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Copyright © 2019 by Donald Jeffries Foreword Copyright © 2019 by Ron Paul All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without the express written consent of the publisher, except in the case of brief excerpts in critical reviews or articles. All inquiries should be addressed to Sky- horse Publishing, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018. Skyhorse Publishing books may be purchased in bulk at special discounts for sales promotion, corporate gifts, fund- raising, or educational purposes. Special editions can also be created to specifications. For details, contact the Special Sales Department, Skyhorse Publishing, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018 or info@skyhorsepub lishing.com. Skyhorse® and Skyhorse Publishing® are registered trademarks of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.®, a Delaware corpora- tion. Visit our website at www.skyhorsepublishing.com. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file. Cover design by Qualcom ISBN: 978-1-5107-4147-8 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-5107-4148-5 Printed in the United States of America This book is dedicated to my son, John, who is also a seeker of truth, a lover of jus‐ tice, and a student of real history. CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR FOREWORD BY RON PAUL INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE THE BIRTH OF THE REPUBLIC The Slandering of Jefferson Sacrifices of the Founders Benjamin Franklin Thomas Paine Shays’ and Whiskey Rebellions Adam Weishaupt and the Illuminati Our Revolutionary Legacy CHAPTER TWO PRE–1860: JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY Meriwether Lewis The War of 1812 Freemasons and Anti-Masons Andrew Jackson Remember the Alamo The Mexican-American War John Brown CHAPTER THREE HONEST ABE Clement Vallandigham The Invention of Total War Lincoln the Racist Lincoln the Warmonger Lincoln the Atheist Lincoln’s True Legacy CHAPTER FOUR THE LINCOLN ASSASSINATION The “Trial” of the Conspirators CHAPTER FIVE POST–CIVIL WAR AMERICA Reconstruction The 1876 Election The Garfield Assassination Reconstruction Fallout The Populists Spanish-American War CHAPTER SIX THE 1900s–1920s The McKinley Assassination Bully for Teddy Roosevelt The 1913 Federal Reserve Act Cowboys and Indians Anti-Union Violence World War I The Death of President Harding Prohibition Sacco and Vanzetti CHAPTER SEVEN THE DEPRESSING 1930s The Bonus Army The Lindbergh Kidnapping CHAPTER EIGHT FDR CHANNELS LINCOLN Pearl Harbor Jeannette Rankin Crushing Domestic Dissent Mussolini Allied War Atrocities CHAPTER NINE POSTWAR AMERICA The Alleged Suicide of Hitler More Allied Atrocities Glenn Miller Eddie Slovik The Nuremberg Trials Truman Drops the Bomb The Creation of Israel Robert Taft War is a Racket The Cancer Explosion/Vaccinations/Government Experimentation CHAPTER TEN THE FABULOUS FIFTIES Senator Joseph McCarthy The Central Intelligence Agency Korean War The Reece Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations The Rosenbergs The True Cost of Communism World Government CHAPTER ELEVEN CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY NOTES INDEX ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS would like to thank the following people who helped me during the course of writing this book: I Meriwether Lewis descendant Howell Bowen, Cathy Vallandigham, John Wilkes Booth descendant Joanne Hulme, Peter Secosh, and Lincoln assassination expert Nate Orlowek. Talk show host Tim Kelly was interested enough to interview me about the subject of this book, a few years before it was even pub‐ lished. American Free Press and Lew Rockwell were kind enough to publish my articles, some of which touched upon the sort of hidden history described in this book. I am grateful for all my newfound cyber friends: Midnight Writer News host S. T. Patrick provided encouragement and support and published my article on Abraham Lincoln in his Deep Truth Journal; talk show hosts Richard Syrett and Meria Heller; courageous whistleblower Heidi Weber, who was featured on CBS’s “Whistleblower with Alex Ferrer” and associate producer and consultant to Season 2; JFK assassination researcher William Law; especially Billy Ray Valentine, host of the Infinite Fringe radio program; and the wonderful Eyerly Felder, host of Whistleblower Heroes and other shows, who led me down the new path of talk radio hosting. A special thanks to show business legend and important JFK assassination researcher John Barbour, who was consis‐ tently supportive, and to my delight has become a good friend. I am also indebted to my hard-working edi‐ tor at Skyhorse, Michael Campbell. And as always, I want to say how much I appreciate my family for their encouragement and support, especially my lovely wife Jeanne, for her unending positivity. Last but not least, my children John and Julianna, who I am so proud of, and feel blessed to be their father. ABOUT THE AUTHOR onald Jeffries has been researching the JFK assassination since the mid-1970s, when he was a D teenage volunteer for Mark Lane’s Citizens Committee of Inquiry. His 2007 sci-fi cult classic “The Unreals” was lauded by the likes of multi-awardwinning author and former Harvard professor Alexander Theroux and screenwriter (“Night at the Museum”) and actor (“Reno 911”) R. Ben Garant. His 2014 book Hidden History: An Expose of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Poli‐ tics became a bestseller, featured a foreword from Roger Stone, and received praise from Cindy Sheehan, former Rep. Cynthia McLinney, and Jerome Corsi. His next book, Survival of the Richest: How the Cor‐ ruption of the Marketplace and the Disparity of Wealth Created the Greatest Conspiracy of All, received unanimous critical acclaim, from leading feminist author Naomi Wolf to Jimmy Carter’s Chairman of the National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity Arthur Blaustein to Ron Paul’s former Chief of Staff Lew Rockwell. Jeffries is also the host of the weekly program “I Protest,” which airs on the IHeartRadio network. FOREWORD by Ron Paul y late friend Murray Rothbard, founder of the modern libertarian movement, saw historical M revisionism as one of the three pillars of libertarian scholarship, along with Austrian economics and natural rights theory. Revisionism is important because the “official” history promulgated by the court historians who dominate America’s education system—from K-12 to graduate schools, as well as the mainstream publishing industry, the so-called “news media,” and Hollywood—present a version of Ameri‐ can history where far-sighted, selfless leaders expand federal power to benefit the people—especially those oppressed by greedy one-percenters and the capitalist system. Those who stood against these attempts to expand government are either smeared or ignored. The fact that Thomas Jefferson, whose first draft of the Declaration of Independence condemned slavery, is routinely smeared as a racist and a child molester by mainstream historians and journalists while Alexander Hamilton, father of America central banking, is a Broadway sensation tells us everything need to know about the biases of America’s political, academic, and cultural elites. Revisionism counters the official narrative with the truth about the real agendas and actions of those behind the transformation of America from a republic to a gigantic welfare-warfare state. Therefore revi‐ sionism—along with a knowledge of sound economics and an embrace of the non-aggression principle—is one of the keys to convincing individuals to embrace the ideas of liberty but actively work to bring about the free society. Therefore, every lover of liberty should be thankful for Donald Jeffries’s Crimes and Cover-Ups in American Politics. Jeffries presents hidden facts and inconvenient truths about many major events in American history from the revolution era to the early days of the Cold War. Jeffries also tells the un‐ friendly and oftentimes ugly truth about the establishment’s heroes and rehabilitates many forgotten and/or smeared champions of liberty. Jeffries goes where even many revisionists fear to tread—addressing the racist views of Abraham Lin‐ coln, Ulysses S. Grant, and other northern leaders while exploring the anti-slavery views of Confederate leaders Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Jeffries also challenges the myth that World War II was the “good war” by exposing how allied forces engaged in what—by the allies’ own standards as applied at the Nuremberg trials—can only be called war crimes, oftentimes with full knowledge and support of top mili‐ tary commanders and leading government officials. Jeffries also discusses how Franklin Roosevelt was so desperate to get popular support for US entry into the war that he ignored intelligence regarding the impending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. This is particularly important since the official versions of the Civil War and World War II are the founding myth of the American empire and its global crusade for democracy and human rights. Pointing out how Lincoln violated civil liberties and the Constitution or how FDR deceived the public about the government’s prior knowledge of, and desire for, Pearl Harbor does not make one “pro-Nazi” or “pro-slavery.” These slurs are used by the war party to avoid debate of the merits of an interventionist for‐ eign policy. I do not agree with all of Jeffries’s conclusions. For example, I am not anti-vaccine. However, I do be‐ lieve the medical profession—as well as Congress and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—has been captured by the pharmaceutical industry and needs to address the many legitimate health risks vac‐ cines instead of silencing and smearing so-called “anti-vaxers.” Government should never force an individ‐ ual to get a vaccine against their will or force a child to be vaccinated against the parent’s wishes. Crimes and Cover-Ups in American Politics is an eye-opening look at the real history of how the politi‐ cal class, aided and abetted by special interests, has betrayed the principles of America’s founding for their own power and gain. I can’t imagine anyone reading this book and not wanting to join the ongoing peace‐ ful revolution to restore individual liberty, free markets, and a foreign policy of peace, friendship, and trade with all.