The history of the Rockefeller family? Black or not?

On May 23, 1937, the 98-year-old Rockefeller died in his Ormond Beach villa. His descendants continued his legacy. For the Chinese, it seems to be an ironclad law that "you cannot get rich for more than three generations." However, the Rockefeller family has been in business for six generations and still shows no signs of decadence and decline. This is closely related to their concept of wealth and the education of their children since childhood. Their family values ??frugality and is passionate about creating wealth. However, conspiracy theories about this family have never stopped.

(The Rockefeller family in 2008)

(Old Rockefeller)

John D. Rockefeller (1839.7.8 – 1937.5 23) is American industrialist, super capitalist, founder of Mobil Oil Company (Standard Oil). Born in Richford, New York, to William Avery Rockefeller, an unlicensed physician, and Eliza Davidson, a devout Baptist. Rockefeller is the richest person in global history other than monarchs, and is the world-recognized "oil king."

Sixteen-year-old Rockefeller worked as a clerk in a dry goods store in Ohio, earning $5 a week. At the age of 19, he went into business and resold grain and meat. From this point on, Rockefeller kept a record of every income and expenditure, not even missing a penny of charitable donations. After three years of accumulation, 22-year-old Rockefeller entered the oil industry and founded Standard Oil Company in 1870.

(Old Rockefeller)

However, Rockefeller was not satisfied with this speed of savings-based wealth creation. In 1882, he created an unprecedented joint venture-trust. This structure, which made it easy to accumulate wealth, enabled Standard Oil to become the world's largest oil conglomerate two years later. Rockefeller became a famous "oil king" at home and abroad. Standard Oil Company was eventually renamed Mobil Oil Company. In 1910, Rockefeller's wealth reached $1 billion. The good times did not last long, and the next year the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to dissolve the trust.

Although his huge wealth aroused social vigilance, Rockefeller himself was still a devout Christian and lived strictly according to the Baptist doctrine - no drinking, smoking, or even dancing. Different from the habits of wealthy people in the general sense, Rockefeller had little interest in buying French manor or Scottish castle, nor did he disdain to buy art, yachts or medieval-style suits. His lifelong hobby was horse riding.

After retiring from Standard Oil in 1897, Rockefeller focused on philanthropy, investing hundreds of millions of dollars in charity projects.

(John D. Rockefeller, Jr.)

The only son and heir of John D. Rockefeller Sr. is John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

It’s hard to imagine that on Rockefeller’s 20th birthday, his father’s gift was a letter from home and $20 in cash. Another famous example is when he inspected the company and found that the workers used 40 drops of solder to seal oil barrels to ensure quality. He asked the workers to try using 38 drops of solder. After the workers tried it, they found that it affected the quality. Then they discovered that 39 drops of solder can achieve the same perfect effect as 40 drops. He immediately promoted it and wrote to his son Rockefeller Jr. that this drop of solder saved could save the entire group $25,000 throughout the year.

(The home of John D. Rockefeller Jr.)

The elder Rockefeller paid great attention to the correspondence with his son, passing on his life wisdom and business experience to his son, with a wide range of contents, from How to start from the bottom, how to employ people, and become an excellent leader; from how to align credibility with capital, to overcome business impulses; from facing money directly, to treating this life well; and even in detail, how to prepare a wonderful speech or choose a marriage partner.

Now, people have even collected the letters written by the elder Rockefeller to the younger Rockefeller into a volume and published "38 Letters from Rockefeller to His Son".

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. had 6 children. His sister, Babs, was the eldest, and the others were all boys. From eldest to youngest, they were John, Nelson, Lawrence, Winthrop and the eldest. guard.

(Lawrence Rockefeller)

Lawrence Rockefeller was born on May 26, 1910 in New York.

During his childhood, Lawrence was closest to Nelson, who was two years his senior, and together they raised rabbits and sold them to science laboratories for pocket money. Such a thing may sound difficult to relate to the extremely wealthy Rockefeller family, but it is indeed the case.

The reason why the descendants of the Rockefeller family can achieve extraordinary achievements in the future has a lot to do with the family education they received since childhood. In order to prevent their children from being spoiled by the family's halo, both John Rockefeller Sr. and John D. Rockefeller Jr. put great effort into educating their children and had an ancestral education plan. Father encouraged Lawrence and other children to earn money by doing housework: catching flies in the corridor would give a dime for every 100 flies; catching mice in the attic would cost 5 cents, and there was also a price for carrying and chopping firewood. Lawrence and his brother Nelson obtained the franchise of shining the family's shoes when they were 7 and 9 years old respectively. Each pair of leather shoes was 2 cents and each pair of boots was 1 dime.

(Hillary Clinton and Lawrence Rockefeller)

Lawrence inherited the talent for making money from his grandfather. He has a fortune of US$1.5 billion to his name and is listed in the Forbes Global Ranked 377th out of 587 billionaires.

In 1937, Lawrence inherited the New York Stock Exchange bought by his grandfather, embarked on the road of entrepreneurship from Wall Street, and pioneered venture capital in the United States. Surprisingly, instead of buying more blue-chip stocks, he started investing in and helping start-up startups.

During World War II, he froze his business and served in the Navy with the rank of colonel. After the war, he returned to the business and continued to look for new companies to invest in. A 1959 Wall Street Journal article specifically pointed out Lawrence's contributions to the new field of "venture capital," thus establishing his status as the "Father of Venture Capital."

On July 11, 2004, Lawrence Rockefeller, who had billions of dollars and was all-powerful in the United States, passed away in his sleep at the age of 94.

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David Rockefeller was born in New York on June 12, 1915. He was the youngest of the brothers and the one who would become the third generation leader of the Rockefeller economic empire.

His career is not in oil, but in the famous Manhattan Bank, which ranks sixth among the ten largest banks in the world. After he became the chairman and general manager of the bank's executive committee, he raised the bank's capital from US$2 billion to a net asset value. Reaching US$3.4 billion.

The world's most famous Bilderberg Club gathers elite figures in Western politics and economics, including David Rockefeller. The club has a board of directors composed of a dozen people, including Rockefeller and Agnelli, and a committee composed of various participating countries, who have the right to invite representatives from the other two countries to attend meetings of the Bilderberg Club. /p>

In 1972, David Rockefeller proposed to let Japan join the conference, but was rejected, so he started anew and established the "Trilateral Commission". "Trilateral" refers to North America, Western Europe and the Asia-Pacific. In the 1980s, the "Trilateral Commission" was very popular, with a large number of political dignitaries among its members, and was known as the "shadow government"

Rockefeller: a name with original sin

However, some people say that "Rockefeller" is a name that carries original sin.

(Jay Rockefeller)

In 2013, Jay Rockefeller, the fifth generation of the Rockefeller family. Retirement marks the family's departure from American politics. Jay's uncle, Nelson Rockefeller, was elected governor of New York State in 1958 and was re-elected for three terms, but he seemed to have failed three times in a row when he tried to gain the party's presidential nomination. It became a curse when he reached the peak of power.

During the turbulent anti-Vietnam War and anti-establishment tide among American young people in the 1960s and 1970s, "Rockefeller" became a name with original sin. At a campaign event, an Asian female student shouted at him: "You and your brothers are the problem of this country. "

In fact, the "original sin" was doomed early. In 1913, a 9,000-person general strike broke out in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Ore Company, which was spun off from the Standard Oil Company. The armed confrontation between labor and management lasted for eight months. In the end, a violent conflict broke out, causing dozens of casualties on both sides. On the labor side, 11 women and children suffocated to death in the burning tent.

The Rockefeller family only held shares at the time, not the company's management, but angry crowds still surrounded their New York home with slogans such as "Rockefellers murdered women and children." Radical demonstrators threatened to break through the locked doors and shoot John D. Rockefeller II (Jr.).

At that time, Rockefeller Jr. was in the house with his critically ill mother. In the end, a homemade bomb was detonated near the residence, killing four radical demonstrators. This event became a turning point for the Rockefeller family from business to philanthropy. Rockefeller Jr. donated $500 million in his lifetime, which is more than half of his net worth.

(Nelson Rockefeller)

In 1974, when U.S. President Ford invited Nelson Rockefeller to serve as Vice President, the huge wealth of the Rockefeller family once again became the focus at the congressional hearing. Nelson was pressured to reveal the family's assets at the time ($1.3 billion). This was viewed by his brother, John Rockefeller III, as a betrayal of the family. The latter took over the Rockefeller family industry and did not talk to Nelson for a long time.

However, when President Ford ran for re-election three years later, he did not choose Nelson as his partner under pressure from the right wing of the party. The abandoned Nelson never interfered with the affairs of the Communist Party and the Party since then.

"Is your family involved in a conspiracy to control the world?"

For Jay Rockefeller, the burden brought by his family's wealth and power also followed him. Whether it is the Freemasonry, the Illuminati Gang or the "New World Order", the Rockefeller family is one of the protagonists in almost every new conspiracy theory.

(Jay Rockefeller)

In 2009, a video on Youtube showed a group of young documentary filmmakers chasing Jay Rockefeller, who was on crutches, asking him to Responding to accusations in a series of conspiracy theories:

"Is your family involved in a conspiracy to control the world?"

"Did your family's laboratory collaborate with Hitler to research humans? "An optimized drug?"

"Are you the culprit of 9/11?"

Rockefeller had to walk back to the office slowly with a wry smile. When leaving, he said to the young people chasing behind him: "You are brave enough, why not go and elect members?"

In 1991, while participating in the nomination of the presidential candidate of the Communist Party of China and the Communist Party of China, At a dinner hosted by competitor Pat Buchanan, Jay Rockefeller made a joke about his background when faced with Buchanan, who was born into a civilian family. He said that his childhood experience was "similar" to Buchanan's: Pat liked to play with blocks when he was a child, and he often played with blocks (both "blocks" and "blocks" in English are "Block") when he was a child, "such as New York's Landmarks 48th Street, 49th Street and Fifth Avenue.” In the end, he did not forget to tell Buchanan, "Control the whole world, Pat! We don't care about anything else!".

Obviously, for Jay Rockefeller and his family, it is time to give up "controlling the world."