b'lished the FDA press release, with dam-agingheadlinessuchasQuacksAre Still Fooling You, Government Bans Medical Fakery, Phony Medical De-vicesBanned,andJudgeClassified Health Machine as Hoax. Nothing in the Consent Decree said any such thing! And no judge or jury had ever found the Foundations devices to be fakery or a hoax. But, the FDAutterly devoid ofFRED J. HARTany sense of honordestroyed the Foun-dations business, just as it has done towhen the chiropractor pleaded that he countless other businesses it does not likewanted to use it for research and only during the nearly 70 years since. research, he finally yielded. FDAtoIn MemoryOf.Thatwasenoughforthe The Birth of the NHF spring their trap; and soon thereafterDavid J. GetoffIt was in that year 1954, and with aMr.Hartwasbackincourtwhere, state of mind of increasing fury directedamong many other things, the FDA at- Doreen Rileyat an FDA that had ruthlessly betrayedtorney mentioned the NHFs harsh crit-his trust in the agency, that Mr. Harticism of the FDA as a reason to stop Mr.Marjorie Fern Armstrongfirst conceived the idea of creating aHart. But the contempt-of-court action non-profithealth-freedomorganiza- meant something far worse than that,Lisa Tullytion to take on the FDA and protect or- it meant no more devices; and without dinary citizens from its malicious andthe devices available and at hand, hisDr. Charles Bensinept exercise of coercive power. beloved Eva Hart soon died, in January In January 1955, the National Health1962. Liberty CarrollFederation was incorporated in Califor- Withbothgriefandangerinhis nia as a non-profit organization devotedheart, Mr. Hart dissolved the ElectronicA Caring Memorialtoadvancinghealthfreedom.SoonMedical Foundation and devoted all ofRemember your loved ones by serv-thereafter, NHF received recognitionhis attention and energies to the Na- ing the living. Your loving memorial from the Internal Revenue Service as ational Health Federation. Sixty yearswill preserve the freedom to choose 501(c)(4) public-advocacy organization.later,theNHFisstillgoingstrong,for your children and grandchildren.Fred Hart became NHFs first Presidentthanks to its dedicated Founder, mem- The NHF is an organization devotedand thereafter played a leading role inbers, donors, and other supporters. to truth. Thank you for caring!its work until his death in March 1976.Withthere-discoveredscrapbook The NHF has remained active ever sincefullofoldandtatterednewspaperTHIS GIFT IS IN MEMORY OFand not only continued Fred Harts leg- clippingsaboutDr.Abramsandhis________________________________acy and goals but expanded upon them. electronicmedicaldevices,theroots Unfortunately, though, there was aof NHF have been stretched back toYOUR NAME_________________________________________ tragic interlude. Almost eight years after1922-1923 when Fred Hart first met Dr.ADDRESS____________________________________________the Consent Decree had been signed be- Abrams in order to save his preciousCITY _________________________________________________tween the Electronic Medical Founda- wife Evas life, and then embarked on a tion and the FDA, the agency hired anmedical voyage that would lead directlySTATE__________________________ ZIP_ _________________undercover agenta chiropractor fromto the founding of the National HealthWould you like us to send you anReno, Nevadato travel to CaliforniaFederation. acknowledgement card? Yes Noto persuade Mr. Hart to sell him anHopefully, NHFs mission will oneMake payment through PayPal, call in Oscilloclast. If this agent could makeday soon be accomplishedin yearswith your credit card, or mail check to:the purchase, then the FDA could andmaybe,notdecadesorawholecen-would argue that Mr. Hart had soldturyand everyone will soon be freeNATIONALHEALTHFEDERATIONthe device in interstate commerce andto choose and do as they wish for theirP.O. Box 288 thus violated the Consent Decree. WithhealthandthehealthoftheirlovedMossyrock, WA 98564 USAone such device at his home in Salinas,ones. Phone: 1-360-325-8692 Mr. Hart at first refused to sell it; butFax:1-360-496-6039H ealtHF reedomN ews /F all2022 9NHF_40-3_Linda_11-25-2022.indd 9 11/25/22 8:02 AM'