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Claims (23)
James Scollay Whitney member_of
Whitney family host_asserted
“We talked a little bit about that. So let's talk about James Scolet Whitney. And I've got a picture of him. Oops, I thought I had a picture of him. There he goes. There's James Scolet Whitney. He is one of the scions of the Whitney family. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 12:45
William Collins Whitney member_of
Whitney family host_asserted
“Susan's dad's company. And DeMock becomes a director and a large shareholder. Later on, we're going to skip around the timeline here. In 1890, he would join William C. Whitney, William Collins Whitney, who's the star of the show, the brothe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 23:49
Henry Melville Whitney member_of
Whitney family host_asserted
“Last note on him is he was elected a director of the Yale Corporation from 1899 until his death in 1911. Wow. This is just the husband of one of the Whitney's. Starting to see some patterns? Familiar one? Yes. Shall I continue or you just w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 25:02
Whitney family owned
The New Republic host_asserted
“It was founded by some of the Strait family. The son of their founders, Michael Strait, also attended the school. Strait would later attend Cambridge and became a speechwriter to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Wow. And after the war, the publisher …”
▶ The Shadow State 46 Secret Societies 29 The Whitney Lineage @ 1:10:47
Consuelo Vanderbilt member_of
Whitney family host_asserted
“He spent some time and money donating to universities, hospitals, and churches, and then ends up committing suicide at age 51. He marries Alice Claypool Vanderbilt, and they have a bunch of kids, which we'll get to. Here's Consuelo Vanderbi…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 40:31
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney member_of
Whitney family host_asserted
“Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. We have spoken about before when we did Skull and Bones. She marries a Henry Payne Whitney from the Whitney family. Bear with me. I'm jumping around a bit. And, of course, we did basically a whole show on the Wh…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 41:11
Harry Payne Whitney member_of
Whitney family host_asserted
“Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. We have spoken about before when we did Skull and Bones. She marries a Henry Payne Whitney from the Whitney family. Bear with me. I'm jumping around a bit. And, of course, we did basically a whole show on the Wh…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 41:11
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt member_of
Whitney family host_asserted
“a woman named Ellen Tuck French, who's close friends with Gertrude. Let me just give you the details, a quick rehash on Whitney's. All right, Henry Payne Whitney, you're seeing there, was born in 1894. His sister would marry the first baron…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 41:54
Gloria Vanderbilt member_of
Whitney family host_asserted
“He would, interestingly, he was on a Lusitania in 2015 off the coast of Ireland when the German U-boat hit it. And apparently, even though he could not swim, stories are that he died a hero. He gave up his life jacket to save a woman he did…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 46:16
Cortland Dixon Barnes member_of
Whitney family host_asserted
“And he marries, let's see, he was, let's see, he married, what's it say? Oh, his second cousin was John Hay Jock Whitney, back to Warhamster's Whitney family. Colonel, I got to jump in here. What?…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 1:13:01
Harry Payne Whitney member_of
Whitney family host_asserted
“Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, 1917. He became a film producer. He did a film called The Searchers he was known for. You had a Harry Payne Whitney, class of 1894, who became a horse breeder, big polo guy, country club guy. You had a John Hay…”
▶ The Shadow State 36 Secret Societies 20; The Groton School @ 1:17:28
John Hay Whitney member_of
Whitney family host_asserted
“Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, 1917. He became a film producer. He did a film called The Searchers he was known for. You had a Harry Payne Whitney, class of 1894, who became a horse breeder, big polo guy, country club guy. You had a John Hay…”
▶ The Shadow State 36 Secret Societies 20; The Groton School @ 1:17:28
William Payne Whitney member_of
Whitney family host_asserted
“You know, royalty gets to go visit it with royalty. And Whitney was American royalty. You had William Payne Whitney, just a philanthropist. And the last one we're going to close on is a Richard Whitney, class of 1907. He was the president o…”
▶ The Shadow State 36 Secret Societies 20; The Groton School @ 1:17:59
Richard Whitney member_of
Whitney family host_asserted
“You know, royalty gets to go visit it with royalty. And Whitney was American royalty. You had William Payne Whitney, just a philanthropist. And the last one we're going to close on is a Richard Whitney, class of 1907. He was the president o…”
▶ The Shadow State 36 Secret Societies 20; The Groton School @ 1:17:59
Whitney family secretly_owned
Pan American World Airways host_asserted
“And, of course, the Whitney families were the original owners of Pan American Airlines. Oh, so they're into the CIA. You think? I knew you were going to like that one. For the audience, tell people who haven't heard you before, talk about P…”
▶ The Shadow State 20 Secret Societies 4; Skull & Bones 1837-1888 @ 24:13
Whitney family member_of
Citigroup caller_asserted
“yeah going back more than a century the bank's been around a very long time it's been bailed out by the us government on six or seven different occasions mostly for making really bad loans in latin america you've had people like the whitney…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 16 @ 1:23:23
Skull and Bones member_of
Whitney family host_asserted
“It says about 25 to 30 families have come to dominate. You have the old line families from the 1600s and also the new money. That's people like the Whitney's, the Whitworth's, the Bundy's, and the Lord's. The new money are people like the H…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Wrap Up @ 8:48
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr member_of
Whitney family host_asserted
“I got three member of the Webb family and I'm going to finish with the Whitney's. We have talked about the Whitney's. They were one of those original founding fathers of America on founding families. I should say very wealthy old school fam…”
▶ The Shadow State 36 Secret Societies 20; The Groton School @ 1:16:55
Catherine Lansing Barney member_of
Whitney family host_asserted
“So I didn't have Barnes on my scroll and key list, but I see sources that say he is as well. But his, let's say, Catherine Lansing Barney, her mother was a Lorinda Lily Collins Whitney. Yes. But more importantly, her father was Charles Trac…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 1:13:36
Eli Whitney member_of
Whitney family documented
“most prestigious family in American history. And nobody talks about them. I have no idea how they've been able to stay under the radar. One of the most famous Whitney's, of course, is Eli Whitney, who invented the cotton gin, which is what …”
▶ Secret Societies Skull and Bones @ 22:13
William M. Evarts member_of
Whitney family host_asserted
“articles of confederation and the constitution um yeah that's roger sherman and this is one of his direct it's his grandson his efforts so he goes to yale becomes bonesman um what did he do in his career well later on uh he uh represented t…”
▶ The Shadow State 20 Secret Societies 4; Skull & Bones 1837-1888 @ 10:30
George Herbert Walker member_of
Whitney family host_asserted
“Fun little side note. If you look at his picture, you can understand it. I read the books as a kid. Cyrus Vance Jr. Yeah, he's the son of Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State. And he became a Manhattan DA as well. Here's another one. Ho…”
▶ The Shadow State 36 Secret Societies 20; The Groton School @ 1:16:23
Cyrus Vance member_of
Whitney family host_asserted
“Fun little side note. If you look at his picture, you can understand it. I read the books as a kid. Cyrus Vance Jr. Yeah, he's the son of Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State. And he became a Manhattan DA as well. Here's another one. Ho…”
▶ The Shadow State 36 Secret Societies 20; The Groton School @ 1:16:23
Mentions (54)
▶ 8:42
His son, John Shattuck Jr., born 1666, was actually killed by Indians, moved his family to a place called Groton, which is also where one of the prep schools we talked about the Groton School is. Yeah, they were the biggest landowners in Gr…
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really stick together and they have some very, they're placing an amazingly prominent play, you know, roles. And I thought that was a really good example. Yeah. We cannot talk about skull and bones without talking about the Whitney family. …
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most prestigious family in American history. And nobody talks about them. I have no idea how they've been able to stay under the radar. One of the most famous Whitney's, of course, is Eli Whitney, who invented the cotton gin, which is what …
▶ 22:44
That's the Whitney family, but they go back a long ways. Let me give you a quick look at the one I'm going to focus on here is William Collins Whitney, but he is not alone. And this is William Collins Whitney. Good looking guy. Looks like h…
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He was known as a political leader and a financier, ran a lot of the Whitney family businesses. Well, since nobody really knows who the Whitney's are, they probably do know who the businesses are. Anyone on Wall Street knows who J.H. Whitne…
▶ 25:16
Transport, CAT, Air America, and all of the things that came after that, Evergreen, just to name a few of them. But they were all modeled exclusively off of the covert side of Pan Am. Excellent. And this is the Whitney family that founded t…
▶ 48:58
I wouldn't know this, but some people might. There was a luxury furniture company called W&J Sloan, and they catered to families like the Rockefellers, the Whitneys, and the Vanderbilts. So we're talking deep establishment family, William S…
▶ 1:24:19
I'm a pretty good source on it since I worked there for a number of years. But when we've been going through the Skull and Bones series, the kernel that I've been doing, there's a number of Citibank or Citibank of New York, which is the fou…
▶ 1:27:18
They have a noose around our neck thanks to the Federal Reserve, the Rockefeller family, the Whitney family. They all married UK royals, war hamster columns of penny princesses. No, the dollar princesses that brought all the Fabian socialis…
▶ 1:13:01
And he marries, let's see, he was, let's see, he married, what's it say? Oh, his second cousin was John Hay Jock Whitney, back to Warhamster's Whitney family. Colonel, I got to jump in here. What?…
▶ 1:14:32
And the United States. J.P. Morgan got to be the middleman on every single one of it. And that's her father that was the president of the Knickerbocker Trust Company. The panic of 1907 set up everything to do on Jekyll Island. Yep. And he d…
▶ 1:02:55
But state courts are pretty darn important. I've got 10 that were significant. A couple of New York State Supreme Court, a guy by the name of Whitney. I bring up Whitney because the Whitney families are one of the bluest of the Blue Blood f…
▶ 8:17
We've got Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Betty Davis and Catherine Hepburn, Henry and Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas, the actor, the Beach Boys are some of them, Eli Whitney, of course, from the Whitney family, Norman Rockwell, an…
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we cannot talk about skull and bones without talking about the whitney family um i have brought them up before they should be far more famous than they are because this is probably the world hold on hold on sorry sorry um yeah never mind go…
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One of the most famous Whitney's, of course, is Eli Whitney, who invented the cotton gin, which is what you alluded to with the Civil War. When the cotton gin was invented, it made it so they could pick cotton about 50 times or process cott…
▶ 23:06
But he is not alone. And this is William Collins Whitney. Good looking guy. Looks like he's wearing some monocles or something. So let's talk about William Collins. Born in 1841. Lived until 1904. So 63 years of a good life, I suppose. And …
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Since nobody really knows who the Whitney's are, they probably do know who the businesses are. Anyone on Wall Street knows who J.H. Whitney and Company is. It's their big leveraged buyout company. Very prominent in the 80s. But they've been…
▶ 24:13
And, of course, the Whitney families were the original owners of Pan American Airlines. Oh, so they're into the CIA. You think? I knew you were going to like that one. For the audience, tell people who haven't heard you before, talk about P…
▶ 25:41
But they were all modeled exclusively off of the covert side of Pan Am. Excellent. And this is the Whitney family that founded that. You have to make the assumption they kind of knew what was going on. Yeah, I would make the assumption they…
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More money launderers. Kirsten Gillibrand comes from this firm. Jerome Powell, current chairman of the Federal Reserve, comes from this firm. The head of the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation. Former Secretary of the Treasury, Ogden Liv…
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I got three member of the Webb family and I'm going to finish with the Whitney's. We have talked about the Whitney's. They were one of those original founding fathers of America on founding families. I should say very wealthy old school fam…
▶ 8:56
His son, John Shattuck Jr., born 1666, was actually killed by Indians, moved his family to a place called Groton, which is also where one of the prep schools we talked about the Groton School is. Yeah, they were the biggest landowners in Gr…
▶ 0:46
So I'm going to hold my nose at the parts I don't like. Fair enough? Fair enough. All right. What do you want for today? Oh, this is going to be fun. You know, we told the audience that we would be doing like a final skull and bones just to…
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And, you know, we talk about the families that you don't hear about, that you don't see, they don't make the headlines, but they are the real power behind the throne and maybe the throne itself. And this is the Whitney family, which we talk…
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So the Whitney's are the epitome of that. And I want to play a video. Someone else did a pretty good video on that. I'm just going to play it real quick for about two, three minutes. And it'll really give you the overlay of who these people…
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draw its borders, fund its wars, and even sculpt its culture. The Whitney's weren't just rich, they were royalty in everything but name. From William Collins Whitney, a cunning lawyer who transformed street art into a 700 million dollar emp…
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became shorthand for power, privilege, and patronage. But behind the elegant facades and museum wings lies a darker, more elusive truth. One buried beneath layers of political favors, monopolistic deals and whispered scandals, ties to the o…
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it's a labyrinth of secrets welcome to the hidden history of the whitney family where wealth wasn't inherited it was weaponized from new money to old money before silicon valley minted overnight billionaires and wall street carved kings out…
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They weren't plastered on tabloids like the Rockefellers or making reckless headlines like the Vanderbilts. The Whitney's moved differently. They didn't need noise. Their power ran through boardrooms, cultural institutions, and art museums.…
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a racehorse named after a family member. They've become part of the American landscape, woven so seamlessly into its fabric that their presence is felt more than seen. But to understand how they got there, you have to go back, way back. Oka…
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And it's worth it. He's got some pretty good stuff out there. So I'd like to give credit for that. I do watch that channel. And he's one of the people who got me started down this particular rabbit trail. So basically what he's describing i…
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I am going to show you the Whitney family tree. We'll do it from here. This is on wikitree.com. And the first person we're going to get to is James Scolet Whitney. He's born in 1811. So let's go back further than that and see his father. We…
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Mother's maiden name is the middle name. It's what all these old families do over and over again. There's a couple of other interesting names there. The Burgesses were the unknown. There's an Atherton family, which we've heard of. So these …
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Richard Whitney to Richard Whitney again to another Richard Whitney. And we get back here to Josiah Whitney, Josiah Whitney Jr., Stephen Whitney, and then James Scully Whitney. And that gets us into the 1800s. Okay. Looking at another way o…
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That's how we trace the lineage. There's a couple good websites to add to your toolkit. So let's talk about the founding father of the family. Shall we? Oops, that's not what I'm looking for. All right, John Whitney, born in 1592 in England…
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So that's very, very much founding families of America. The town that I'm in, Portsmouth, New Hampshire right now, last year celebrated its 400th anniversary, which means it was here 11 years before Whitney got here. But this is a real old …
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Didn't do anything really notable for the next, say, 140 years besides spread all over the Northeast. They were everywhere. This family was proliferate. What's the word? Proliferate. Proliferate. Yeah, thank you. God, can I buy a vowel? So …
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Yeah, that's definitely more than a handful. Yeah, those are just the ones that I could find. You know, the Whitney family is not really a household name. You know, we know Mount Whitney. And if you're into the arts, you know about the Whit…
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We talked a little bit about that. So let's talk about James Scolet Whitney. And I've got a picture of him. Oops, I thought I had a picture of him. There he goes. There's James Scolet Whitney. He is one of the scions of the Whitney family. …
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Born in South Deerfield, Massachusetts, which was then known as Bloody Brook. His father, Stephen Whitney, was a merchant and a manufacturer. So the family had started to accumulate some money. So, of course, he marries into American nobili…
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Nothing really going on in 1835, right? Militarily? No, nothing at all. In 1838, he would take over his father's manufacturing business and move it to a place called Conway, Massachusetts, and that is where the Whitney family explodes. That…
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It basically operates steamship companies between Boston and New York City. And this is big business. He marries a woman by the name of Lorinda Collins, who, of course, is a descendant of Plymouth Governor William Bradford. Do these guys ev…
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married into the Whitney family, the scandal-free Whitney family that nobody knows about. And there were tons of accusations of corruption that all got swept under the rug. It's a familiar pattern. These are supposed to be the pure and prop…
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Last note on him is he was elected a director of the Yale Corporation from 1899 until his death in 1911. Wow. This is just the husband of one of the Whitney's. Starting to see some patterns? Familiar one? Yes. Shall I continue or do you jus…
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in particular, until the Civil War. War breaks out, and he goes to New York City and gets into the shipping business and becomes an agent of, of course, the Metropolitan Steamship Company, his father's company. He would establish the West E…
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And they played the long game. They planned for dynasty building. Probably better than any family in American history. 1893, he helps form something called Dominion Coal Company with his brother, William Whitney, DeMock, who we just talked …
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It's getting a little incestuous, isn't it? Yes. They also founded something called the New England Gas and Coke Company. That's not Coca-Cola. That's not cocaine. Coke is some kind of a mining ore or something like that. But they did reall…
▶ 9:05
It says about 25 to 30 families have come to dominate. You have the old line families from the 1600s and also the new money. That's people like the Whitney's, the Whitworth's, the Bundy's, and the Lord's. The new money are people like the H…
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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. We have spoken about before when we did Skull and Bones. She marries a Henry Payne Whitney from the Whitney family. Bear with me. I'm jumping around a bit. And, of course, we did basically a whole show on the Wh…
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a woman named Ellen Tuck French, who's close friends with Gertrude. Let me just give you the details, a quick rehash on Whitney's. All right, Henry Payne Whitney, you're seeing there, was born in 1894. His sister would marry the first baron…
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Well, that's one of the oldest families in America. And it goes all the way back to Williams, Collins, Whitney, etc. We talked about them quite a bit. There have been about four or five Whitney's in Skull and Bones. And that's who Gertrude …
▶ 38:49
Isn't he one of our skull and bones guys? Oh, the Whitney family pops up everywhere, doesn't it? Yes, it does. Yeah. When I was listening to this, getting ready for this show, I had to stop right there and listen to that again. I go, did I …
▶ 39:15
about as blue blood in America as it gets. This is old, old money, and they are littered throughout this entire story. Whitney's show up almost every week, some way, shape, or form. That was an interesting one. Sorry, I've got to turn my ph…
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You got to be connected. You got to be part of the club to be an ambassador. And the U.S. ambassador to the U.K. is probably the most important position. So some of the names that have been ambassador to the U.K. that we've talked about bef…