FORT KNOX,KENTUCKY

OUTLINE

• FACTS • HISTORY

-Construction-WWII

• SECURITY

• Holds solid gold worth an estimated 140 billion dollars (usmint.gov)

• Run by the US Mint (usmint.gov)

• No visitors No Exceptions (usmint.gov)

• Holds over 4,600 tons of gold bullion (usmint.gov)

• Roughly 2.5% of all the gold ever refined throughout human history (usmint.gov)

• Fort Knox is the safest and most secure place on earth. (usmint.gov)

• 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlawed the private ownership of gold

• Federal Reserve increased from $4 billion to $12 billion between 1933 and 1937

• In 1936, the U.S. Treasury Department began construction of the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky

• The vault door is weighs 22 tons• The Fort is guarded by the United States

Military• 30,000 soldiers, with associated tanks,

armored personnel carriers, attack helicopters, and artillery.

• Fort Knox is empty? (timesonline.co.uk)

• Fort Knox has no gold But…

• Houses a Government lab• Has the cure to cancer and AIDS• Has alien bodies and spacecraft

• The world may never know…

OVERVIEW

• Fort Knox established in 1937• Safest place on earth• Holds estimated 140 billion in gold (or does

it?)• Held important historical documents during

and after WWII• Could be a secret government lab where they

do crazy alien experiments

Work CITED Page

• http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5989271.ece

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bullion_Depository

• http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/fun_facts/?action=fun_facts13

• http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/CoinLibrary/#Pres

QUESTIONS??

• MY INFO• DAVID AGUILO• DYA5099@PSU.EDU