Hidden History: An Exposé of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Politics

by Donald Jeffries

Learn about all the secrets our government has kept for the past fifty years.

The US government has spent half the time covering up conspiracies as it has spent helping the American people. In Hidden History, you will see the amount of effort over the past fifty years that our government has dedicated to lying and covering up the truth to the world.

Starting with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Don Jeffries chronicles a wide variety of issues that have plagued our country’s history. Whether it’s the assassinations of MLK and RFK, Iran-Contra, the Oklahoma City bombing, TWA Flight 800, voting fraud, or 9/11, every major disaster or war that we’ve witnessed has somehow been distorted by those who are supposed to be protecting us.

Jeffries also delves into extensive research on the death of John F. Kennedy Jr., and you’ll be shocked by what he finds out.

So whether you’ve only heard bits and pieces of these stories or have read several books on the topics, Hidden History is the book that belongs in every conspiracy theorist’s library, as the information included in this encyclopedia has never been collected together in any other published work available. So sit down, strap in, and get ready to be shocked and awed by how much has been hidden from you by our government over the past fifty years.

Genres: Nonfiction, History, Conspiracy Theories, Politics, True Crime, American History, Historical

384 pages, Hardcover

First published October 7, 2014

About the author

Author of the best-sellers "Hidden History: An Expose of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies and Cover-Ups in American Politics," "Survival of the Richest," "Crimes and Cover Ups in American Politics: 1776-1963," "Bullyocracy," and "On Borrowed Fame." Jeffries also hosts the weekly live streaming show "I Protest," which is broadcast on the America Unplugged channel at Rokfin.com.

His 2007 sci-fi/fantasy "The Unreals" has been compared to "The Wizard of Oz" and "A Confederacy of Dunces," among other things. It has been praised by the likes of "Darconian's Cat" author, former Harvard Professor Alexander Theroux, and acclaimed screenwriter ("Night at the Museum") and actor ("Reno 911") Robert Ben Garant. A second edition of "The Unreals" was released in February 2015. Among the noteworthy figures who have praised his work are Ron Paul, Naomi Wolf, Roger Stone, Jesse Ventura, former "Brady Bunch" star Susan Olsen, and Oscar-nominated actress Sally Kirkland.

Reviews

[Paula Gwinn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Normally, I am a fast reader, but I had to read this book slowly and really digest it. Every page or so, I would also have to "chase a rabbit" and dig up more information on topics Mr. Jeffries touched on. Since I retired, I have been trying to educate myself about politics in our country. I can honestly say that I am truly appalled at what is happening in "the land of the free." Everyone should be aware of what is going on and how the government is covering up things that it feels the populace does not need to know. This book covers (or recovers) some events that I already knew about; more importantly, it "uncovers" some news items that I am sure the American people have no idea are occurring within our borders. Definitely a book for our times!

[Heidi · Rating 5 out of 5]

IMHO, this book deserves more than 5 stars.

Well written and well organized.

Very compelling and interesting to read.

I have read several books in this genre and I would say that this is by far the best of the bunch.

I would say this is 1 of the 3 best non fiction books I have read in my life and I have read at least 600 non fiction books.

(Unlike most people, I usually prefer non fiction to fiction books.)

[Ashley McCabe · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the most scary non fiction books ever!

Unbelievable but I dare say very true, our sordid history, past and present. Most of us from births n 1950's and prior, senses and believed that all of this is probably true. It's amazing to hear of an incredible number of plane crashes, suicides, and murders that took place with people who questioned what was really going on versus what we were fed. I only pray that I have passed on before the evident outcome occurs. God help us all!!!!!!!

[David Wayne · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was my good fortune to see an advance copy of this book and it's a real gem. Full of fascinating and true contemporary American history. It's informative and entertaining at the same time- written in a professional, but also very accessible manner. A thoroughly enjoyable book. I highly recommend it.
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[Rita · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really liked this book as it took the information by decades and went through what has gone on since basically FDR. You realize that the corruption of our government has been going on for quite a bit longer than most people would realize.

[Vince · Rating 5 out of 5]

Donald Jeffries is to be highly commended for this very fine overview of many of the most famous and controversial events that occurred in America in the late 20th and early 21rst centuries. Admittedly, I bought this book (at first) "just" for the excellent chapter on the JFK assassination, but I decided to read further...I am so glad that I did. The book is quite a page-turner and is hard to put down. In particular, all the body counts, strange circumstances and "coincidences" build up so much it is difficult to chalk it all up to accidents of history, to put it quite mildly. The information on 9/11 was especially revealing for myself, as I am somewhat of a "skeptic of the skeptics". This book has made me want to delve deeper into the mysteries of 9/11; no small accomplishment, especially for the aforementioned indifference I had over a lot of what the so-called critics had come up with beforehand.

I highly recommend this well-written and compelling book to everyone!

[Marc · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book had me in a funk for days. The depth of depravity of our "intelligence" agencies knows no bounds. There is plenty to follow up on and research on your own in here and a lot of things I didn't know......and wish weren't true.

[Hanan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nothing as it seems in this world!

[Lee Tracy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overall, this is an excellent examination of various cover-ups and controversial subjects in recent US history (since 1963). Jeffries does a good job explaining the concept of fake liberals/leftists, and the idea that elites prefer to create a controlled political opposition to maintain the appearance of democracy. This includes a compliant corporate media, and the phony Republican-Democrat puppet show.

The chapter on the JFK assassination is pretty good. The MLK section is too short and doesn't mention the 1999 civil trial. The RFK chapter is very well done. Chappaquiddick and Watergate could have been discussed in more detail. The book gets much stronger dealing with the 1980s and beyond. The Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama years are covered in detail, including black operations, false flags, mysterious deaths and cover-ups that I had either forgotten or never heard about. There is no partisanship here. Jeffries skewers both parties equally, and even gets into the darker regions of child trafficking.

The chapter on the death of JFK Jr. is also excellent, and contains a lot of information that was new to me.

There are a few weak spots, though. There is no mention of the USS Liberty, which appeared to be an attempt by the Israelis and Lyndon Johnson to sink an American ship, blame Egypt for it, and get the US involved in the Six Day War (perhaps to overthrow Nasser and retake the Suez Canal). There are also a few errors. Operation Northwoods was not a CIA plan; it was conceived by the Pentagon. He also claims that Nixon was the first President to impose wage and price controls, but this was also done by FDR during World War II. I don't understand the praising of Ferdinand Marcos either (he misses the chance to discuss the Golden Lily treasure here).

Some quotes are also questionable. I've never been able to confirm that the Sarah McClendon quote from GHWB was actually printed in her newsletter. Has anyone ever seen a copy of it? The Caroline Kennedy quote about Obama is from a very iffy source. The William Colby quote is found all over the internet; it apparently comes from Dave McGowan and I'm skeptical that he actually said it.

I also wish there was a bibliography. Still, I highly recommend this book. Jeffries has obviously been researching these subjects for a long time, and a few errors are unavoidable in a work like this.

[SAP · Rating 5 out of 5]

The truth will set you free

The best book on this subject I have read. Excellent work and well researched. Very thorough. Wake up and read what really happened.....while you were sleeping!

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good

Awesome. Proves that George W Bush should be thrown in prison and given the death penalty for killing too many Americans

[Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

So good. So much fascinating information. So much research, all in one place. Remember:
“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.” Friedrich Nietzsche

[Ailith Twinning · Rating 1 out of 5]

What a waste is a conspiracy theorist. A reasonably sharp mind done in by fear of gays and Catholics and full blown Satanists ruling the world. There are actual facts mixed in this work, but to answer it he gives into the temptation to just flatly make shit up. I could do the same, equally plausibly and equally satisfactorily, with different tales fit to my biases. E.g. what if that chickenhawk POS Hitchens was coopted by the CIA to support the spread of Islamaphobia and support for a Crusade against a third of the world, bringing rebel atheist youth into the same mold as their Christian Fascist forebears? I think it's more likely he was just a hateful coward. But back to this book, when you mix Webb, Alex Jones, Michael Moore, and the public record and treat all equally as sources, you've gone off the deep end. When you say "you don't have to be a birther to believe this" and then spell out the birther conspiracy, you're delusional, at best. Or, possibly, a manipulative cunt.

And what does the Truth even matter? Stick to the facts. As one writer said. Oh, you're making it far too complicated. Everything is out in the open now. Have you ever actually looked at this Capitalism thing?

Rule 1: Don't give the enemy what it wants. No matter what the Truth behind 911 really is, all the potential actors want basically the same thing, so, just stop giving it to them. Fight to repeal the Patriot Act, reaffirm constitutional rights of due process, end imperialism, and crack down on the CIA and the other Gestapo-esque agencies.

And, for the record, a capitalist Libertarian is just about as far right as it gets, it puts corporations in power rather than dictators is all. The inverted totalitarianism we currently live under, or Gross' Friendly Fascism if you prefer him to Woldin. So, Jeffries, you're decidedly right wing, and again either irresponsibly blind to your own bias not to know this, or quite possibly being a manipulative bastard.

EDIT: original from phone, fixed the many, many typos.

Edit 2025: Or you know quintouple down on ICE as the modern US secret police kidnapping, torturing and murdering random citizens in the arbitrary pursuit of racial purity to distract from the hell you've inflicted on the world for the handful of chosen white citizens rich enough and compliant enough to have 'rights'.

We are so, so screwed. Things have always been bad, but bad can always become worse, and my my how the train speeds.

[Corey Bourne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting and eye opening.

I enjoyed the book even though the author seems to believe the Kennedys can do no wrong. He did cover both sides of the political fence and not pointing fingers at one party over the other which was refreshing to read.

[Jean Vatnsdal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent! A must read! Mr. Jeffries research is well documented and over-the-top interesting.

[Jeanette Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent summary of JFK through present points of interest that every American should at least be aware of, if not outright skeptical or critical of. An introduction to rabbit holes.

[Talor North · Rating 5 out of 5]

Horrifying. 🙃

[Melinda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read. So much research, so many conspiracies. Well presented. Really intriguing ideas.

[Kat M · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book had potential, but was a big disappointment to me. The potential came from interesting subject matter. I struggled from the very beginning with the writing and organizational styles, which were confused. I read the whole book, but it was one of the most tedious reads in a very long time.

It is helpful, when recounting historical events, to clearly last out the events you are referring to. This author assumes that the reader has a clear memory of the events he discusses. For me, some events I was not alive to witness, but even the ones I was alive for, I did not always remember all the details. This left me bewildered chapter after chapter as I waited for the author to remind me of basic facts.

The citation method in the book is amateurish and distracting. A good editor could have moved much content to footnotes, which 1) would have made the text flow better, and 2) showcased the research that was done.

The author's analysis for each event was incredibly lame. Random events would be strung together, but the reader is left with no clue as to their meaning. On far too many occasions, the author claims that an event is extremely unlikely, but there is really no basis for these assertions aside from the author's worldview. For example, it is unlikely for people to die in plane crashes. But, if a person flies on private planes weekly, versus the average citizen on a commercial jet a couple times a year, what are the actual odds? It is unlikely to get murdered if you are an average citizen, but much more likely for certain risk factors, such as being famous, living in drug-invested neighborhoods, or being a spy, to name a few. (European kings once had a very high rate of being a murder victim.) So the reader of this book actually has no idea whether a certain death is suspiciously unlikely. Yet the author asserts, without basis, that numerous deaths are suspicious. (They *may* be, but I didn't get any information about it from this book.)

[Bettye McKee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting information

I've been called a conspiracy theorist. And no, I haven't seen any UFOs.

It continues to amaze me what the American people are willing to believe in the face of hard facts. It's true, I haven't trusted the government since the very obvious cover-up job of the JFK assassination. So it's not surprising that so much of the material in this book seems credible.

I was already familiar with some of the topics, such as "the boys on the tracks" in Mena, Arkansas, or the blatantly false claim that Vince Foster committed suicide. It makes one wonder how much more, still to be uncovered, the government has lied about to the American people.

I would recommend that every person who is interested in the truth put forth the effort to read this book. I am not endorsing every word as being true. But as I read it, I found myself saying, "Yes, that's true," " I know that's true, " "Okay, that's true." When you read it, you can draw your own conclusions.

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[Meg Stuart · Rating 1 out of 5]

Garbage

"Author" cites Alex Jones as a credible source and repeatedly uses the word "sheeple." That should tell you all you need to know. A waste of money even at ¢99

[Frode · Rating 3 out of 5]

Corruption + cover-up = conspiracy. Hidden History by Donald Jeffries was published in 2016 and it covers various things that happened from the JFK assassination up through the Obama years. Donald Trump is mentioned a couple of times, but the book predates his presidency.

The book is filled with facts that never got any real press in the United States at the time or since except in books, which very few people read. It is a connect-the-dots type of book where a plethora of information is given, and the reader is left to draw his own conclusions.

Mr. Jeffries obviously likes the Kennedy clan. That small bias shows through when he writes about them. He seems to also favor unions and dislikes big business because of their cronyism with big government. He is rather pessimistic about the direction we as a country are going and whether we can get turned around in time to salvage the nation.

Every president from JFK to Obama gets his turn under the author’s spyglass although some get more scrutiny than others. Mr. Jeffries begins with John F. Kennedy’s assassination and spends a lot of time on it. He calls it the mother of all conspiracies. He identifies lots of discrepancies in the official versions of what happened to not only JFK but also Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, and the attempt on Reagan’s life. He does not trust the government, its intelligence agencies, most politicians, and the kept press. The author produces a body count for most presidents and gives names, dates, and inconsistencies surrounding those deaths. The FBI and CIA come off as parties to the cover-ups and misinformation. He rails at the press which does no investigative journalism but simply parrots the government lies. He also shows that the two party system is a farce since on the big issues, both parties join together to obscure the truth and to impose greater controls on the people.

Mr. Jeffries also covers 9/11, the killing of Osama bin Laden, some sex scandals, child protective services, voter fraud, big charities, and the justice system’s unfair treatment of the poor. It is a book filled with information that most folks have never heard. He calls the Electoral College system archaic and illogical, but then he reveals how votes are counted, or supposedly counted by a private corporation, first called the News Election Service. They operate without a contract and without supervision from any public officials. The name changed to Voter News Service and then in 2003 it became the National Election Pool. They are heavily aligned with the League of Women Voters. These folks decide elections by giving out the final numbers.

This book is not light reading with all the facts and figures and names and places, but it is worth reading. You will have to make up your own minds after reading it on just how much you can believe of what you think you know about politics and our government.

[Brian Meadows · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a bit hard to read as the massive amount of facts and statements and their connections can be quite overwhelming. I always knew things were kept hushed up by the government authorities as well as the media, but the sheer volume of them is over the top. “Conspiracy theorists” is a term that is used, like many others, discredit a free-thinking individual’s statements that for one reason or another are not easy to deal with and fly in the face of the resolution we want to hear.

The author deals with a plethora of events from the John F. Kennedy assassination up through most of the Obama years. He digs into all silenced information that doesn’t make it past the mainstream media on both sides of the political fence. Much happens to protect the status quo of the establishment who is in power. There are “body counts” for each presidential administration that the book covers. The sheer number of suspicious deaths and “suicides” that were not dealt with adequately are mind-numbing. There were times that, although it was readable and exciting, I had to put it down just to take a breather and get my mind off of it before resuming. The author didn’t seem to have much political bias. I was watching for it as I read. Both parties were handled roughly. The only ones he seemed to tread lightly and not delve into were the Kennedys. One reason for that, I found as I read, was that they were not a part of or sympathetic to the movement toward a “New World Order” with the goal of one-world government. The only exception he mentioned was that, in recent years, Carolyn Kennedy Schlossberg has shown some activity in being a part of that. All presidents since JFK have either been proponents tolerated it or had high-level appointees working to that end (e.g. Henry Kissinger).

The author never completely pulls together the myriad of suspicious actions to point clearly at what powerful forces may be behind these heinous actions and cover-ups as a grand conspiracy. Maybe he doesn’t know. Maybe there isn’t one cohesive force at work, but several. Even if a fraction of the material presented were not true, the reader will likely be convinced that something we are not being told is at foot by the sheer volume of it. It makes you wonder where we are heading. It raises more questions than it answers. Whatever there is, the suspicious actions are there and it makes you think twice about trusting anyone who is in a powerful position completely. I am glad I read the book and I would recommend it if you are ready for the challenge it presents.

[Strong Extraordinary Dreams · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is like a "START HERE" manual for knowing about non-MSM history. Like many readers, I knew, already, a lot of what was discussed here, and the primary details fo nearly all of it.

However, this book is a history-telling with significantly more detail that I have, though, to me, huge facets of many of these incidents were left out or unknown by this author.

Would have been three-stars, but one more for going so boldly where we have all been told "Do NOT look here".

[Debby Sangiovanni · Rating 4 out of 5]

I first heard about this book when Mr. Jeffries appeared on SGTReport and I found their discussion interesting enough that I bought the book. There's a lot of information and photos that I've not heard of seen anywhere before. It's a very good read if you're interested in the assassinations of both Kennedy's and Martin Luther King Jr.

[GeneralTHC · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not exactly blown away by this one, but I'm probably just burned out on this topic. This book did cover quite a bit of ground and would probably be a good primer for someone who didn't know much about the topic.

[Frank · Rating 1 out of 5]

This facile and Jeune idiot thinks he's profound. We've heard him spout his idiocy on Jeff Rense. His adolescent stupidity fails to address historical reality. He's a sophomoric American high school nincompoop who really has no business publishing his idiocy in print

[Aurelia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’m hooked on Donald Jeffries’ writing and thorough analysis.
Some passages were sometimes hard to digest, with lots of info sometimes spread all over the place, hence why I didn’t give a 5 star review.
You will learn a lot!

[Michelle Peterson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Unsettling, interesting, disturbing.... Makes you wonder if you can ever trust anyone in politics ever!

[Julie Hardy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one took a bit to get through because it's so intense! Dear Lord if half of what Donald Jeffries shares in this book is true we are living in one of the scariest places on earth!