WASHINGTON - Sen. John F. Kerry expounds on many issues in his presidential campaign, but he''s completely silent on one topic: his membership in Skull and Bones, Yale''s infamous secret society.``John Kerry has absolutely nothing to say on that subject. Sorry,'''' said Kerry spokeswoman Kelley Benander. Kerry is a respected senator and a decorated Vietnam War combat veteran, but 36 years after he was initiated into what has been called the ``ultimate old boy network,'''' he''s wary of breaking the ultra-exclusive club''s strict secrecy code.There''s also another high-profile member of the club: President Bush.

John Kerry admits to Skull and Bones Membership on 'Meet The Press' http://www.prisonplanet.com/010104kerryadmits.html
In this video you will hear Senator John Kerry admit, on American National television show Meet The Press, that he is a member of The Secret Society named ''Skull & Bones''.Bonesmen already are buzzing over the prospect of the first Bones vs. Bones presidential race should Kerry win his party''s nomination and face Bush in 2004.``Bones don''t care who wins,'''' said author Alexandra Robbins, whose book ``Secrets of the Tomb'''' pierced the secrecy shrouding the 171-year-old society. ``If Kerry wins, it''s still a Bones presidency.''''Robbins calls the group ``probably the most secretive and successful club in America,'''' and adds, ``It''s also pretty bizarre.''''Every year, 15 Yale juniors are tapped for the club, which holds meetings twice a week in a crypt-like building known as the ``Tomb.''''Robbins described the interior, replete with skulls and skeletons, as a cross between the ``Addams Family'''' and a slightly shabby English men''s club.There are bizarre initiation rites, including a ceremony where new members must spend an evening before a roaring fire in the Tomb recounting details of their sexual history to fellow members.Kerry was tapped for the club in 1968, two years after Bush, whose father and grandfather were also Bonesmen. Kerry''s brother-in-law from his first marriage, David Thorne, was Bones. So was the late husband of Kerry''s current wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry. The Bones alumni roster is flush with CIA officials, business moguls, congressmen and Supreme Court justices. The club owns a secluded 40-acre island retreat on the St. Lawrence River.In 1986, Kerry allegedly tried to recruit Jacob Weisberg, then a college-age intern at ``The New Republic'''' magazine.Weisberg, now Slate magazine editor, said Kerry made his pitch during a private meeting in his Senate office. Weisberg declined, pointedly asking Kerry how he squared his liberalism with membership in such an elitist club that refused to admit women. ``Kerry got sort of flustered and said, `I''ve marched with battered women,'' '''' Weisberg told the Herald.Five years later, Kerry was among those voting to force the club to admit women after a bitter court fight.http://www.propagandamatrix.com/kerry_made_his_bones_in_secret_clubhttp://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=87902004 Skull & Bones Society: A Crash Course on "SELECTION"by: Robert Gaylon Ross, Sr."America''s Secret Establishment", by Antony C. Sutton, 1986, page 5-6, states: "Those on the inside know it as The Order. Others have known it for more than 150 years as Chapter 322 of a German secret society. More formally, for legal purposes, The Order was incorporated as The Russell Trust in 1856. It was also once known as the "Brotherhood of Death". Those who make light of it, or want to make fun of it, call it ''Skull & Bones'', or just plain ''Bones''.The American chapter of this German order was founded in 1833 at Yale University by General William Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft who, in 1876, became Secretary of War in the Grant Administration. Alphonso Taft was the father of William Howard Taft, the only man to be both President and Chief Justice of the United States.The order is not just another Greek letter fraternal socie ty with passwords and handgrips common to most campuses. Chapter 322 is a secret society whose members are sworn to silence. It only exists on the Yale campus (that we know about). It has rules. It has ceremonial rites. It is not at all happy with prying, probing citizens - known among initiates as ''outsiders'' or ''vandals''. Its members always deny membership (or are supposed to deny membership) and in checking hundreds of autobiographical listings for members we found only half a dozen who cited an affiliation with Skull & Bones. The rest were silent. An interesting point is whether the many members in various Administrations or who hold government positions have declared their members in the biographical data supplied for FBI ''background checks''.Above all, The Order is powerful, unbelievably powerful. If the reader will persist and examine the evidence to be presented - which is overwhelming - there is no doubt his view of the world will suddenly come sharply in to focus, with almost frightening clarity.It is a Senior year society which exists only at Yale. Members are chosen in their Junior year and spend only one year on campus, the Senior year, with Skull & Bones. In other words, the organization is oriented to the graduate outside world. The Order meets annually - patriarchies only - on Deer Island in the St. Lawrence River.Senior societies are unique to Yale. There are two other senior societies at Yale, but none elsewhere. Scroll & Key and Wolf''s Head are supposedly competitive societies founded in the mid-19 th century. We believe these to be part of the same network. Rosenbaum commented in his "Esquire" article, very accurately, that anyone in the Eastern Liberal Establishment who is not a member of Skull & Bones is almost certainly a member of either Scroll & Key or Wolf''s Head... The selection procedure for new members of The Order has not changed since 1832. Each year 15, and only 1 5, never fewer, are selected. In the past 150 years about 2500 Yale graduates have been initiated into The Order. At any time about 500-600 are alive and active. Roughly about one- quarter of these take an active role in furthering the objectives of The Order. The others either lose interest or change their minds. They are silent dropouts... The most likely potential member is from a Bones family, who is energetic, resourceful, political and probably an amoral team player. ... Honors and financial rewards are guaranteed by the power of The Order. But the price of these honors and rewards is sacrifice to the common goal, the goal of The Order. Some, perhaps many, have not been willing to pay this price.The Old Line American families and their descendants involved in the Skull & Bones are names such as: Whitney, Perkins, Stimson, Taft, Wadsworth, Gilman, Payne, Davidson, Pillsbury, Sloane, Weyerhaeuser, Harriman, Rockefeller, Lord, Brown, Bundy, Bush and Ph elps.
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Short segment from a Skull and Bones ritualTaken from Ron Rosenbaum''s New York Observer Expose.RealVideo: stream with RealPlayer or download RM file (6.9 mebibytes)60 Minutes:
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