Part Two: How The John Birch Society Invented The Modern Far Right
Behind the Bastards
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The Good News About Welch's Plan to Infect the Minds of College Students
Welch was met by stiff resistance from all sides for trying to infect the minds of impressionable children. The early 1960s were also a period in which the mainstream media increasingly turned its eyes towards the John Birch Society. Maybell's investigation had sort of opened the floodgates in early 1961.
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