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Today we explore the #history of Fort Knox, America's most important gold depository and occasional archive of vital historical documents.

Chapters
00:00 Where does the United States keep all of its Gold?
00:53 Describing the volt of the United States Bullion Depository
02:02 Why America’s gold was moved to Fort Knox
02:53 Why you can’t visit Fort Knox
03:14 Construction of United States Bullion Depository
04:11 The complicated process of moving gold to the Bullion Depository
05:01 Why the Library of Congress moved vital American documents to the Bullion Depository
06:12 United States Bullion Depository during the cold war
07:24 Why even Presidents don’t visit Fort Knox
08:45 The Bullion Depository and Fort Knox in popular media


IT’S HISTORY Weekly tales of American Urban Decay as presented by your host Ryan Socash.

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» CREDIT
Scriptwriter Neve Brown,
Editor Sebastian Ripoll
Host Ryan Socash

» NOTICE
Some images may be used for illustrative purposes only always reflecting the accurate time frame and content. Events of factual error / mispronounced word/spelling mistakes retractions will be published in this section.

Clarification: the incident described at 9:00 was not carried out by the U.S. Mint Police.