Hi everybody, welcome back to another most amazing top 10 video.
I’m your host Landon Dolatsingh.
Crimes are committed everyday and a lot of the time, people try to conceal any evidence
of their wrongdoing.
Well, today we will be looking at the top 10 huge crimes that were covered up.
Starting us off in at number 10 we have, The tobacco industry.
Lung cancer used to be a very rare disease, so rare that doctor’s thought it was a once
in a lifetime disease.
However, after the mass production and marketing of cigarettes in the 19th century, it lead
to a lung cancer epidemic.
Many studies were conducted and they all found a correlation between smoking cigarettes and
lung cancer but the tobacco industry disputed this evidence because they obviously don’t
want their sales to decline.
Even during production, they knew that cigarettes could be very bad for your health but they
continued to make them because it came with a nice paycheck.
Up next in at number 9 is The JFK assassination.
This is probably one of the biggest government cover-ups ever.
It is not confirmed however, but there are numerous conspiracy theories surrounding his
assassination.
Initial reports said that the shooter was Lee Harvey Oswald but then within a couple
of days he was shot and killed in from of hundreds of people on his way into the police
station so a lot of people believe that he was shot by the CIA in order to shut him up.
Other theories claim that there were multiple gunmen or that a rogue secret service agent
accidentally shot the President.
I guess it’s safe to say that we may never know the full story.
CIA torture techniques comes in at number 8.
Back in 2014, the Senate Report on CIA detention interrogation program was released and the
public saw that the CIA had been not only using illegal interrogation techniques, but
that those horrifying torture techniques didn’t even work that well.
We’re not sure what the government wanted to cover up more, the fact that they had been
using awful torture techniques or that they were so bad at it.
CIA mind control program makes it into number 7.
Project MK-Ultra was a program that illegally experimented on humans.
The CIA wanted to develop drugs and procedures that could be used in interrogations and torture
in order to weaken the individual into confessing.
They would administer LSD and other chemicals, use hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation
and verbal abuse in order to psychologically torture them.
Needless to say, their experiments didn’t work quite as planned so the project was scrapped
but the CIA director also ordered the workers to destroy all of the evidence and documents
from this program.
The Watergate scandal is in at number 6.
This is probably one of the most well-known government scandals.
Basically, under President Nixon’s orders, a group of men broke into the DNC headquarters
at the Watergate complex in order to dig up dirt on the Democratic party that could be
used in upcoming elections.
Obviously, the men were caught and Nixon tried his best to cover up the scandal but his entire
plan unraveled when a tape was released that proved Nixon was trying to cover up the scandal.
That is just so embarrassing.
He is actually the only president to ever resign from office and he did this so he could
avoid being prosecuted.
Up next in at number 5 we have The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.
This was a huge ethical scandal that occurred between 1932 and 1973.
This was an infamous clinical study by the US public heath service where the purpose
of the study was to observe the natural progression of untreated syphilis in rural African American
men in Alabama.
However, the researchers never told the infected men that they had the disease or what the
purpose of the study was.
They told the men that they would be receiving free medical care for their “bad blood.”
Even when penicillin was available in 1947, the researchers never offered it to them which
would have effectively treated syphilis.
Keep in mind syphilis is a pretty serious disease that can cause paralysis, blindness,
damage to the heart and brain and even death.
The Ford Pinto crashes into number 4.
This car model was first introduced in 1971 and even though sales were going well, Ford
was hiding a dark secret.
This particular model had a serious design problem.
During low-speed rear end crash testing, the fuel tank’s filler neck had a tendency to
tear away and spill gasoline under the car.
It would have cost an additional $11 per car to fix the problems but Ford decided to do
nothing, they thought it would cost less to pay off the owners whose cars caught on fire.
Well, a journalist sifted through the mountain of paperwork and discovered a memo in which
the company calculated that settling burn victim lawsuits would save the company $70
million over installing the parts in the cars.
After Ford was exposed, the company had to shell out a lot of money in damages and their
reputation was ruined for quite some time.
Now in at number 3 we have Pedophile Priests.
A Roman Catholic priest James R. Porter, sent a disturbing letter to the Pope admitting
that he had been sexually abusing children for years and asked if he can be relieved
of his duties before he hurt anyone else.
But then in 1992, his personal file was investigated and it was determined that this priest had
a lot of help covering up his crimes over the course of his 14-year career.
He had been removed from his duties 8 times because he assaulted children and he was then
sent to a mental health facility to get treatment for his pedophilia.
And after that, he would be allowed back to work.
This is just one example, for decades priests have been abusing thousands of children and
their crimes would be covered up in order to preserve the reputation of priests and
the Catholic church.
The My Lai Massacre makes it into number 2.
This occurred during the Vietnam War and it was a mass killing and gang rape of between
347-504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians.
It was committed by the US army and the victims included men, women, children and infants.
Some of these women were gang-raped and their bodies were left mutilated.
Initially the massacre was reported as a routine battle but upon further investigation, they
found out that it was an intentional mass killing of innocent bystanders.
Coming in at number 1 is The Franklin child prostitution ring.
This took place between 1988-1991 and it involved influential members and political figures
such as Lawrence King and President George H.W.
Bush.
It is alleged that this group transported children of all ages across the country for
“secret parties” where the children would be molested, beaten and even murdered.
When this scandal was exposed the witnesses were deemed uncreditable so the case was dismissed.
Well there you guys have it…