Last week I came upon Conspiracy of Silence, a very disturbing documentary about high-level American politicians’ involvement of child sex slavery in the 1980s (watch the full-length version below).
The Conspiracy of Silence story emerged when two British documentarians were sent to investigate the closing of the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union in Omaha, Nebraska, from which Lawrence E. (Larry) King, a celebrated black republican political leader, was charged with embezzling almost $40 million. Conspiracy of Silence was produced by Yorkshire Television (UK) and was scheduled to air on the Discovery channel (US) on May 3, 1994. At the last minute, the documentary was pulled and was never broadcast in either Great Britain or the United States.
- Lawrence E. “Larry” King
My research into this story has revealed consistency of information, but very little credibility or reliability in the sources. There is no Wikipedia entry on the documentary, and only a “stub” on the child sex slavery allegations. I have found a few books, academic explorations, websites, interviews, and articles, but they leave me unsatisfied, even accumulatively.
- Conspiracy of Silence – No Entry
Were you aware of this “scandal” in 1994? Do you remember anything about Conspiracy of Silence being pulled from the Discovery channel, or of the related sex crime allegations? Do you think that a lack of publicity and information would have existed if the Larry King “scandal” was exposed in 2008, rather than 1988?
A Fader original, no doubt.
