![]() ![]() Skull and Bones has been dominated by about two dozen of the country’s most prominent families-Bush, Bundy, Harriman, Lord, Phelps, Rockefeller, Taft, and Whitney among them-who are encouraged by the society to intermarry so that its power is consolidated. The society screens its candidates carefully, favoring Protestants and, now, white Catholics, with special affection for the children of wealthy East Coast Skull and Bones members. Skull and Bones cultivates its talent by selecting members from the junior class at Yale University, a school known for its strange, Gothic elitism and its rigid devotion to the past. Skull and Bones, in fact, has been running the United States for years. unregulated and all but unknown.” In its quest to create a New World Order that restricts individual freedoms and places ultimate power solely in the hands of a small cult of wealthy, prominent families, Skull and Bones has already succeeded in infiltrating nearly every major research, policy, financial, media, and government institution in the country. The secret society is now, as one historian admonishes, ” ‘an international mafia’. And the group’s influence is only increasing-the 2004 presidential election might showcase the first time each ticket has been led by a Bonesman. This tiny club has set up networks that have thrust three members into the most powerful political position in the world. Skull and Bones has curled its tentacles into every corner of American society. They worshiped the goddess Eulogia, celebrated pirates, and plotted an underground conspiracy to dominate the world. They adopted the numerological symbol 322 because their group was the second chapter of the German organization and founded in 1832. The men called their organization the Brotherhood of Death, or, more informally, the Order of Skull and Bones. Yale’s secret society exposed SeptemJournalist and author Alexandra Robbins discusses her book “Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power” with “Today’s” Ann Curry. Incensed, Russell rounded up a group of the most promising students in his class-including Alphonso Taft, the future secretary of war, attorney general, minister to Austria, ambassador to Russia, and father of future president William Howard Taft-and out of vengeance constructed the most powerful secret society the United States has ever known. When Russell returned to the United States, he found an atmosphere so Anti-Masonic that even his beloved Phi Beta Kappa, the honor society, had been unceremoniously stripped of its secrecy. Russell soon became caught up in this group, itself a sinister outgrowth of the notorious eighteenth-century society the Illuminati. While in Germany, Russell befriended the leader of an insidious German secret society that hailed the death’s head as its logo. Russell would later become a member of the Connecticut state legislature, a general in the Connecticut National Guard, and the founder of the Collegiate and Commercial Institute in New Haven. Russell came from an inordinately wealthy family that ran one of America’s most despicable business organizations of the nineteenth century: Russell and Company, an opium empire. Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power by Alexandra Robbins THE LEGEND OF SKULL AND BONES Sometime in the early 1830s, a Yale student named William H.Russell-the future valedictorian of the class of 1833- traveled toGermany to study for a year. Read an excerpt from her book ‘The Secrets of the Tomb’ below. Journalist Alexandra Robbins, herself a member of another of Yale’s secret societies, interviewed more than a hundred Bonesmen and writes about the rituals that make up the organization. ![]() ![]() Yale’s super-elite Skull and Bones, a 200-year-old organization whose roster is stocked with some of the country’s most prominent families: Bush, Harriman, Phelps, Rockefeller, Taft, and Whitney. 4 - Inside a cold, foreboding structure of brown sandstone in New Haven, Conn., lives one of the most heavily shrouded secret societies in American history. Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power THE TODAY SHOW Sept. ![]()
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