In 1963, US President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 11110, a move that quietly challenged one of the most powerful systems in the world — the Federal Reserve. The order allowed the US Treasury to issue silver-backed notes, breaking the Federal Reserve’s monopoly over America’s money supply. For the first time, the government was taking back control of its own currency. But just months after those notes began circulating, JFK was assassinated in Dallas. His successor, Lyndon B. Johnson,