32:02,833
specifically his greenbacks.
1795
01:32:02,875 --> 01:32:05,416
What did Mr. Kennedy do?
1796
01:32:05,458 --> 01:32:09,291
He also kicked the centralized
bankers to the curb.
1797
01:32:09,333 --> 01:32:11,416
When the Federal Reserve
banks demanded
1798
01:32:11,458 --> 01:32:14,541
their usual high interest rates,
1799
01:32:14,583 --> 01:32:18,000
JFK instituted Executive
Order number 11110
1800
01:32:20,500 --> 01:32:24,500
which allowed the U.S.
Treasury to issue its own money
1801
01:32:24,541 --> 01:32:25,791
backed by silver.
1802
01:32:26,625 --> 01:32:28,541
President Kennedy's action
1803
01:32:28,583 --> 01:32:32,250
put the Federal Reserve's
operations in serious jeopardy.
1804
01:32:33,458 --> 01:32:36,083
JFK's silver
certificate program,
1805
01:32:36,125 --> 01:32:38,333
if carried out as planned,
1806
01:32:38,375 --> 01:32:40,083
would have reduced the necessity
1807
01:32:40,125 --> 01:32:43,000
to borrow Federal Reserve notes.
1808
01:32:43,041 --> 01:32:45,583
If implemented faithfully,
1809
01:32:45,625 --> 01:32:49,708
Executive Order number 11110
1810
01:32:49,750 --> 01:32:51,791
would have given the
government the ability
1811
01:32:51,833 --> 01:32:55,916
to do all of the things
on JFK's agenda
1812
01:32:55,958 --> 01:33:00,166
without paying interest on
new Federal Reserve money.
1813
01:33:01,166 --> 01:33:02,500
This obviously would have been
1814
01:33:02,541 --> 01:33:07,458
a catastrophic financial
disaster for these banks.
1815
01:33:07,500 --> 01:33:11,333
So like Lincoln, who greatly
diminished the wealth and power
1816
01:33:11,375 --> 01:33:13,958
of the centralized bankers,
1817
01:33:14,000 --> 01:33:18,083
Kennedy was a major
obstacle for this cartel.
1818
01:33:18,125 --> 01:33:20,125
And what better way to
handle an obstacle
1819
01:33:20,166 --> 01:33:21,291
than to remove it?
1820
01:33:22,583 --> 01:33:26,250
In order for Executive
Order number 11110
1821
01:33:26,291 --> 01:33:30,583
to be eliminated, John F.
Kennedy had to be eliminated.
1822
01:33:31,708 --> 01:33:34,500
And on November 22, 1963,
1823
01:33:35,750 --> 01:33:38,375
just six months after
the president had signed
1824
01:33:38,416 --> 01:33:42,458
this historic order,
Kennedy was assassinated.
1825
01:33:43,416 --> 01:33:45,333
After JFK's murder,
1826
01:33:45,375 --> 01:33:47,458
no more silver
certificates were issued.
1827
01:33:48,583 --> 01:33:51,291
Lyndon B. Johnson,
Kennedy's successor,
1828
01:33:51,333 --> 01:33:55,583
ignored Executive Order 11110.
1829
01:33:55,625 --> 01:33:59,458
The Federal Reserve banking
cartel maintained its monopoly
1830
01:33:59,500 --> 01:34:03,166
to issue and control
America's money,
1831
01:34:03,208 --> 01:34:05,541
and no president since John F.
Kennedy
1832
01:34:05,583 --> 01:34:09,291
has sought to interfere
with this exclusive power.
1833
01:34:09,333 --> 01:34:13,041
The U.S. Treasury, the
natural and logical choice
1834
01:34:13,083 --> 01:34:15,666
to control and issue
America's money,
1835
01:34:15,708 --> 01:34:18,416
as it would save taxpayers
hundreds of billions
1836
01:34:18,458 --> 01:34:20,208
of dollars yearly,
1837
01:34:20,250 --> 01:34:21,708
is powerless in this regard.
1838
01:34:23,083 --> 01:34:27,500
So do you think Lee Harvey
Oswald hatched the plan
1839
01:34:27,541 --> 01:34:29,791
to assassinate JFK
1840
01:34:29,833 --> 01:34:32,166
and carried out the
murder on his own?
1841
01:34:33,500 --> 01:34:36,125
Well, perhaps he had a
little help from a friend,
1842
01:34:37,625 --> 01:34:41,625
a very wealthy and powerful
monster cartel of a friend.
1843
01:34:43,083 --> 01:34:47,416
Abraham Lincoln's monetary
policy, as codified in 1865
1844
01:34:47,458 --> 01:34:51,791
in U.S. Senate document
number 23 provides,
1845
01:34:51,833 --> 01:34:53,500
- [Narrator] "Money is
the creature of law,
1846
01:34:53,541 --> 01:34:56,250
"and the creation of the
original issue of money
1847
01:34:56,291 --> 01:34:58,916
"should be maintained as
the exclusive monopoly
1848
01:34:58,958 --> 01:35:00,500
"of national government."
1849
01:35:00,541 --> 01:35:03,208
- Of course the Federal
Reserve banks
1850
01:35:03,250 --> 01:35:07,416
and their predecessor
international centralized
bankers
1851
01:35:07,458 --> 01:35:09,250
couldn't have disagreed more
1852
01:35:09,291 --> 01:35:11,791
with Lincoln's monetary policy,
1853
01:35:11,833 --> 01:35:14,833
as well as those
instituted by Garfield,
1854
01:35:14,875 --> 01:35:18,541
McKinley, and most recently,
Kennedy.
1855
01:35:18,583 --> 01:35:21,791
These policies caused
massive monetary losses
1856
01:35:21,833 --> 01:35:23,333
to the centralized bankers,
1857
01:35:24,416 --> 01:35:27,875
men who have wielded the
greatest power
1858
01:35:27,916 --> 01:35:29,500
in ensuring their stranglehold
1859
01:35:29,541 --> 01:35:31,125
over the U.S. monetary system.
1860
01:35:32,333 --> 01:35:36,041
Louis T. McFadden, a
relentless congressman
1861
01:35:36,083 --> 01:35:38,291
who often took on the
Federal Reserve banks
1862
01:35:38,333 --> 01:35:41,166
as Chairman of the House
Banking Committee
1863
01:35:41,208 --> 01:35:43,208
back in the 1930s,
1864
01:35:43,250 --> 01:35:47,375
consistently explained
that monetary issues
1865
01:35:47,416 --> 01:35:49,250
shouldn't be partisan.
1866
01:35:49,291 --> 01:35:51,375
He criticized both the
Herbert Hoover
1867
01:35:51,416 --> 01:35:54,500
and Franklin Roosevelt
administrations.
1868
01:35:54,541 --> 01:35:58,041
In describing the Federal
Reserve, he remarked
1869
01:35:58,083 --> 01:36:02,500
in the 1932
Congressional Record that,
1870
01:36:02,541 --> 01:36:03,708
- [Louis] "We have in
this country
1871
01:36:03,750 --> 01:36:05,083
"one of the most
corrupt institutions
1872
01:36:05,125 --> 01:36:07,625
"the world has ever known.
1873
01:36:07,666 --> 01:36:10,250
"I refer to the Federal
Reserve Board
1874
01:36:10,291 --> 01:36:12,583
"and the Federal Reserve banks.
1875
01:36:12,625 --> 01:36:15,250
"The Federal Reserve
Board, a government board,
1876
01:36:15,291 --> 01:36:17,791
"has cheated the government
of the United States
1877
01:36:17,833 --> 01:36:19,750
"and the people of the
United States
1878
01:36:19,791 --> 01:36:22,583
"out of enough money to
pay the national debt.
1879
01:36:22,625 --> 01:36:24,916
"The depredations and
the iniquities
1880
01:36:24,958 --> 01:36:26,500
"of the Federal Reserve Board
1881
01:36:26,541 --> 01:36:29,333
"and the Federal Reserve
banks acting together
1882
01:36:29,375 --> 01:36:31,375
"have cost this
country enough money
1883
01:36:31,416 --> 01:36:34,583
"to pay the national
debt several times over.
1884
01:36:34,625 --> 01:36:37,333
"This evil institution
has impoverished
1885
01:36:37,375 --> 01:36:39,625
"and ruined the people
of the United States,
1886
01:36:39,666 --> 01:36:41,208
"has bankrupted itself,
1887
01:36:41,250 --> 01:36:43,750
"and has practically
bankrupted our government.
1888
01:36:43,791 --> 01:36:46,541
"It has done this through
the maladministration
1889
01:36:46,583 --> 01:36:49,333
"of that that law by which
the Federal Reserve Board
1890
01:36:49,375 --> 01:36:51,250
"and through the
corrupt practices
1891
01:36:51,291 --> 01:36:53,833
"of the money vultures
who control it."
1892
01:36:53,875 --> 01:36:56,041
- Congressman McFadden
additionally stated,
1893
01:36:57,458 --> 01:36:59,500
- [Louis] "Some people think
the Federal Reserve banks
1894
01:36:59,541 --> 01:37:02,000
"are United States
government institutions.
1895
01:37:02,041 --> 01:37:04,583
"They are not
government institutions.
1896
01:37:04,625 --> 01:37:06,375
"They are private
credit monopolies
1897
01:37:06,416 --> 01:37:08,791
"which prey upon the
people of the United States
1898
01:37:08,833 --> 01:37:12,125
"for the benefit of themselves
and their foreign customers,
1899
01:37:12,166 --> 01:37:15,125
"foreign and domestic
speculators and swindlers
1900
01:37:15,166 --> 01:37:17,583
"and rich and predatory
money lenders.
1901
01:37:17,625 --> 01:37:20,000
"In that dark crew of
financial pirates,
1902
01:37:20,041 --> 01:37:21,875
"there are those who
would cut a man's throat
1903
01:37:21,916 --> 01:37:23,625
"to get a dollar out
of his pocket.
1904
01:37:23,666 --> 01:37:25,750
"There are those who
send money into states
1905
01:37:25,791 --> 01:37:28,541
"to buy votes to control
our legislation,
1906
01:37:28,583 --> 01:37:30,083
"and there are those
who maintain
1907
01:37:30,125 --> 01:37:31,791
"an international propaganda
1908
01:37:31,833 --> 01:37:34,666
"for the purpose of deceiving
us and of wheedling us
1909
01:37:34,708 --> 01:37:37,083
"into the granting of
new concessions
1910
01:37:37,125 --> 01:37:40,250
"which will permit them to
cover up their past misdeeds
1911
01:37:40,291 --> 01:37:44,250
"and set again in motion
their gigantic train of crime.
1912
01:37:44,291 --> 01:37:46,625
"Those 12 private
credit monopolies
1913
01:37:46,666 --> 01:37:50,208
"were deceitfully and disloyally
foisted upon this country
1914
01:37:50,250 --> 01:37:52,208
"by bankers who came
here from Europe
1915
01:37:52,250 --> 01:37:54,750
"and who repaid us for
our hospitality
1916
01:37:54,791 --> 01:37:58,541
"by undermining our
American institutions."
1917
01:37:58,583 --> 01:38:01,458
- John F. Kennedy
understood this,
1918
01:38:01,500 --> 01:38:05,541
and he tried to muscle out
the Federal Reserve banks,
1919
01:38:05,583 --> 01:38:08,916
and thus, there was quite
a logical reason
1920
01:38:08,958 --> 01:38:10,333
for his assassination.
1921
01:38:11,375 --> 01:38:14,000
He took major money
issuing power
1922
01:38:14,041 --> 01:38:16,958
away from this banking cartel
1923
01:38:17,000 --> 01:38:19,750
and gave it back to the
people of the United States,
1924
01:38:19,791 --> 01:38:21,583
[eerie piano music]
1925
01:38:21,625 --> 01:38:23,500
and then he was killed.
1926
01:38:23,541 --> 01:38:25,875
The Federal Reserve banks
immediately got
1927
01:38:25,916 --> 01:38:27,416
what they desperately wanted
1928
01:38:27,458 --> 01:38:30,541
after President Kennedy's
assassination.
1929
01:38:30,583 --> 01:38:33,625
They once again
unilaterally controlled
1930
01:38:33,666 --> 01:38:35,541
the issuing of U.S. currency.
1931
01:38:36,416 --> 01:38:38,541
They once again had a business
1932
01:38:38,583 --> 01:38:43,083
that pays them literally
over $500 billion annually
1933
01:38:44,500 --> 01:38:48,208
through the interest they
charge to American taxpayers
1934
01:38:48,250 --> 01:38:50,000
for issuing our currency.
1935
01:38:50,958 --> 01:38:52,666
Was this a good enough reason
1936
01:38:52,708 --> 01:38:56,708
to launch a
conspiracy to kill JFK?
1937
01:38:58,041 --> 01:39:00,666
Is it just a coincidence
1938
01:39:00,708 --> 01:39:03,916
that all four
assassinated presidents,
1939
01:39:03,958 --> 01:39:09,000
Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley,
and Kennedy
1940
01:39:09,041 --> 01:39:11,916
were also the only
four presidents
1941
01:39:11,958 --> 01:39:14,916
who disallowed the central
bank's monopoly powers?
1942
01:39:16,333 --> 01:39:20,958
Is it also just a coincidence
that upon taking office,
1943
01:39:21,000 --> 01:39:22,833
each vice president who assumed
1944
01:39:22,875 --> 01:39:25,250
the Commander-in-Chief's post
1945
01:39:25,291 --> 01:39:29,166
immediately repealed the
decentralized banking orders
1946
01:39:29,208 --> 01:39:31,916
and re-instituted the
money-issuing powers
1947
01:39:31,958 --> 01:39:33,333
to the central banks?
1948
01:39:34,333 --> 01:39:35,416
I highly doubt it.
1949
01:39:36,666 --> 01:39:39,541
History does have a way
of repeating itself,
1950
01:39:39,583 --> 01:39:42,708
and what has history
definitively shown,
1951
01:39:43,791 --> 01:39:46,291
the only four
presidents who prevented
1952
01:39:46,333 --> 01:39:49,333
the international
banking cartels
1953
01:39:49,375 --> 01:39:51,041
from having the sole power
1954
01:39:51,083 --> 01:39:54,333
to issue and control U.S.
currency
1955
01:39:55,833 --> 01:40:00,083
are the only four presidents
who were ever assassinated,
1956
01:40:00,125 --> 01:40:03,666
Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield,
1957
01:40:03,708 --> 01:40:07,500
William McKinley, and
John Kennedy.
1958
01:40:07,541 --> 01:40:11,625
All were murdered after
taking action
1959
01:40:11,666 --> 01:40:15,541
to have money issued by the U.S.
Treasury,
1960
01:40:15,583 --> 01:40:20,000
not through centralized,
international private banks.
1961
01:40:20,041 --> 01:40:23,250
That is an undeniable fact.
1962
01:40:23,291 --> 01:40:25,291
[drum beating]
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