Eliot Ness, Robert Kennedy and #19
The Number 19
Misuse of Power
Like 13, 14, and 16, the other numbers of karma, 19 relates to original sin and the fall of man The legendary numerologist, Florence Campbell, in 1930 associated the number 19 with misuse of power in a former lifetime. However, to tell a person with 19 prominent in their name or birth date that they have a karma of misuse of power in a past life time is liable to evoke feelings of hurt, surprise, and possibly anger, for most 19s are reform-minded and are anxious to make the world a better place to live in. In my own research I have discovered that most 19s do their part to correct misuses of power in their lifetimes. For example, Karen Silkwood, who was born on February 19, was the whisteblower who exposed her company’s dangerous use of plutonium. Ralph Nader, who was born with a 19 life path number, has been an outspoken critic of corporate abuses of consumers and the environment. In the paragraphs below, I discuss how Eliot Ness and Robert Francis Kennedy with their 19s fought against abuses of power by members of organized crime and did their part to live up to the best qualities associated with the number 19.
The Fight Against Organized Crime
Eliot Ness
Eliot Ness was born on April 19, 1903. He was 26 years old when, in 1929, he was hired as a special agent of the U.S. Department of Justice to head the Prohibition bureau in Chicago, with the express purpose of investigating and harassing gangster Al Capone. Ness and his Untouchables raided breweries, speakeasies, and other places of outlawry. Their crime fighting made newspaper headlines and turned Eliot Ness and his Untouchables into heroes. The Untouchables’ infiltration of the underworld secured evidence that helped send Capone to prison for income-tax evasion. Shortly after his crime-fighting days in Chicago ended, Eliot Ness become Cleveland’s Safety Director in 1935. There he rooted out corruption and inefficiency in the police department, smashed gambling and extortion rings, tamed violent youth gangs, upgraded fire protection and traffic safety, and instituted other reforms. Eliot Ness was a true 19.
Robert Francis Kennedy
Robert Kennedy –2/ 4/ 1966 - Photo by Dick De Marsico - Courtesy Library of Congress
Robert Francis Kennedy (19 expression) was the first Attorney General of the United States to make a serious attack on organized crime. During his brief tenure as attorney general “prosecutions” of organized crime figures reached levels never before attained. Kennedy expanded the Justice Department’s Crime and Rackets Section from seventeen to sixty people, created investigative bureaus in six cities to collect data on over 1,100 racketeers, and authorized seven anticrime laws that were approved by Congress. A month before his brother’s assassination, in October 1963 Kennedy persuaded mobster Joseph Valachi to testify under government protection. He was the first ever mafia informant. His testimony revealed for the first time the intricate, secret working of the so-called Cosa Nostra crime syndicate and described how the continued operation of the Mafia depended on payoffs to local police, politicians, and city council members.
Bobby Kennedy first emerged as national figure years earlier in 1957, when as head of the team investigating the Trade Union movement, his investigation of James (Riddle) Hoffa (19 expression) was televised. Kennedy claimed that Hoffa had misappropriated $9.5 million in union funds and had corruptly done deals with employers. However, the jury found Hoffa not guilty. After Bobby Kennedy became Attorney General, he resumed his obsessive investigations into Hoffa’s activities. This time Kennedy was successful. In 1964, Hoffa was found guilty of taking money from the Teamsters’ Union pension fund and was sentenced to eight years in prison (later, to be pardoned by Richard Nixon in 1971).
Bobby finally got his man, or did he? While Bobby Kennedy was still alive and Hoffa was still in jail, the FBI questioned Jimmy Hoffa for alleged comments he had made to a fellow inmate on May 30, 1967. According to the informant, Hoffa told him, “I have a contract out on Kennedy. And if he ever gets in the primary or gets elected, the contract will be fulfilled within six months.” Of course, when agents asked about this, Hoffa denied ever having said that. On June 4, 1968, Robert Francis Kennedy with his 19 expression was assassinated by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan who was born on March 19, 1944 with 19 letters in his birth name.
Themocracy
