Posted on 08/24/2021 6:52:08 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
REPORT ON JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY—Based Upon Data in FBI Files (614 pages):
https://archive.org/details/john-birch-society-report-october-2020-614pp/mode/2up
John Birch Society 6-Decade Attack Upon Our Civil Rights Movement
https://archive.org/details/jbs-6-decade-attack-upon-our-civil-rights-movement-and-its-leaders/mode/2up
Racism and the JBS (283 pages)
https://archive.org/details/0906-combined-pdf-racism-and-the-john-birch-society-283-pages/mode/2up
The last link (Racism and the JBS) includes a massive Chronology which shows HUNDREDS of links between the JBS and racial and religious bigots -— and also shows how the JBS promoted racist arguments and stereotypes.
For such a great debater, how did he let Gore Vidal cause him to crumble.
The people you are describing are wildly different than the ones I encountered.
I have no explanation of it.
My mom (1937-1990) used to rail against the “birchers”
I never understood why and wasn’t curious enough to look into it. She was a faithful follower of the main stream news.
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