Fred Korth person
also: Fred Korth, K-O-R-T-H, Fred Karth, Korth
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Claims (10)
Harry S. Truman appointed
Fred Korth host_asserted
“In 1952, Truman appointed Korth, K-O-R-T-H, as Assistant Secretary of the Army.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 45:46
Fred Korth member_of
Bell Aerospace host_asserted
“he becomes a director on the board at Bell Aerospace Corporation, which is also in Fort Worth, Texas…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 48:07
Fred Korth headed
Continental National Bank host_asserted
“Korth was a former president of Continental Bank, which had loaned General Dynamics considerable money.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 57:45
John F. Kennedy appointed
Fred Korth host_asserted
“So Connolly left the job in 62. JFK now appointed Korth, the guy we're talking about, as secretary of the Navy.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 56:51
Fred Korth succeeded
John Connally host_asserted
“So Connolly left the job in 62. JFK now appointed Korth, the guy we're talking about, as secretary of the Navy.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 56:51
Fred Korth member_of
Suite 8F Group host_asserted
“Fred Karth, the guy we're talking about, who was running Continental National Bank and became Navy Secretary.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 50:34
John L. McClellan removed_from_power
Fred Korth documented
“In October 1963, Korth is forced to resign from his job in the government as a result of the congressional investigation.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:00:37
Lyndon B. Johnson installed
Fred Korth host_asserted
“Korth not only got the job after strong lobbying from LBJ, a few weeks after taking the post, Korth overruled top Navy officers that had proposed the X-22 contract be given to Douglas Aircraft.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 57:19
Fred Korth overbilled_or_diverted
Bell Aerospace host_asserted
“Instead, he insisted it be granted to Bell Corporation, which of course is in Texas as well.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 57:19
Fred Korth installed
Lyndon B. Johnson host_asserted
“He's a member of the Democrat Party. He worked with John Conley to get LBJ.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 45:18
Mentions (15)
▶ 45:18
One of the guys in this story is a guy by the name of Fred Korth, K-O-R-T-H. He's also from Texas, and he was in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He's a member of the Democrat Party. He worked with John Conley to get LBJ.…
▶ 45:46
elected in 1948, so he was part of the cheat. In 1952, Truman appointed Korth, K-O-R-T-H, as Assistant Secretary of the Army. He worked under Frank Pace. Now, Frank Pace, just so that you know, was a big deal. He ends up being like an assis…
▶ 47:38
because he's very important to this story. That's Frank Pace. Okay, so this guy that we're talking about, Korth's boss is Frank Pace. So keep that in mind. Both men left office at the federal level in 1953. Pace becomes the CEO of General D…
▶ 48:07
law practice, but he becomes a director on the board at Bell Aerospace Corporation, which is also in Fort Worth, Texas, and it's also a huge big military industrial complex company. The chairman of the company, Lawrence Bell, was a fellow m…
▶ 50:34
Earl Smith of U.S. Sugar Corporation. Fred Karth, the guy we're talking about, who was running Continental National Bank and became Navy Secretary. Ross Sterling, Humble Oil, which had both people in it. Sid Richardson, Texas oil millionair…
▶ 54:24
Hold on. Okay, Fred Korth. He's involved in all of this, right? So, in the last few months of the administration of Dwight Eisenhower, the Air Force began to argue that it needed the successor to the F-105 tactical fighter, which became kno…
▶ 56:51
John Connolly, the guy that was the governor of Texas who was with JFK when he's assassinated. So Connolly left the job in 62. JFK now appointed Korth, the guy we're talking about, as secretary of the Navy. So that's the reason why they mad…
▶ 57:19
Texas. And this is, I've watched this happen. This is literally how it happens. Korth not only got the job after strong lobbying from LBJ, a few weeks after taking the post, Korth overruled top Navy officers that had proposed the X-22 contr…
▶ 57:45
This created controversy as Korth had been a former director of the company. Korth also became involved in discussions of the TFK contract between Boeing and General Dynamics. Korth was a former president of Continental Bank, which had loan…
▶ 58:11
that because of his particular position, he had deliberately refrained from taking a direct hand in the decision until the last possible moment. Well, as it's pointed out, the last possible moment means that the three times that it had came…
▶ 1:00:08
continued looking into the activities of Billy Estes and Bobby Baker. During the investigation, it emerged that LBJ had been involved in political corruption. This included the award of the $7 billion contract to General Dynamics. And when …
▶ 1:00:37
In October 1963, Korth is forced to resign from his job in the government as a result of the congressional investigation. So, it is later said that on 22 November 1963, a friend of Baker's, Bobby Baker, by the name of Don Reynolds, told a m…
▶ 1:01:39
doesn't even resume until like five years later. Now, here's what's really weird, as if none of that was not weird enough. After resigning from the Secretary of Navy's job, Korth worked as a lawyer. He stayed in Washington because I read hi…
▶ 1:02:08
He basically left them. He never divorced. She later got a divorce, but he didn't want a divorce. People around him speculated that he wanted to be estranged from them because he's now a threat. So he stays in Washington. He gets elected to…
▶ 1:02:35
But he basically does his job from Washington. And then later in 1969, his daughter, who is very young, a beauty, she won like a million beauty pageants, is murdered and it's ruled suicide. She was shot in the middle of the day in her home …