Episode 316 – The Unauthorized Biography of David Rockefeller – The Corbett Report

David Rockefeller is dead. But what does it mean? How do we measure the life of someone who has shaped the modern world to such an extent? Join us for this week's edition of The Corbett Report where we examine David Rockefeller's life, his works and the world that he left in his wake.

TRANSCRIPT. David Rockefeller, last surviving grandson of oiligarch John D. Rockefeller, is dead. We are told he died in his sleep at the age of 101 this past Monday, and with him the third generation of the infamous Rockefeller dynasty is at an end.

The speaker, Vice President Dick Cheney, takes a question from David Rockefeller.

Prominent among the organization sponsoring the Miami event were the Council of the Americas, founder and honorary chairman: David Rockefeller; the Americas society, chairman: David Rockefeller; the Forum of the Americas, founder: David Rockefeller; the Institute for International Economics, financial backer and board member: David Rockefeller; the Trilateral Commission, founder and honorary chairman: David Rockefeller.

Growing up in the household of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., steward of the family fortune and controller of the infamous Rockefeller Foundation, David and his brothers knew from the earliest age that they would be decision makers nearly without parallel in human history, capable of shaping events not only at home, but all around the world.

The Rockefeller clan has never been exactly "Normal." Not since William Avery Rockefeller, John D.'s father, abandoned the Rockefeller name altogether to take on the persona of "Dr. Bill Levingston, Celebrated Cancer Specialist." The name was a ruse, of course, like everything else about William Rockefeller.

Even there, writing of the death of his own grandfather some 65 years later, David Rockefeller couldn't resist making the moment about himself and his own rightful place as successor to his grandfather's throne.

To the surprise of no one, least of all David himself, the University of Chicago Press dutifully published its founder's grandson's thesis on "Unused Resources and Economic Waste" and the young heir to the Rockefeller throne was then given a position as a secretary in New York Mayor LaGuardia's office.

"Uncle Winthrop," as David knew him, was his mother's beloved younger brother, and the chairman of Chase National Bank, whose largest shareholder was David's father and which was popularly known as the Rockefeller Family Bank.

As always, there were the unimaginable resources of the overlapping family "Philanthropic" organizations whose boards he sat on, and whose resources he could direct to benefit his own agenda: the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Rockefeller Family Fund, the Rockefeller University and a host of similar bodies.

Patrick Wood: Well, the Trilateral Commission, as I mentioned, was started 1973 by David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Brzezinski's book, Between Two Ages, I believe is what really brought Rockefeller to the table-at least to pick up Brzezinski as a co-founder of the Trilateral Commission.

The intimate relationship between the eugenics movement and the Rockefeller family is a dark and largely uncovered part of its history, but it draws a straight line between the Bureau of Social Hygiene, the Eugenics Record Office and other organizations funded and promoted by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. on the one hand, and John D. Rockefeller III's founding of the Population Council from the offices and officers of the American Eugenics Society on the other.