https://archive.org/details/jfk-to-9-11-everything-is-a-rich-mans-trick-4
JFK to 9 11: Everything Is A Rich Man's Trick is a popular, or alternate, history of some significant components of the 20th Century.
The narrative begins with the USA Robber Barons of the late 19th Century describing a carving up of USA industry between cooperating and competing families. The formation of the Federal Reserve and the establishment of the Income Tax get no coverage, and WWI also gets little mention. The story then focuses on USA and European industrial support for the National Socialist forces in German under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. These points are based on well established history, though perhaps overemphasized in places. A failing of the documentary in this early section is repeated mention of "The Illuminati" without defining what is meant by this group.
The documentary points towards a loose and coordinated coalition of European royal houses, European investment bankers and their counterparts in families and investment bankers in the USA. Specific names and dates are related to allow a viewer to follow up on points being made. The Dulles brother's roles in the Treaty of Versailles and later as head of the CIA and Secretary of State receive mention. Major General Smedley Butler of the US Marine Corp is mentioned as exposing a fascist plot to attempt to implement a military coup d'etat in the USA during the 1930's. Following the defeat of Nazi Germany, brief mention is made of Gehlen, the Nazi counter-intelligence leader and his then continued role in post war Germany. Operation Paperclip, the project to transfer German rocket engineers to the USA, is also mentioned.
The documentary then moves to focus on the assassination of JFK. The web of connections between USA Mafia bosses and the CIA is examined. The highly profitable international drugs trade facilitated by the CIA is also highlighted. The film focuses on Afghanistan/Pakistan and fails to mention to the Golden Triangle used by the CIA during the Vietnam war. Then, an exorbitant amount of effort is placed into documenting the research performed by independent researchers into the JFK assassination.
Following this temporally dominant component of the documentary it fails to engage the other topic in its title, that of the 9/11 events. The latter part of the documentary descends into generalizations attempting to form some unified theme which connects the documentary. It provides advice for persons to resist the players its has identified as running national and international institutions of power.
The documentary provides a useful introduction to some elements of the networks of power which cross the USA and European spheres from the late 19th Century to the late 20th. Some important elements are given only brief mention or entirely omitted. An example of omission would be the breaking of the Japanese diplomatic cypher, the "purple code", which provided the USA with advanced warning of the attack on Pearl Harbor which generated the outrage necessary to involve the USA officially in WWII.
The documentary's focus on the JFK assassination is appropriate; its in the title. This dedication does minimize its ability to examine other topics. The documentary fails totally to justify the term "9/11" in its title. It implies that World Trade Center buildings 1 and 2 were loaded with explosives for demolition in a single day, which is ludicrous. The buildings were demolished with explosives, but you can't load the buildings in a single day.
I give the documentary a middling score. It raises some well documented and important facts, though glances over others which could have added to its narrative. The work on the JFK assassination is its strength. Sadly, it does not consider the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. which I consider a related assassination. The last phase of the film is full of generalizations and lack of detail. It loses it way. Nonetheless, it does achieve many of its objectives, notably the relationship between many influential USA families, the decedents of the Robber Barons, and Nazism. Similarly, the JFK assassination was a complete cock up by a combination of the CIA and its Mafia partners on behalf of a ruling class that were threatened with losing exorbitant profits if JFK smashed the CIA into a thousand pieces and ended the Vietnam and Cold Wars. The film succeeds in documenting these narratives.
