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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 11 Num. 39
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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BLINDED BY THE NORMAL BUT NOT IN A FORD
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By "The Anonymous Author"
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My grandfather Chris toiled in the cornfields of Nebraska as a
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low paid farm hand in the early 1900s. A friend of his heard
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about a job as a manager of a livery stable in a small town
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called Pierce, Nebraska (population 2,000) and he immediately
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applied and was hired. Chris never met the owner of the livery
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stable because he was told the proprietor operated over 100
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stables in the Midwest and West. My grandfather only
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communicated with a regional manager.
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I spent all my summer vacations as a child in Pierce and listened
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to my grandfather's history of how he became a Ford Dealer. One
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day while working as the manager of the livery stable two black
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Ford Model T cars were delivered without his previous knowledge.
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My grandfather was told by the regional manager to sell the cars
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and his commission would be $25.00. Chris not only sold the two
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Model T's but also took orders for 10 additional cars. About a
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month later a wagon was sent to the livery stable to remove all
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the horse related equipment and then five more cars were
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delivered.
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To my grandfather's amazement he was offered a dealership
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agreement allowing him to be basically self-employed. Profits
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from his Ford Dealership allowed him to buy land and Chris has
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the distinction of earning, losing (The Depression years) and
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earning again over a million dollars. My grandfather did not
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have a show room full of cars but he would keep a filing system
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in his head of farmers who bought cars and trucks from him. When
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a farmer had owned a car for three years my grandfather would
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drive out to the farm with a new car or truck and sell them a new
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car on their property. Chris would then sell the trade-in cars
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to persons in the city or on farms that had financial problems.
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My grandfather sold cars in this manner with the filing system in
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head for over 55 years.
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In the late 1940s a know-it-all Ford manager came into town and
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insisted that Chris receive 15 cars that month. My grandfather
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had no place to store the cars because he had no show room and
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this really confounded the "hot-whiz-kid" city slicker Ford
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manager. The manager and Chris went to a bar that was owned by
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my grandfather. After belting a few beers the 61-year-old Chris
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made a final ditch try not to take the 15 cars by challenging the
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young 20 something manager to a foot race to the dealership
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office - about 150 yards down the main street of town. If my
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grandfather won he did not have to take the 15 cars that month.
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Most of the town showed up for the race and after my grandfather
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beat the tubby snit by 2 lengths he said to the manager - "Lee
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Iaococa" (the father of the Ford Mustang and former CEO of
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Chrysler) "I'm not taking those cars this month."
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The Ford Dealership provided Chris a fantastic life but when he
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died he still did not know how nor why he became a Ford Dealer.
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His grandson (me) discovered the how and why through a weird set
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of circumstances.
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Jesse James III related to the mutual friend of Linda Goodman and
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me the business relationship of Jesse James and Henry Ford. [1]
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When the mutual friend was half-way through telling me this piece
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of history, I was absolutely astounded and almost began to cry
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and laugh because I heard a piece of this story all of my
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childhood and all the questions that puzzled my grandfather to
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his grave were being answered.
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Henry Ford was driven out of business once by bankers who
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insisted on naming a board of directors to oversee the growing
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auto giant but Ford refused to give into their demands. Ford was
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operating his second enterprise and the bankers still wanted
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control but he did not budge. Therefore, Ford found himself with
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all his loans called in, no capital to pay costs and wages. Ford
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had some stock of cars but no capital to market the vehicles.
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Jesse heard through the grapevine of Henry's problem and proposed
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a meeting in Eastern Nebraska. Jesse was the silent owner of my
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grandfather's livery stable and hundreds more.
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Mr. James requested that Mr. Ford deliver two Model T's to each
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of his livery stables and the sales would give him the needed
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capital to survive the strangle hold of the bankers. The scheme
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worked far better than expected. However, after World War II
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enough pressure was placed on Ford by various government
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agencies, bankers and politicians that Ford's sons and/or the
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company basically turned control of the Ford Motor Company over
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to Robert McNamara (former Secretary of Defense and President of
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the World Bank and member of the Trilateral Commission) and his
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successors.
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During the past 250 years members of the human race can go with
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the flow of society's expectations or break from normal
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educational, religious, 8 to 5 routine. Jesse James, Henry Ford,
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Linda Goodman, and my grandfather Chris broke from the routine.
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Last year I attended a three day 25 year high school reunion.
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During the last day numerous persons stated to me that if we
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lined up 20 persons to tell their life experiences, I have lived
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and done more than those 20 persons combined. I obviously also
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broke from the routine.
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When pigs, cows or horses are allowed to roam free on the range
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without any restrictions by humans, their meat is too tough to
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eat by humans and their intelligence based upon their experiences
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on the range make catching them very difficult. How can a
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domesticated pig, cow or horse relate to a free wide ranging
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animal of the same species?
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How can a domesticated human that has grown up in the suburbs,
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attended regular church, did the normal education routine, and
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who works 8 to 5 and is brainwashed by television, relate or
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believe that Jesse James saved Henry Ford's ass by selling two
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Model T's in each of his livery stables or that the opium hound
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Mary Todd popped her hero, icon hubby with her pearl handled
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derringer? For me the fantastic Jesse James biography detailed
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by Del Schrader is reality because I have LIVED the fantastic.
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Those who have not lived or been exposed to the fantastic believe
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the fantastic only exists on Hollywood production sets. We live
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in the most interesting, fantastic and compelling times yet most
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persons are experiencing this era asleep with their eyes wide
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open.
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If you have lived and cherished the normal routine be prepared
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for the reality of lives of persons who do not accept the normal
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routine. Some persons find the book detailing the life of Jesse
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James by Del Schrader impossible and unbelievable. The book is
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impossible and unbelievable for persons blinded by the normal
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routine and perspective - will that change if you buy a Ford?
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Probably not.
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If you feel and think the James / Ford realities are hard to
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swallow by domesticated and brainwashed humans, wait till they
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get a load of the saga involving Jesse James, Howard Hughes Sr.
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(88) and his son's Howard, Robard, Charles and David (yes count
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them - that's one, two, three, four). There is more because all
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of the brothers HAD to become one public yet shadow "88
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Jr".........
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The Anonymous Author
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---------------------------<< Notes >>---------------------------
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[1] From *Jesse James Was One Of His Names* by Del Schrader, with
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Jesse James III. Arcadia, California: Santa Anita Press, 1975.
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 74-33962:
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Old Jesse [James] was one of Henry Ford's original backers
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and many of Jesse's livery stables became early Ford
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automobile dealerships. Jesse III [grandson of Jesse
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James] says, "On at least two occasions I was present when
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Grandpa and the auto magnate got together in the 1920s.
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Jesse III particularly recalls the 1928 meeting. "It took
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place in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, at the cafe and hotel owned
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by Albert Brown. Grandpa always called Mr. Ford "Henry"
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and Mr. Ford always called him "Colonel" or "Jesse." Yes,
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Henry Ford knew Grandpa was Jesse James and never let the
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cat out of the bag. The automaker complained that his wife
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didn't like the idea of him "hobnobbing with outlaws" so
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Jesse James became Jack Halbrook to Mr. Ford.
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For related stories, visit:
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http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html
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http://feustel.mixi.net
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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