G. Edward Griffin

For other people with the same name, see Edward Griffin.

G. Edward Griffin
Born	George Edward Griffin (1931-11-07) November 7, 1931 Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Nationality	American
Education	University of Michigan (BA)
Occupation	Author, lecturer, filmmaker
Known for	Conspiracy theories
Spouse(s)	Patricia Irving Griffin

G. Edward Griffin (born November 7, 1931) is an American author and filmmaker. Griffin's writings promote a number of controversial views regarding politics, defense, and health. In his book World Without Cancer, he argues that cancer is a nutritional deficiency that can be cured by consuming trace amounts of amygdalin, a view which is disputed by many in the medical community. His most famous work is The Creature from Jekyll Island (1994), which claims to reveal the history and motives behind the creation of the Federal Reserve System. He also disputes the cause of AIDS, supports the 9/11 Truth movement, and supports an alternative theory regarding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He also believes that the biblical Noah's Ark is located at the Durupınar site in Turkey.

Biography

Griffin was born in Detroit, Michigan, on November 7, 1931, and became a child voice actor on local radio from 1942 to 1947. He later emceed at WJR (CBS), and continued as an assistant announcer at the public radio station WUOM. He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1953, majoring in speech and communications. In 1954, he served in the United States Army, and in 1956 was discharged as a sergeant.

Griffin worked as a writer for Curtis LeMay, vice presidential running mate for George Wallace during his 1968 United States Presidential campaign. Shortly thereafter, he began writing and producing documentary-style videos about the same controversial topics covered in his books, such as cancer, the historical authenticity of Noah's Ark, the Federal Reserve System, the Supreme Court of the United States, terrorism, subversion, and foreign policy.

Political advocacy

In 1964, Griffin wrote his first book, The Fearful Master, on the United Nations, a topic that recurs throughout his writings. While he describes his work as the output of "a plain vanilla researcher," Griffin also agrees with the Los Angeles Daily News's characterization of him as "Crusader Rabbit".

Griffin has been a member and officer of the John Birch Society (JBS) for much of his life and a contributing editor to its magazine, The New American. Since the 1960s, Griffin has spoken and written about the Society's theory of history involving "communist and capitalist conspiracies" over banking systems (including the Federal Reserve System), International banking, United States foreign policy, the U.S. military-industrial complex, the American news and entertainment media as propaganda, the Supreme Court of the United States, and the United Nations. From 1962 to 1975, he completed nine books and seven film productions; his 1969 video lecture, More Deadly Than War: The Communist Revolution in America, was printed in English and Dutch. In 1974, he published World Without Cancer, and in 1975, he wrote a sympathetic biography of JBS founder Robert W. Welch.

In May 2009, Griffin helped Robert L. Schulz and Edwin Vieira organize a meeting at Jekyll Island. Speakers at the meeting "warned of 'increasing national instability,' worried about a coming 'New World Order,' denounced secret schemes to merge Canada, Mexico and the United States, and attacked the new president's 'socialized' policies and failure to end illegal immigration." Meeting attendees made plans for a "continental congress" that occurred in November 2009 that was hosted by the We the People Foundation. Griffin was the first to speak at the Jekyll Island meeting and he "told conferees that merely putting 'large numbers of people in the street' was not enough. 'We must,' he said, 'achieve power.'"

He founded an organization called "Freedom Force International" that put on conventions, such as the "Red Pill Expo" in Bozeman, Montana in 2017.

Alternative view regarding history and science

The Creature from Jekyll Island

Griffin's 1994 book, The Creature from Jekyll Island, draws parallels between the Federal Reserve and a bird of prey.

He has opposed the Federal Reserve since the 1960s, saying it constitutes a banking cartel and an instrument of war and totalitarianism. Griffin presented his views on the U.S. money system in his 1993 movie and 1994 book on the Federal Reserve System, The Creature from Jekyll Island. The book was a business-topic bestseller. The book also influenced Ron Paul when he wrote a chapter on money and the Federal Reserve in his New York Times bestseller, The Revolution: A Manifesto.

Cancer

In 1973, Griffin wrote and self-published the book World Without Cancer and released it as a video; its second edition appeared in 1997. In the book and the video, Griffin asserts that cancer is a metabolic disease like a vitamin deficiency facilitated by the insufficient dietary consumption of amygdalin, a natural substance occurring in various foods such as fruit pits and seeds, raw nuts, sorgum, and clover. The drug Laetrile is a purified form of amydgalin. Griffin contends that "eliminating cancer through a nondrug therapy has not been accepted because of the hidden economic and power agendas of those who dominate the medical establishment" and he wrote, "at the very top of the world's economic and political pyramid of power there is a grouping of financial, political, and industrial interests that, by the very nature of their goals, are the natural enemies of the nutritional approaches to health."

Griffin's websites refer visitors to doctors, clinics, and hospitals with alternative cancer treatments, including sellers of laetrile. He does not sell laetrile himself.

The cause of AIDS

In 2010, Griffin made the claim that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) "doesn't exist" and that antiretroviral medications (rather than the HIV virus) cause acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

Chemtrails

In a 2012 video titled "What in the World Are They Spraying?", Griffin asserts that certain airplanes leave a grid of chemtrails hanging over large areas of the country, and which do not dissipate like ordinary contrails. These chemtrails, he asserts, contain aluminum, barium, and other substances that are affecting the soil and water supply, impacting the health of plant and animal life, including humans.

Noah's Ark search

In 1992 Griffin wrote and narrated The Discovery of Noah's Ark, based on David Fasold's 1988 book, The Ark of Noah. Griffin's film said that the original Noah's Ark continued to exist in fossil form at the Durupınar site, about 17 miles (27 km) from Mount Ararat in Turkey, based on photographic, radar, and metal detector evidence. Griffin also said that towns in the area had names that resembled terms from the Biblical story of the flood. He endorsed the historicity of the Biblical account of the flood, and speculated that the flood was the byproduct of massive tides caused by a gravitational interaction between Earth and a large celestial body coming close to it.

Works

Some of Griffin's work is published by Western Islands Publishers, the publishing arm of the John Birch Society, with the remainder being self-published through his own company, American Media.

Filmography

• • Also OCLC 19993388.
• Also OCLC 56844390.
• What in the World Are They Spraying? Produced by G. Edward Griffin, Michael Murphy, and Paul Wittenberger. (2010). OCLC 682713571

Further reading

• 56 pp.

External links

• G. Edward Griffin at the Internet Movie Database
• Guest listing: G. Edward Griffin, Coast to Coast AM
• Book discussion: The Creature from Jekyll Island, C-SPAN