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Claims (28)
John Lindsay met_with
J. Edgar Hoover documented
document
“New York Mayor John Lindsay asked the FBI Director "if it would be possible to total up and fully identify the number of militant Negroes and whites…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.498
Internal Revenue Service spied_on
John Lindsay documented
document
“Do you know what connection he had with any of these organizations that would justify putting his name on the list…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.14
John Lindsay member_of
Webster and Sheffield host_asserted
“And Marianne Harrison is a distant relative of William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison. Good grief. Yeah. So connected. John Lindsay goes to work in 1949 in the private sector for a law firm known as Webster and Sheffield. They were pr…”
▶ The Shadow State 64 The Diplomats @ 16:03
John Lindsay founded
Youth for Eisenhower Club host_asserted
“Of the Youth for Eisenhower Club. Oh, great. And in 1952, he becomes the president of the New York Young Republican Club. Very interesting. Mm-hmm. So you know who's rubbing elbows with people like, you know, the Teddy Roosevelt wing of the…”
▶ The Shadow State 64 The Diplomats @ 17:11
John Lindsay headed
New York Young Republican Club host_asserted
“Of the Youth for Eisenhower Club. Oh, great. And in 1952, he becomes the president of the New York Young Republican Club. Very interesting. Mm-hmm. So you know who's rubbing elbows with people like, you know, the Teddy Roosevelt wing of the…”
▶ The Shadow State 64 The Diplomats @ 17:11
John Lindsay member_of
U.S. Department of Justice host_asserted
“He would join the Department of Justice in 1955 as an assistant to the Attorney General Herbert Brownwell. The executive assistant. That's one of the gatekeepers. Yes. And he worked mostly on civil liberty cases and the Civil Rights Act of …”
▶ The Shadow State 64 The Diplomats @ 17:44
John Lindsay member_of
Republican Party host_asserted
“He wins a Republican primary and is elected to Congress. His district is called the 17th District. It's known as the Silk Stocking District of New York, Upper East Side. Still pretty conservative. While in Congress, he establishes a pretty …”
▶ The Shadow State 64 The Diplomats @ 18:13
John Lindsay member_of
Liberal Party of New York host_asserted
“Yeah, because we know that the CIA was all involved in reading all of that mail. Yeah. Okay, fast forward to 1965. He wins the mayor race of New York mayor as a Republican. And he had the support of what is called the Liberal Party of New Y…”
▶ The Shadow State 64 The Diplomats @ 19:19
John Lindsay member_of
Kerry Commission host_asserted
“and he's not really dealing with it very well. He gets named to a National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders called the Kerner Commission. Remember, there's been a lot of riots in New York that's happening all over the country, Detroit…”
▶ The Shadow State 64 The Diplomats @ 21:28
John Lindsay member_of
Democratic Party host_asserted
“He had been considered as a VP possibility for the Republicans in 1968. Southern conservatives wouldn't have him, so that's how Speer Ragnew got the nod. 1971, Lindsey and his wife cut ties with the Republican Party and registered as Democr…”
▶ The Shadow State 64 The Diplomats @ 26:28
John Lindsay did_business_with
George H.W. Bush documented
“He was very good friends with George Bush. Lindsey headed Bush's presidential campaign in Harris County in 1988. And one of his first and closest aides was Chase Udemeyer, who went on to work in the Reagan-Bush administration and then becam…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 10 @ 19:43
John Lindsay relationship_with
Robert Corson book_quoted
“And Lindsey denied knowing that Corson owned the track next door. The first direct public connection between Corson and Lindsey appeared in 85, when Corson contributed $100 to Lindsey's campaign fund. Corson's mother also contributed. Linds…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 10 @ 39:00
John Lindsay did_business_with
Walter B. Jones Jr. documented
“in whose precinct the road would run, said he opposed it, Echols voted against it, saying that he would follow the practice of the commissioner's court and acquiesce to the wishes of the appropriate commissioner. When Michener found out wha…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 10 @ 23:07
John Lindsay member_of
Skull and Key host_asserted
“Class of 1944. Are you familiar with the name? It seems vaguely familiar, but I don't know why. He was a big mayor of New York City in the 70s, late 60s, early 70s. And as we'll see, he'll go down as one of the worst mayors in American hist…”
▶ The Shadow State 64 The Diplomats @ 13:51
Tony Lindsay married
John Lindsay documented
“Something started happening to Lindsay around the time he was reelected for his third term in 1982. Perhaps it was an inevitable outcome of power corrupts. Perhaps he started believing all of the fawning yes-men around him. And he was a ski…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 10 @ 24:34
Fulbright and Jaworski did_business_with
John Lindsay host_asserted
“Fulbright and Jaworski helped handle a real estate deal in the mid-70s for Herman Beebe, Richard Ross Miller, and Surety Savings. Fulbright and Jaworski represented the campaign of County Judge John Lindsey in an effort to retrieve some int…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book ClubReview @ 46:09
John Hay Whitney did_business_with
John Lindsay host_asserted
“a big supporter of a New York mayor by the name of John Lindsay. Remember these New York mayor names, because we're going to get hit on this more next week. He's a skilled polo player. And of course he raises thoroughbred racehorses and he …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA, and George Bush Part 14 @ 31:46
Robert Corson funded
John Lindsay book_quoted
“who was a close associate of the Crook governor, Edwin Edwards. Lindsey said he doesn't remember Corson's $10,000 donation. He acknowledged that it was a rather large contribution. In September 1986, about two months before the county judge…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 10 @ 41:55
Robert Corson funded
John Lindsay book_quoted
“And Lindsey denied knowing that Corson owned the track next door. The first direct public connection between Corson and Lindsey appeared in 85, when Corson contributed $100 to Lindsey's campaign fund. Corson's mother also contributed. Linds…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 10 @ 39:00
Robert Corson funded
John Lindsay book_quoted
“Then in September, he filed for a change of control application for the savings and loan with the Texas regulators and the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. On December 23rd, the feds gave their approval for the purchase. The approval from the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 10 @ 40:52
Robert Corson relationship_with
John Lindsay book_quoted
“told Houston private investigator P.M. Clinton, who worked for private investigator Clyde Wilson, that Corson claimed to have Lindsey in his back pocket. When Sturdivant wanted to return to his native Tennessee, Corson threatened him by say…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 10 @ 46:52
John Lindsay operated_in
Boston book_quoted
“It was British all along that was manipulating the market both in Canada and the United States, both of which they view still as their colonies, along with organized crime. Meyer Lansky, as well as Joe Bosco, an associate of Al Capone's, an…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 2 @ 40:47
John Lindsay did_business_with
RHJ International documented
“In addition, in 1983, 3D International won upon Lindsay's recommendation a contract to design a new psychiatrics hospital. So he's just wheeling and dealing through all of this. I'm going to kind of skip some of this because all of it goes …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 10 @ 30:57
John Lindsay did_business_with
H.R. Bright documented
“Although the building in the floodplain flew in the face of his philosophy, it had all the right backers. The factors that apparently outweighed his floodplain position, not to mention the endangerment of other people in the local area, wer…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 10 @ 28:25
John Lindsay did_business_with
Bernard Johnson, Inc. documented
“Critics of the new building said that the district would spend more money on services, not buildings, particularly when there were 6,000 empty beds in private hospitals already. In 1977, one year after Bernard Johnson's officers started mak…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 10 @ 30:27
Robert Corson relationship_with
John Lindsay book_quoted
“for taking him to Vegas to see fights, Lindsay just replied, well, I went to see a boxing match out there. I don't think it was with Corson, though. Lindsay conceded that he went on hunting trips to Mexico with Corson, though. Maybe they we…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 10 @ 43:55
Chase Udemeyer worked_for
John Lindsay documented
“He was very good friends with George Bush. Lindsey headed Bush's presidential campaign in Harris County in 1988. And one of his first and closest aides was Chase Udemeyer, who went on to work in the Reagan-Bush administration and then becam…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 10 @ 19:43
John Lindsay member_of
U.S. Navy host_asserted
“Coming out of college right during World War II. And they all joined the military. And then would go their separate ways. This is going to be the last couple of those. But they're important. So he's a Navy gunnery officer. Earned battle sta…”
▶ The Shadow State 64 The Diplomats @ 15:01
Mentions (26)
▶ 42:45
Knight would later be the beneficiary of Michener and President Bush's buddy, a county judge by the name John Lindsay, in a contract for a new jail. Grand announcements were placed in the newspaper, but nothing happened. It appeared that Kh…
▶ 13:15
A line I was saying, David Kennedy at Continental Bank would have preceded him as Secretary of Commerce. And that's important to our story about Continental Bank and all of its shenanigans. It's tied to a lot of Operation Gladio stuff. That…
▶ 13:51
Class of 1944. Are you familiar with the name? It seems vaguely familiar, but I don't know why. He was a big mayor of New York City in the 70s, late 60s, early 70s. And as we'll see, he'll go down as one of the worst mayors in American hist…
▶ 14:25
Hang on a second. So John Lindsay looks like a politician, doesn't he? He does. Born in 1921, of course, in New York City. So his father is a successful lawyer and investment banker. Where do you think he went to high school? St. Paul. He w…
▶ 15:01
Coming out of college right during World War II. And they all joined the military. And then would go their separate ways. This is going to be the last couple of those. But they're important. So he's a Navy gunnery officer. Earned battle sta…
▶ 15:37
He meets his future wife, Marianne Harrison, in 1946 at the wedding of Nancy Walker Bush, who is George H.W.'s sister. What's that? I said, oh, good gosh. That's George H.W.'s sister, Skull and Bones. And they met because, well, he was an u…
▶ 16:03
And Marianne Harrison is a distant relative of William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison. Good grief. Yeah. So connected. John Lindsay goes to work in 1949 in the private sector for a law firm known as Webster and Sheffield. They were pr…
▶ 16:37
It was a guy by the name of Michael McCasey, who was, of course, the U.S. Attorney General from 2007 to 2009 under Obama. And, of course, a woman by the name of Helene Kaplan, who we've run into because she's the chairman of the Carnegie Co…
▶ 17:11
Of the Youth for Eisenhower Club. Oh, great. And in 1952, he becomes the president of the New York Young Republican Club. Very interesting. Mm-hmm. So you know who's rubbing elbows with people like, you know, the Teddy Roosevelt wing of the…
▶ 17:44
He would join the Department of Justice in 1955 as an assistant to the Attorney General Herbert Brownwell. The executive assistant. That's one of the gatekeepers. Yes. And he worked mostly on civil liberty cases and the Civil Rights Act of …
▶ 18:13
He wins a Republican primary and is elected to Congress. His district is called the 17th District. It's known as the Silk Stocking District of New York, Upper East Side. Still pretty conservative. While in Congress, he establishes a pretty …
▶ 18:45
that have been a giant money suck doing things the federal government was never supposed to do. He's the lone Republican dissenter to devote to extending power of the Postmaster General to impound obscene mail. I thought that was interestin…
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Yeah, because we know that the CIA was all involved in reading all of that mail. Yeah. Okay, fast forward to 1965. He wins the mayor race of New York mayor as a Republican. And he had the support of what is called the Liberal Party of New Y…
▶ 19:52
Well, yeah, but he's cozying up with the neocons and now he's running against them. I think that's controlled opposition. I'm not sure that it's even a... You're going to get what you get regardless. Yeah, there is some of that. The false c…
▶ 20:22
He's got bridges being shut down. He goes to the state, lobbies, tell me if this is familiar, lobbies for a municipal income tax and higher water rates and a commuter tax to pay for his programs, right? Right. What New York has done is they…
▶ 20:54
Parents, it led to a lot of tension between blacks and Jews in New York City. Lindsay, of course, sides with the union. This is a Republican, mind you. Yes. New York quality of life is going to hell. Sanitation strike gives you mounds of ga…
▶ 21:28
and he's not really dealing with it very well. He gets named to a National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders called the Kerner Commission. Remember, there's been a lot of riots in New York that's happening all over the country, Detroit…
▶ 22:04
see what's going on on the ground. Of course, he'd always alert the press before he did that, so he made it a publicity tour. Right. The Kerner Report, which came out two years later, had Lindsay's fingerprints all over it. And the quote wa…
▶ 22:38
60s and 70s says hold my beer. The violence in the streets was every bit as bad and probably worse back then. Of course, LBJ completely ignores the reports and the recommendations, so they spent two years doing nothing. About a month later,…
▶ 23:10
and New York City did not see riots after the MLK shooting, and Lindsey's given some credit for that. 69, you get a huge blizzard called the blizzard of 1969, and Lindsey gets criticized for giving favored treatment to Manhattan. There's ac…
▶ 23:42
and this became known as the Lindsay Blizzard, a perfect example of a mayor who's indifferent to the middle class and poor. It was one of his defining moments. Kind of sound familiar? Yeah. He was running for re-election in 1969, and there'…
▶ 24:18
And Lindsey would run on the Liberal Party. He's a Liberal Party candidate, New York Liberal Party. Percocino is the guy who is describing Lindsey, coined the term limousine liberal. This guy is the original limousine liberal is John Lindse…
▶ 24:52
That became the Democrat base in New York. 1970, they have something called the Hard Hat Riot. 200 construction workers mobilized by the AFL-CIO attacked about 1,000 high school and college students who were protesting the Kent State shooti…
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And AFL-CIO was not just mafia run. The CIA had infiltrated it completely. And so they don't like it when people are protesting their wars? Correct. Okay, that makes perfect sense. The police, tell me if this sounds familiar, stood by and d…
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The police labor leaders would accuse Lindsay of undermining the confidence of the public of police. Several thousand construction workers and longshoremen would protest Lindsay, calling him the Red Mayor and a commie rat. 1970, the New Yor…
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He had been considered as a VP possibility for the Republicans in 1968. Southern conservatives wouldn't have him, so that's how Speer Ragnew got the nod. 1971, Lindsey and his wife cut ties with the Republican Party and registered as Democr…