12-05-2009, 05:44 AM
Interesting blurb on the John Birch Society from About.com:
http://atheism.about.com/library/glossar...ociety.htm
John Birch Society members included high profile sociopaths: HL Hunt & Clint Murchison (both provided funding), Nelson Bunker Hunt (HL Hunt's son), Edwin Walker, Congressman John Rousselot.
I have no doubt that they were involved with the events of November 22, 1963.
"John Birch Society
Profile:
Name: John Birch Society
Founded: December 9, 1958 in Indianapolis
History:
The John Birch Society was, for a long time, the principle radical right and anti-communist organization in the United States. Founded by Robert Welch, a retired candymaker from Massachusetts, the group was initially based upon a monologue delivered by Welch in a hotel room to a number of like-minded people. This monologue was later transcribed The Blue Book of the John Birch Society, given to each new member. The name of the Society comes from John Birch, an American intelligence officer killed by Communists in China in August, 1945.
Unlike many other groups the John Birch Society had heavy backing from industrialist and corporations, particularly oil companies and the defense industry. This money made the Society the best funded of all radical right organizations, allowing them to set up thousands of chapters across the country and, by 1963, having at least 80,000 members. As Sara Diamond's book wrote in her book Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States,
By 1963, corporations were spending an estimated $25 million per year on anticommunist literature. ...Some corporations circulated print and audio-visual materials produced by the John Birch Society; other corporations produced their own in-house literature. ...By the early 1960s, the Nation magazine reported that there was a minimum of 6,600 corporate-financed anticommunist broadcasts, carried by more than 1,300 radio and television stations at a total annual budget of about $20 million. ...Leading sponsors included Texas oil billionaire H.L. Hunt and Howard J. Pew of Sun Oil. The corporate sector's massive anticommunist propaganda campaigns created a favorable climate for the mobilization of activist groups like the John Birch Society. ..."
http://atheism.about.com/library/glossar...ociety.htm
John Birch Society members included high profile sociopaths: HL Hunt & Clint Murchison (both provided funding), Nelson Bunker Hunt (HL Hunt's son), Edwin Walker, Congressman John Rousselot.
I have no doubt that they were involved with the events of November 22, 1963.
"John Birch Society
Profile:
Name: John Birch Society
Founded: December 9, 1958 in Indianapolis
History:
The John Birch Society was, for a long time, the principle radical right and anti-communist organization in the United States. Founded by Robert Welch, a retired candymaker from Massachusetts, the group was initially based upon a monologue delivered by Welch in a hotel room to a number of like-minded people. This monologue was later transcribed The Blue Book of the John Birch Society, given to each new member. The name of the Society comes from John Birch, an American intelligence officer killed by Communists in China in August, 1945.
Unlike many other groups the John Birch Society had heavy backing from industrialist and corporations, particularly oil companies and the defense industry. This money made the Society the best funded of all radical right organizations, allowing them to set up thousands of chapters across the country and, by 1963, having at least 80,000 members. As Sara Diamond's book wrote in her book Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States,
By 1963, corporations were spending an estimated $25 million per year on anticommunist literature. ...Some corporations circulated print and audio-visual materials produced by the John Birch Society; other corporations produced their own in-house literature. ...By the early 1960s, the Nation magazine reported that there was a minimum of 6,600 corporate-financed anticommunist broadcasts, carried by more than 1,300 radio and television stations at a total annual budget of about $20 million. ...Leading sponsors included Texas oil billionaire H.L. Hunt and Howard J. Pew of Sun Oil. The corporate sector's massive anticommunist propaganda campaigns created a favorable climate for the mobilization of activist groups like the John Birch Society. ..."