RE: Henry Ford, etc.: a footnote

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

And--is this widely known?--just as Texaco started sponsoring the weekly 
Metropolitan Opera House radio broadcasts as P.R. to counter the news of 
*their* cooperation w/ the Nazis during World War II. -- Robert

>From: Dan Peck <danpeck (at) panix(dot)com>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: RE: Protocols... -sidebar
>Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 18:58:09 -0500
>
>Nonsense.  I have never seen a shred of evidence that Henry Ford
>regretted his actions. Considering the scale of his bigotry, it would
>hardly matter. It is sometimes argued that Ford was just a product of
>his time and that lots of people of the era held irrational
>prejudices. But lots of people did not spend millions to spread that
>venom to the rest of the world. And Ford's antisemitism was a
>particularly virulent strain.
>
>What did happen later in his life and even more so after his death
>was a massive campaign by the Ford family and motor company to
>downplay the viciousness of his hateful actions. Just as the
>Rockefellers spent billions to attempt to wash the blood from their
>familial hands owing to the murderous anti-union tactics of John Sr,
>the Fords spent billions to convince the world that old Henry wasn't
>really the Jew bashing bastard that he so clearly was.




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