00:00My father, Edward Jones, he was a gentleman. He was just a good person.
00:08Ed Jones was a genius.
00:10They made about $110, $115 million, which was equivalent to about a billion dollars then.
00:18Long before there was a state lottery, there was this illegal numbers game called policy,
00:24controlled by black men called Policy Kings.
00:27This is the first policy station owned by the Jones brothers.
00:34In the back, it's policy action.
00:37Policy was an economic arm of the black community.
00:43The feds went after the Jones brothers.
00:46It really didn't have anything to do with gambling.
00:49Ed Jones had a lot to do with the shift from Republican to Democrat.
00:52This was really a move by the government designed to get this black man out of power and out of influence.
00:59Poe used the gun to get what he wanted.
01:15Ed Jones used the gun to protect what he had.
01:18My father was never a gangster.
01:19Maybe he was a gangster.
01:21This takeover probably couldn't happen without political blessing.
01:35It's just so important to understand your history because if you know where you come from,
01:46that helps you get where you're going.
01:47People have no idea why you do, people haveRecord.com.
02:03Well, thank you very much.
02:03Thank you very much.
02:05Thank you.
02:05Thank you.
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