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    The John Birch Society (JBS) is an American right-wing political advocacy group. Founded in 1958, it is anti-communist, supports social conservatism, and...
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  • ten days after the war ended. Birch was posthumously awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal. The John Birch Society (JBS), an American anti-communist...
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  • "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues", also known as "Talkin' John Birch Society Blues" and "Talkin' John Birch Blues", is a protest song and talking blues...
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  • Robert W. Welch Jr. (category John Birch Society members)
    used his wealth to sponsor anti-communist causes. He co-founded the John Birch Society (JBS), an American right-wing political advocacy group, in 1958 and...
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    Soviet Negro Republic (category John Birch Society)
    proposals were not official party policy. During the 1960s, the far-right John Birch Society linked the burgeoning civil rights movement for Black Americans to...
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    film The Green Berets (1968). In 1960, he joined the anti-communist John Birch Society, but quit after the organization denounced fluoridation of water supplies...
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  • social scientists in the 1950s regarding small groups such as the John Birch Society in the United States, and since then it has been applied to similar...
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    his wife, Libby, his assignment was to infiltrate the anticommunist John Birch Society and report his findings to the FBI. At some time in the late 1950s...
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    Senate from Orange County, California. He was also a member of the John Birch Society. In 1972 he was the candidate for President of the United States of...
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  • became Koch Industries and was one of the founding members of the John Birch Society. Mary Robinson Koch (1907–1990), wife of Fred C. and eponym of the...
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  • John Birch may refer to: John Birch (soldier) (1615–1691), English politician and soldier John Birch (died 1735) (c. 1666–1735), nephew of the soldier...
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    William F. Buckley Jr. (category Member of the Mont Pelerin Society)
    and Birchers, Buckley told someone who subscribed to both the National Review and the John Birch Society: "I have had more discussions about the John Birch...
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  • The New American (category John Birch Society)
    wholly owned subsidiary of the John Birch Society. The magazine was created in 1985 from the merger of two John Birch Society publications: American Opinion...
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  • unworthy of the conservative title. Therefore, they attacked the John Birch Society, George Wallace, and anti-Semites. Buckley's goal was to increase...
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  • Granville Knight (category John Birch Society members)
    physician and anti-communist activist, who was a leading member of the John Birch Society in California. Knight was born in New York City. He received an A...
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    Guy Banister (category John Birch Society members)
    in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He was an avid anti-communist, alleged member of the Minutemen, the John Birch Society, Louisiana Committee on...
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    "John Birch Society founded, Dec. 9, 1958". POLITICO. Retrieved 2020-09-14. Becker, Bill (1961-04-13). "WELCH, ON COAST, ATTACKS WARREN; John Birch Society...
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    New World Order conspiracy theory (category Fictional secret societies)
    advocacy groups with a paleoconservative world-view, such as the John Birch Society, disseminated a multitude of conspiracy theories in the 1960s claiming...
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  • Gary Allen (category John Birch Society members)
    University, Long Beach. He was a prominent member of Robert W. Welch Jr.'s John Birch Society, of which he was a spokesman. He contributed to magazines such as...
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    Walter Knott (category John Birch Society members)
    like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. Knott was also a member of the John Birch Society and sponsored its Orange County chapter. Through his time as a struggling...
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    antichrist. Hargis' interpretation was taken up by a member of the John Birch Society, Marjorie Jensen, who wrote a pamphlet claiming the symbol was equivalent...
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    Beck is merely echoing the decades-old "right-wing extremism" of the John Birch Society. According to Wilentz, Beck's "version of history" places him in a...
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  • congressman from Georgia Larry McDonald was elected second president of the John Birch Society upon the retirement of first president, Robert Welch. Shortly after...
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  • Zenith Applied Philosophy (category John Birch Society)
    combination of Scientology, Eastern mysticism and the ideas of the American John Birch Society. There was extensive overlap between the organisation and the Tax...
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  • Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., a libel action he brought against the John Birch Society in 1969 after it accused him of being part of a Communist conspiracy...
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    Westbrook Pegler (category John Birch Society)
    writing appeared sporadically in publications that included the John Birch Society's American Opinion. James Westbrook Pegler was born on August 2, 1894...
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  • W. Cleon Skousen (category John Birch Society members)
    associated with the John Birch Society. In addition to his role as a notable anti-communist and supporter of the John Birch Society, Skousen had a significant...
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  • William Potter Gale (category John Birch Society members)
    minister, but he eventually founded his own church. He also joined the John Birch Society. In 1964, he opened a securities firm in Glendale, California, and...
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  • Robert Welch University (category John Birch Society)
    Robert Welch University (RWU) was an online university based in Appleton, Wisconsin. It offered a program in U.S. History, American Studies, Latin, Ancient...
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    faction of the Republican Party. Shell received support from the John Birch Society, who he had advocated welcoming within the party. Democrats took a...
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