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Yale's most notorious secret society,
Skull and Bones, counts among its members
both Presidents Bush, President Taft,
William F. Buckley, Henry Luce, Senator
John Kerry, and other such types. Literary
journalist Ron Rosenbaum—who has been
one of the most dogged investigators of
the S&B—led a team who secretly
filmed one of the shadowy club's
initiation ceremonies on 14 April 2001.
Not only is this the first and only
footage of an S&B ritual, it's also
the first one ever to be witnessed by
outsiders. [Rosenbaum writes about it here.]
A
current Bonesman later tried to discredit
the tape, telling Alexandra
Robbins—author of Secrets of the Tomb—that
they staged the 3-hour initiation to fool
Rosenbaum. "We just wanted to fuck
with that prick," said this jewel of
the Eastern Establishment. Right away, the
veracity of such an obvious attempt at
spin-doctoring is open to question, and
this Bonesman may have a little trouble
explaining, given his version of events,
why the videotaped ritual was almost
exactly the same as the ritual from the
prior year, which Rosenbaum had secretly
audiotaped. [Read more about this here.]
The
clip above was part of a story ABC News
aired on the footage. The video of the
entire story was on the Web for quite a
while, but it has recently been removed.
Above is the heart of the report—the
actual footage of the Bonesmen.
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