The Original Skull & Bones Movie on CBS (1970)

Now that more and more people are aware of the secretive Skull & Bones senior year fraternity at Yale University (through such whitewashing films as Robert De Niro’s The Good Shepherd and Rob Cohen’s The Skulls), it’s good to know that the more revealing made-for-TV movie CBS aired back in 1970 called The Brotherhood of the Bell is available on YouTube. (This was actually CBS’s first foray into the new genre of made-for-TV movies.) At that time, I was a junior in high school (and your typical far left New York City Jewish Liberal); to say that this “fictional” movie scared the hell out of me is an understatement. Who would have thought that over 20 years later I would find out (Thank you, 1992 Presidential candidate Bill Clinton!) that not only was the movie not fiction, but nearly 40 years later I would be writing about it in a public electronic forum because I am no longer cowered by this Establishment institution nor the monstrous One World Government it promotes?

UPDATE: Gary North writes:

“Peter Ford, Glenn’s son, told me that his father knew about Bones and believed the movie was on-target. There is a scene that blows the whistle. When Ford is at his friend’s house, the camera scans the walls. There is a Yale pennant.”

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4:30 pm on August 9, 2009