KEITH OLBERMANN, HOST: There seems to be no middle ground about this organization. She talked to MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann about the organization. This raises the question- how exactly is the Bush bone connected to the Kerry bone?Īlexandra Robbins, author of “Secrets of the Tombs: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power.” She‘s also a Yale alum, and, in the interest of full disclosure, a member of another Yale secret society. One a Democrat, one a Republican, miles apart on the issues-but both rooted in the same secret Yale society. Both Bush and Kerry refused to answer ‘Meet the Press’ host Tim Russert when asked about the organization. So we have an all-secret-society presidential election, not that either of them are talking about it. And if this needs to be weirder for you, his wife Teresa Kerry‘s first husband, John Heinz, his father was ‘Skull and Bones.’ Buckley Averell Harriman, long-time governor of New York.Īnd then there are the presidents: William Howard Taft, whose father, Alphonso, had helped found the group and whose son Robert was a senator George Herbert Walker Bush, whose father, Prescott, was a Bonesman and a senator the current President Bush, although his kid at Yale has not been tapped for Skull and Bones-even though they do admit women now. There are a lot of Bonesmen who did not talk, but did succeed, Henry Luce, who created “TIME” magazine and all its cousins Harold Stanley, founder of Morgan Stanley Henry Lewis Stimson, the secretary of war under FDR and Truman William F. Talking about ‘Skull and Bones’ is for others. Once you‘re in, you‘re in: ‘Skull and Bones’ is for life. New members, the neophytes, are expected to do things like lie in coffins, wrestle in mud, kiss a skull, and confess their sexual histories in front of the group to bond themselves together further or presumably just for a few laughs. Members of ‘Skull and Bones’ gather on High Street in the Yale campus at the tomb. Founder William Huntington Russell thought of his little enclave as sort of anti-Masons and as a home for the wealthy and the powerful and the people who would do anything for another Bonesman.Įach year, 15 young undergraduate seniors are tapped for membership, initiated in controversial, murky fashion. It was in fact a reaction to a secret society, the Masons, then much more influential than they are today. The Ivy League school, which is not affiliated with the society, did not return a reporter's call.‘Skull and Bones’ dates to 1832. Efforts to reach a society member or a representative of its business arm, the Russell Trust Association, through a Yale spokesman were unsuccessful. On Tuesday, the society's secrecy remained intact. Bonesmen swear an oath of secrecy about the group and its strange rituals, which include initiation rites such as confessing sexual secrets and kissing a skull. Skull and Bones invites 15 Yale seniors to join each year. chief justice in 1874 and William Maxwell Evarts, who served as U.S. It contains the names and photographs of about 50 Bonesmen, including Taft, who became the 27th president of the United States Morrison Remick Waite, who became U.S. The skull is being sold with a black book, inscribed with Owen's name, the year 1872 and the numeral 322, a reference to the society's year of inception and to the death of the orator Demosthenes in 322 B.C. I think it will generate interest for people who are former Bonesmen, people who collect Americana, people who are interested in history." "It's an intriguing story tied to America, tied to Yale. "I think it's a macabre artifact," Margot Rosenberg, head of Christie's American decorative arts department, said Tuesday. John Kerry, businessman and diplomat Averell Harriman, publisher Henry Luce and author and commentator William F. Publicly known members, known as Bonesmen, include President William Howard Taft, both presidents Bush, Massachusetts Sen. Prior to that time, the group published an annual roster. Skull and Bones, an elite society founded in 1832, has closely guarded its members' names and its activities since the early 1970s. The auction house said it also may have been displayed at the society's tomblike headquarters on Yale's campus in New Haven, Conn., during the late 1800s. The skull is fitted with a hinged flap and is believed to have been used during voting at the famous society's meetings.
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