>1964 was the year 'they' took the silver out of the people's money
There was a head start.
The March of Dimes.
Created in 1938 by FDR and Basil O'Connor to fight poliovirus
Basil O'Connor was also the head of the Red Cross, and was affiliated with the West Indies Sugar Corp and New England Fuel Oil Corp
March of Dimes had people all over the country mail in their dimes to support the cause
At that time, dimes were 90% silver and 10% copper
"Over the years he collected and spent more than seven billion dimes — many of them from schoolchildren — with a half-billion dollars of it going to the war on polio."
Half a billion dollars worth of dimes. In 1938 money.
Less than a decade later, the US dime was changed to a copper/nickel composition
With Roosevelt's likeness stamped on it
March of Dimes directly helped Jonas Salk and the speedy development of his polio vaccine
Salk took grants from the Mellon family and worked for the Rockefeller Foundation, where he discovered type B influenza
He was also a proponent of mandatory vaccinations
Did FDR cheat the American people out of their silver dimes during the Polio epidemic/hysteria?
Was Salk really the hero everyone made him out to be?