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Filmemacherin Harriet Marin Jones sucht im Dokumentarfilm King of Kings: Chasing Edward Jones die Wahrheit über ihren Großvater Edward Jones, der in Chicago während der Depressionszeit politische und finanzielle Berühmtheit erlangte. Er stammte aus einer Sklavenfamilie und kam durch illegale Zahlenspiele, in den 1930ern zu großem Reichtum und erschuf so den Vorläufer der amerikanischen Lotterie.  Mehr dazu: https://www.moviepilot.de/movies/king-of-kings-chasing-edward-jones

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00:00.

00:02.

00:04Long before there was a state lottery,

00:06there was this illegal numbers game called policy,

00:09controlled by black men called policy kings.

00:13They made about 110, 115 million dollars,

00:16which was equivalent to about a billion dollars then.

00:19Policy was an economic arm of the black community.

00:24When the feds went after the Jones brothers,

00:28it really didn't have anything to do with gambling.

00:31Ed Jones had a lot to do with the shift

00:33from Republican to Democrat.

00:35This was really a move by the government

00:37designed to get this black man out of power

00:40and out of influence.

00:48Capone used the gun to get what he wanted.

00:51Ed Jones used the gun to protect what he had.

00:54My father was never a gangster.

00:56Maybe he was a gangster.

01:03This takeover probably couldn't happen

01:06without political blessing.

01:12It's just so important to understand your history

01:15because if you know where you come from,

01:17that helps you get where you're going.

01:19I Hii bones.

01:21I'm not a god, you're good.

01:23I'm not a kid.

01:24We're not a千y-kodem.

01:26We will actually meet none.

01:28He's looking for court.

01:30I hope he's going through and I's looking for an apple.

01:31We will always be you but down in the middle.

01:33We won the bare race.

01:35This runs the health.

01:36Each man-based technology is getting closer to the core of persona,

01:38where we will be ItsRE.

01:39We need you now.

01:40We're busy in Reynold.

01:42With my understanding,

01:44we're busy in particular.

King of Kings: Chasing Edward Jones - Trailer (English)

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