Kerry made his Bones in secret club - like Bush (Kerry is a Skull and Bones Man!)

Boston Herald ^ | 5/15/03

[areafiftyone]

WASHINGTON - Sen. John F. Kerry expounds on many issues in his presidential campaign, but he's completely silent on one topic: his membership in Skull and Bones, Yale's infamous secret society.

``John Kerry has absolutely nothing to say on that subject. Sorry,'' said Kerry spokeswoman Kelley Benander.

Kerry is a respected senator and a decorated Vietnam War combat veteran, but 36 years after he was initiated into what has been called the ``ultimate old boy network,'' he's wary of breaking the ultra-exclusive club's strict secrecy code.

There's also another high-profile member of the club: President Bush.

Bonesmen already are buzzing over the prospect of the first Bones vs. Bones presidential race should Kerry win his party's nomination and face Bush in 2004.

``Bones don't care who wins,'' said author Alexandra Robbins, whose book ``Secrets of the Tomb'' pierced the secrecy shrouding the 171-year-old society. ``If Kerry wins, it's still a Bones presidency.''

Robbins calls the group ``probably the most secretive and successful club in America,'' and adds, ``It's also pretty bizarre.''

Every year, 15 Yale juniors are tapped for the club, which holds meetings twice a week in a crypt-like building known as the ``Tomb.''

Robbins described the interior, replete with skulls and skeletons, as a cross between the ``Addams Family'' and a slightly shabby English men's club.

There are bizarre initiation rites, including a ceremony where new members must spend an evening before a roaring fire in the Tomb recounting details of their sexual history to fellow members.

Kerry was tapped for the club in 1968, two years after Bush, whose father and grandfather were also Bonesmen. Kerry's brother-in-law from his first marriage, David Thorne, was Bones. So was the late husband of Kerry's current wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry. The Bones alumni roster is flush with CIA officials, business moguls, congressmen and Supreme Court justices. The club owns a secluded 40-acre island retreat on the St. Lawrence River.

In 1986, Kerry allegedly tried to recruit Jacob Weisberg, then a college-age intern at ``The New Republic'' magazine.

Weisberg, now Slate magazine editor, said Kerry made his pitch during a private meeting in his Senate office. Weisberg declined, pointedly asking Kerry how he squared his liberalism with membership in such an elitist club that refused to admit women. ``Kerry got sort of flustered and said, `I've marched with battered women,' '' Weisberg told the Herald.

Five years later, Kerry was among those voting to force the club to admit women after a bitter court fight.

[samuel_adams_us]

Skull & Bones isn't only at Yale. From looking in my Grandfathers class annual there was a chapter at the University of Viriginia as well, that was 1935.

[Fred Mertz]

At least he's not a Freemason. Too bad he looks like Herman Munster.

[Pkeel]

``Kerry got sort of flustered and said, `I've marched with battered women,' '' Weisberg told the Herald.

You may not be aware, but he is also a Vietnam Veteran

[lilylangtree]

Kerry's a member after all the RATS did to trash W. Another example of RAT hypocrisy. Make me sick to my stomach.

[areafiftyone]

LOL - with Lurch's voice!!!

[areafiftyone]

I am aware of that only because he is using that on his platform even though he protested the war by throwing someone elses medals over the White House fence!

[aristeides]

Imagine what conspiracy theorists will say if it's a Kerry vs. Bush race.

[JohnGalt]

Kerry did run the first congressional investigation to look into the goings-on at Mena Airport and give Herr Governor Clinton et al a pass.

I am sure Jim Leach will cover all that in his final Mena report which should be released any day now...yup, any day now...

[Prodigal Son]

Hmmm. It's odd that the media now wants to make an issue of this. The info has been out in the public domain for quite a long time.

[steplock]

"You may not be aware, but he is also a Vietnam Veteran"

How can we forget with that reminder EVERY time? But remember THIS also --- there were hundered of De Mau Mau (whitey haters) in Vietnam --- there were hundreds of communists/socialists drafted into the u.s. forces who used this as the opportunity to received the specialized training to DESTROY the United States of America --- there were mob members, gang members, murderers, thieves and other sundry pieces of SH*T that you could consider Vietnam Veterans. But I would NOT consider them to be anything to be proud of.

I AM a VietNam Vet USMC

[babylonian]

I wonder if he's a lizard, too.

[Fred Mertz]

Sorry, I forgot to flag you.

[Fred Mertz]

When Cheney presented an award to Rumsfeld the other day, he made some sort of reference to them being at the Bohemian Grove together....back in the '70s I believe.

[joesnuffy]

Hollywood hasnt let us forget for the last 40+ yrs...
whenever they need a politically correct "bad guy" he is either overtly a RVN vet or he is wearing a jungle fatigue jacket (with CIB) & jungle boots

[babylonian]

I wonder if they ran onto Danny Glover at BG?

[joesnuffy]

ooooooh the Boehemian Grove
Where the "Killing of Care" takes place.....

[Billy_bob_bob]

Now, now. Don't want to upset the Owl.

[Fred Mertz]

Evening Bump!

[GloriousGrace]

I just read over yesterday's posts and noticed no one seems to be taking Skull and Bones membership seriously. Is it that none of you take witchcraft seriously?

I love GWBush and the idea of him participating in this secret initiation ceremony concerns me. I'm doubling my prayers for the Bush family and America.

No matter what deceptions are in the world, I know this much is true: God is still God and very much in control.

GG