charles edward ringling owned ringling brothers and barnum & bailey circus.
who owns ringling brothers and barnum & bailey circus?
charles edward ringling
after leaving the cia, george worked as a consultant for a variety of international interests, from european aristocrats to defense contractor halliburton to the ringling bros. and barnum & bailey circus. for the circus, george was involved in the defection and recruitment of performers and athletes from totalitarian countries. later, work george did for feld entertainment drew him back into the headlines. allegedly, george aided in the felds' efforts to spy on critics of the family and its circus. george testified in court that he worked as a consultant for kennethe feld, and for the ringling brothers and barnum & bailey circus, in the early 1990's, work which included surveillance of a journalist who was writing about the feld family, and of animal rights groups such as peta.
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ringling bros. and barnum & bailey circus, also known as the ringling bros. circus, ringling bros. or simply ringling was an american traveling circus company billed as the greatest show on earth. it and its predecessor shows ran from 1871 to 2017. known as ringling bros. and barnum & bailey combined shows, the circus started in 1919 when the barnum & bailey's greatest show on earth, a circus created by p. t. barnum and james anthony bailey, was merged with the ringling bros. world's greatest shows. the ringling brothers had purchased barnum & bailey ltd. following bailey's death in 1906, but ran the circuses separately until they were merged in 1919.
ringling bros. and barnum & bailey circus