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enough to know that he couldn't make any serious moves against the Fed
during his first term when he was facing a tough reelection campaign.
During his second term, however, he may well have made such moves.
When discussing the family's plans vis-à-vis the Fed, Joe Kennedy was
talking in the long term. He knew that it would be impossible, virtually
overnight, to dethrone the Fed and its controllers in the international
banking community. That's why the ultimate goal of the Kennedy family
was to consolidate their power and then move to strip the Fed bare.
The fact is, as I do additionally point out in Final Judgment, that there
were interest-free U.S. Notes issued during the Kennedy administration. I've
had a few of them in my own hands—but here's what is critical to
remember: these were issued pursuant to a long-standing federal policy of
issuing a certain number of U.S. Notes on a regular basis. These notes
would have been issued no matter who was president at the time—unless, of
course, a populist president had come to power and knocked out the Federal
Reserve completely. But that didn't happen.
WHAT MARRS SAID . . .
Now for those who have cited Marrs' book as a source on this story, I
will repeat, verbatim, what Marrs had to say (and this is what other
advocates of this theory contend):
"Another overlooked aspect of Kennedy's attempt to reform American
society involves money. Kennedy apparently reasoned that by returning to
the Constitution, which states that only Congress shall coin and regulate
money, the soaring national debt could be reduced by not paying interest to
the bankers of the Federal Reserve System, who print paper money [and]
then loan it to the government at interest.
"He moved in this area on June 4, 1963, by signing Executive order
11,110 which called for the issuance of $4,292,893,815 in United States
Notes through the U.S. Treasury rather than the traditional Federal Reserve
System. That same day, Kennedy signed a bill changing the backing of one-and
two-dollar bills from silver to gold, adding strength to the weakened U.S.
currency . . . A number of 'Kennedy bills' were indeed issued—the author
has a five-dollar bill in his possession with the heading 'United States
Note'—but were quickly withdrawn after Kennedy's death." 889
MISINFORMATION
Now careful readers of Mans' book would no doubt turn to his reference
notes to find out his source on this information. I'm sorry to report that he
cites my own former newspaper, The Spotlight, specifically its issue of
October 31, 1988 (page 2), as the source of this information.
The reason why I say I'm sorry is because in the very next issue, our
weekly newspaper published an apologetic correction from the editor
indicating that the information was erroneous and should never have been