An often overlooked aspect of John F. 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 then loan it to the government at interest. He moved in this area on June 4, 1963, by signing Executive Order 11110 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.

JFK was assassinated Sept. 1963.
Not a coincidence.

I’m well aware of that order but agree with G. Edward Griffin…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFstll4VomA

JFK was assassinated in November.

I have not watched the following video but it appears to be the source of the short clip I provided above…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q5TNrVogz8

Now I’ve watched that video and Griffin did not disappoint.

Matthew, you are perfectly correct that JFK was killed November, 1963. I was teaching P at Oxford University at that time (physics tutor) and recalled a discussion I had with a student who told me about JFK’s death. I recalled the weather, warm enough to be walking outside without a jacket, but not the date, which was November 22. I knew it was in Michaelmas term, and mistakenly assumed early in the term – I was wrong.
G. Edward Griffin, obviously had not heard of Executive order 11110,
http://www.ecclesia.org/forum/uploads/bondservant/jfkP.pdf
I remember being worried at the time because I was not planning to return to the US to visit until the summer of 1964, and I had much of my money in dollar bills at my then home in Oxford. I was worried that we would be given only a limited time to change them to the new currency. (I was expecting the change Jan 1, 1964)
Although G. Edward Griffin is about my age, since he only wrote Creature from Jekyll Island in the mid-nineties, I suspect he did not have as much interest in the Fed back in 1963 as I did, and simply had no reason to look for an Executive Order.

I thought I remembered the notes starting to be changed….I was right.
The new notes were “silver certificates”

.O. 11110 was never reversed by President Lyndon B. Johnson and the section added to E.O. 10289 remained on the books until President Ronald Reagan issued Executive Order 12608 on September 9, 1987 as part of a general clean-up of executive orders. E.O. 12608 specifically revoked the section added by E.O. 11110 which effectively revoked the entire Order. By this time, however, the remaining legislative authority behind E.O. 11110 had been repealed by Congress when Pub.L. 97-258 was passed in 1982.
In March 1964, Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon halted redemption of silver certificates for silver dollars. In the 1970s, large numbers of the remaining silver dollars in the mint vaults were sold to the collecting public for collector value. All redemption in silver ceased on June 24, 1968.

(I remember at the time expecting to need to change my stash of dollars. Maybe I was in error with that expectation.) There was talk at the time of the Federal Reserve losing its powers, even if President Kennedy did not give a speech about it.
I did not particularly like JFK, as I have always been on the extreme right wing of politics. I did not get the impression he was that socialist though, but then I was in England during his Presidency.
But then I did not like Ike either….I never understood why he stopped short of Berlin.

I can’t say when Griffin looked into the EO but it doesn’t matter. His conclusions about it, and Kennedy, are accurate. He’s not the only one who’s looked into it.
He’s been on the ball for a long time and was 63 when Creature was published.

‘The Fearful Master: A Second Look at the United Nations’ was published in 1964.

Bill Still is probably still spreading that myth along with his many other falsehoods.

I agree that the LSE is Marxist in its extremism. While Kennedy was liberal, he was NOT socialist left.
His politics were to the right of most current Republicans.
Sorry, but it was JFK’s intention to eliminate the Fed.
I remember the discussion at the time and supported his policy.

(it is often what you don’t know you don’t know that is the problem.)

You are correct, it is often what you don’t know you don’t know that is the problem.
Kennedy was absolutely a socialist.

He was a modern liberal which means he was hardly liberal in the original or classical sense.

“The principles of classical liberalism are being assaulted daily, not only in our universities, public schools, news media, television programming, movies, books and novels, but also by a whole generation of professionals in private society who were convinced of the desirability of egalitarian collectivism during the 60s and even more so today. Most shockingly, this also includes our churches. The foundation upon which Western civilization was built was religion, and hence it has been one of the main targets of the modern liberal-leftist.”
Managed truth: The great danger to our republic
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3263007/

“The man that Kennedy wanted to study under was known as Britain’s most influential spokesman for socialism.”
https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/26121-kennedy-was-no-conservative

IMatthew, I know I’m getting forgetful at times. Every year the memory seems to get worse, so forgive me if I make the errors of senility.
It’s funny how some memories seem totally precise from eons ago, while some from recently are fuzzy. I know it is harder to memorize poetry and stuff that seemed trivial to remember when I was young.
The only trick I have learned over the years is to try to fit everything into a big picture context, so that there are many cross-correlations to support memories.

“For example, when we say the United States has the best medical care system in the world, the leftists retort, “but everyone knows we have the highest infant mortality rate of any industrialized nation.” To refute this “fact” makes one an obvious idiot and a fool. This social pressure keeps most from challenging “accepted truths.” The liberals take full advantage of this social pressure in all spheres of life to keep the silent majority silent.”

Is a quote from your cite, Matthew.

As you know, I do not tend to be silent. I could hardly be called “always politically correct”.
I see nothing wrong with stating the U.S. has the best healthcare system, even though it has a high infant mortality.

It simply means that my gauge for measuring quality differs from one that places a higher value on infant survival.
Is there a universally accepted gauge for measuring healthcare quality ?