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The KGC: An American Conspiracy Part 1

The KGC: An American Conspiracy Part 1

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America in the mid-nineteenth century was still a very young
nation in the process of finding its own identity, its states not
yet fully or harmoniously united. Differing ideas on what methods
of production and government its inhabitants should employ were
fomenting into a house divided and would lead to one of the
bloodiest and devastating civil wars any country could
experience. Leading up to America's Civil War, various factions
were coalescing into numerous political parties and regional
movements, with ideological lines drawn largely on the issue of
slavery. The struggle for America's southern states'
self-determination gave rise to a secret society known as the
Knights of the Golden Circle, whose members were determined to
gain power, wealth and influence for their cause either within
the Union, or if necessary as their own autonomous territory. The
birth of the United States as a nation would indeed be a painful
and traumatic experience, the pangs of which would be felt and
remembered to this day, and the hopes for the rise of the South
kept alive perhaps more than the average American knows.

Tonight's Quote:

“No matter what secrets may be given to me by a 57, if given as
the secret of a 57 and because I am one, I will hold the same
sacredly in my own knowledge, and never re-communicate it, even
to a 57, unless authorized so to do by the brother whose secret
it is.”

KGC Initiation rites for their 3rd degree, within which
membership was kept from all other members of the organization.
(Published anonymously in 1861)

Show Links:

We've found that some sites are not showing these links as
clickable unless they are URL's, so until those outlets improve
their show notes section, we are providing actual URL's next to
the clickable description of each link to make things easier for
our listeners!

Knights of the Golden Circle on Wikipedia http://bit.ly/1NjC5aa
Article on the KGC from the Texas State Historical Association
http://bit.ly/1XjMJNt "An Authentic Exposition of the Knights of
the Golden Circle" by a Member of the Order http://bit.ly/1OaGZ8m
Report of the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army on
the Order of American Knights, from 1864 http://bit.ly/1kP9A87
"Solving Lincoln's Assassination" - a blog posting by Steven
Hager http://bit.ly/1ScpjbM Albert Pike, Freemasonry and the KGC
http://bit.ly/21c7zTJ Albert Pike http://bit.ly/1QCVbIJ Clement
Vallandigham http://bit.ly/1PIYQ7K Robert Rhett
http://bit.ly/1I9xO1r John A. Quitman http://bit.ly/1jf5rIL
Benjamin McCulloch http://bit.ly/1NKI81Y William Walker
http://bit.ly/1PUzDFS Copperhead political faction
http://bit.ly/1QZ59U9 The Young America political movement
http://bit.ly/1HheKUa The Fire-Eaters political faction
http://bit.ly/1P1GQW5

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Credits:

Episode 027 - "Knights of the Golden Circle" Produced by Scott
Philbrook & Forrest Burgess; Ryan McCullough Sound Design;
Research Assistance by Tess Pfeifle. Copyright Scott Philbrook
& Forrest Burgess 2015, All Rights Reserved.