When I first became interested in economics back around 2003 Bill Still was one of the first people I came across. I watched the Money Masters and followed his Youtube channel regularly.....
As time went on I began to realize that he seems to focus on more sensationalist and historical elements. His explanations usually focus on conspiratorial claims and draw inferences and extrapolate rather than base claims on specific facts.
The Money Masters points out that a lot of wealthy bankers and a Congressman went to an Island and had a secret meeting. Its inference is that they must be doing bad things, yet we're never really told what those things are. We get a singular perspective and assumption based on Mr. Stills reading of the events.
in 2013 I saw this video that he created and my suspicions were confirmed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFMGqQKw12I
As far as Jekyll Island. I think it's more likely that the heads of all the big banking families were called together because they all had an enormous amount of self-interest in assuring that whatever the Federal Government decided to do, that their interests were represented. Given they were clearly the most educated on the subject it only made sense that any bill that would overhaul the system would include people who were knowledgeable.
Did those families walk away with a good deal? Sure they did, but that doesn't mean that the system overall didn't benefit as well, and it did, the evidence lay in the fact that the US, under that system has become the most powerful prosperous nation in the history of the world. Claims about the abject failure of the Fed conveniently ignore this fact.
Are the Fed and the system created around it perfect? NO, of course not. There is a lot that can be improved, but until we stop listening to people like Mr. Still and start really trying to understand how money works nothing will change. In fact, most people suffer from the Dunning Kruger effect when it comes to economics. They watch Bill Still or read "The Creature from Jekyll Island" and think they know all they need to know about government, banking and the Fed, when in reality, to know NOTHING would be better than listening to Bill Still and Edward Griffon (the same guy that thinks that cancer is a hoax).
If you want to really understand modern money, I suggest you start with basic accounting. If you don't understand basic accounting, you'll NEVER understand how modern money works.
Cheers.