Benjamin Guggenheim

Some of the ship's most famous passengers are said to have left behind something as well.

Benjamin Guggenheim is one of the Titanic's wealthiest passengers, but when the ship began to sink, he reportedly changed out of his life jacket and into his formal evening clothes, determined to face the end like a gentleman.

Today, some believe Guggenheim has returned to a place that once belonged to his family.

The Guggenheim Library and the now Lauren K.

Three of them, that was Isidore Strauss, who was the owner of Macy's department store, John Jacob Astor, who was purportedly the richest man in the world, but that doesn't include Rothschilds, of course.

And Benjamin Guggenheim, mining engineer, mining entrepreneur, mining and railroad entrepreneur.

And these three were vehemently against the Federal Reserve.

So I believe that Morgan somehow enticed them on board.

A floating palace made in voyage, Morgan's grandest canvas yet.

As the Guggenheim and Straus aboard her when she slipped the pier.

And legend swears that everyone opposed the plan, they shipped that year.

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A floating palace made in voyage Morgan's grandest canvas yet.

As the Guggenheim and Straits aboard her when she slipped the pier.

And legend swears that everyone opposed the plan they shipped that year.

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A floating palace made in voyage, Morgan's grandest canvas yet.

Asked the Guggenheim and Straus aboard her when she slipped the pier.

And legend swears that everyone opposed the plan, they shipped that year.

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Yes, thank you, thank you.

Because that was going to be my, the conspiracy surrounding the whole Titanic sinking is that there was actually three prominent passengers, John Jacob Astor IV, Benjamin Guggenheim, and Isidore Strauss, while, of course, J.P. Morgan.

I think J.P. Morgan was scheduled to be on it, but then he decided not to go on it.

Seems to be a pattern of things when some of the important people just don't show up for work.

They kiss each other in frenzied grief.

John B. Thayer, George Widener, Henry Harris, Benjamin Guggenheim, Charles M. Hayes, Mr. and Mrs. Strauss, move among these people, talk to them and try to reassure them.

There are other women besides Mrs. Strauss who will not leave their husbands.

These women clasp each other's hands.

They smile.

They understand.

Mr. Guggenheim and his secretary are in full dress.

If we are going to call on Neptune, we will go dressed as gentlemen, they laughingly say.

... that are attached to this, to this voyage, even as passengers.

Yeah, I mean, particularly in first class you've got people like, uh, John Jacob Astor, richest man in the world, um, Benjamin Guggenheim, these very ...

I mean, not just, you know, they're, they're millionaires at the time.

They are the equivalent of today's billionaires.

... uh, which goes back to some extent to a ship that sank some years earlier, the Birkenhead, where there had been this very kind of noble, uh, all these kind of military men had sort of stood to attention while their wives and children were evacuated from the boat and then went down heroically, I think.

So they had this idea of like it's very important, and I think a lot of certainly in theory, uh, and, and there were upper-class men.

There were, there were first-class men, for example, Benjamin Guggenheim, who either refused a place in a lifeboat because they said a, a woman should go before them-

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So, uh-

Well, Benjamin Guggenheim, he was...

Well, no, it wasn't Benjamin Guggenheim.

I have to look it up.

It wasn't him.