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Part Two: How The John Birch Society Invented The Modern Far Right

Behind the Bastards

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Getting It in There, Dan. I Would Love This

The campaign to impeach Earl Warren fizzled out without any sort of success around 1962. But fewer over the John Birch Society sparked calls in Congress for an investigation into the group. "They're weird as hell," says Dan Rivers, a member of the society and former congressman from California. 'I think one of them actually jumped out of a window whenever he was caught at a 24 person communist orgy'

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