How Rockefeller Covered Up the Mass Slaughter of Children by US Military
the national guard slaughtered dozens of women and children
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During a miners strike in Colorado on April 19 and 20, 1914, the national guard slaughtered dozens of children, and an event deemed so dangerous it was covered up in the media by instructions of John D. Rockefeller.
Among the dead were at least four women and elven children.
The workers went on strike, and they were promptly evicted from the company-owned houses within the small mining town.
They set up large tent colonies just outside one of the town to protest for higher wages and better work qualities, sadly making very little progress.
Just outside the parameters of John D. Rockefeller’s Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, one of the largest tent cities laid their base.
With over 1,200 people, entire families including women and children lived in the tents.
The strikes lasted for months before the massacre took place, but it was known tensions were rising between the strikers and the military.
Then it all came to a head when, one day, the National Guard set up a machine gun on a hill which overlooked the tent city and began firing bullets down on innocent men, women, and children.
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The soldiers then descended on the city, setting fire to the remaining tents, leaving many innocent people to burn alive.
As the news spread of the minors revolt, the minors also began to revolt, going to war with oil companies and mine owners and dismantling railroad tracks to stop exportations.
Ultimately, the Army was contacted to stop the uprising and the protesters went back house or back to work.
However, news of the event was beginning to spread, tarnishing the Rockefellers' credibility and inspiring more demonstrations.
To deal with this issue of public perception, Rockefeller hired public relations pioneer Ivy Lee.
Lee was an early influence of Edward Bernays, who would later compose the infamous book "Propaganda," a book of mind control for autocrats and aristocrats.
Bernays is fittingly called the "father of propaganda."
It is most likely that Rockefeller picked Lee for the task due to the fact that years earlier he developed an idea that would revolutionize how corporations and federal governments interacted with the peasant class.
In 1906, when an awful train accident happened in Atlantic City, Lee recommended that the business provided a declaration providing their side of the story to the press-- this was to be the very first "news release."
The disaster was triggered by carelessness on the part of the railroad company and was experienced by hundreds of individuals, so journalism release was a unique step taken in hopes to get their side of the story out first.
The press release scheme was a huge success and 2 days later in the New York Times just printed the business's statement word for word!
This kind of madness continues to this day where "news" reporters simply regurgitate the declaration from the White House or from Exxon about precisely what they are doing, instead of making any attempt at investigative journalism.
Starting with the Ludlow Massacre, Lee began to change the general public image of the Rockefeller family and their organizations even if it indicated telling outright lies.
Lee sent out mass bulletins claiming that individuals who had been eliminated in the Colorado protests were the victims of a home fire caused by an "reversed range," when in reality those fires were purposefully set by National Guard soldiers.
He also implicated a famous union employee called "Mother Jones" of being a prostitute and running a whorehouse, since she was a vocal activist who was bringing a national spotlight on the occurrence.
On Lee's suggestions, Rockefeller wrote a statement one month after the incident, firmly insisting that "There was no Ludlow massacre."
The engagement started as a desperate attempt to defend life by two little squads of militia against the entire tent nest.
There were no females or children shot by the authorities of the State or agents of the operators.
While this loss of life is profound, it is unfair to blame the defenders of law and property, who remained in no tiniest way responsible for it.
For a short time, Lee and the Rockefellers could manage public perception of the occasion on a national level, although many homeowners of Colorado were already well-aware of the truth behind the massacre.
Ultimately, word spread and triggered outrage across the nation, triggering widespread protests that eventually resulted in a congressional hearing.
As anticipated, the congressional hearing resolved absolutely nothing and brought no justice for the households of the killed children and miners.
To repair the general public picture of the Rockefeller name, Lee recommended that the household make high profile donations to numerous charities and have actual photos taken of them handing out cash to the citizens to make people think that they were good-hearted and generous.
Again the strategy worked, and the application of public relations could reanimate Rockefeller's track record and after that build it to the point where it is today.
Lee was being investigated by Congress for his deal with the Nazis through the business IG Farben and a proxy company called the German Dye Trust.
Likewise, he was a founding member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
The Ludlow massacre belongs of history that is frequently glossed over, and when it is pointed out, it is generally in the background of conversations about unions and labor laws.
While it is true that this was a labor disagreement and a strike, the power dynamic that existed in between the workers, the company and the government is frequently ignored.
