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Part One: Charles Koch: The Luke Skywalker of Rich People

Behind the Bastards

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Is Dwight Eisenhower a Communist?

The John Birch Society demanded the US retire from the United Nations and ordered flier circulated in Dallas, Texas. Fred Koch suspected that welfare was a conspiracy to fill American cities with black people who would then carry out a race war to exterminate white people. The Kennedy assassination was not great for the reputations of the members of the John Birch Society or for Robert Welch.

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