Wrapped in the Flag (48 page)

30
. “Kerner Says Birch Society Dangerous,”
Chicago Tribun
e, February 6, 1962.

1
.   Studs Terkel, foreword, John Howard Griffin,
Black Like Me
(San Antonio, TX: Wings Press, 2004), 12.

2
.   “Daley Assails Plan to Move Negroes Here,”
Chicago Tribune
, May 3, 1962.

3
.   Robert Welch,
Two Revolutions at Once
(Belmont, MA: John Birch Society, c. 1960), 19.

4
.   Robert Welch,
John Birch Society Bulletin
, September 1963, in
The White Book of the John Birch Society for 1963
(Belmont, MA: John Birch Society, 1964), 79.

5
.   Roy Reed, “Birch Society Is Growing in the South,”
New York Times
, November 8, 1965, front page.

6
.   “Who Was James Meredith?,” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum,
http://www.jfklibrary.org
.

7
.   “Though the Heavens Fall,”
Time
, October 12, 1962.

8
.   John W. Finney, “Walker Challenges Rusk and Rostow on Loyalty,”
New York Times
, April 6, 1962, front page.

9
.   Ibid.

10
. Jonathan M. Schoenwald,
A Time for Choosing: The Rise of Modern American Conservatism
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 117.

11
. “Though the Heavens Fall,”
Time
, October 12, 1962.

12
. Robert Welch,
John Birch Society Bulletin
, December 1962, in
The White Book of the John Birch Society for 1962
(Belmont, MA: John Birch Society, 1963), 26.

13
. “New Note in Dixie,”
Time
, January 25, 1963.

14
. “They Fight a Fire That Won’t Go Out,”
Life
, May 17, 1963. Photos by Charles Moore.

15
. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002), 963–68.

16
. Robert Welch,
John Birch Society Bulletin
, June 1963, in
The White Book of the John Birch Society for 1963
, 14–15.

17
. Ibid., 16.

18
. 1963 March on Washington, National Archives,
http://www.usnationalarchives.org
.

19
. Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream,” August 28, 1963,
YouTube.com
.

1
.   Lawrence Wright,
In the New World: Growing Up with America from the Sixties to the Eighties
(New York: Vintage Books, 1989), 16.

2
.   Robert Welch,
Interim Bulletin
, August 30, 1963, Section D. Civil Rights, in
The White Book of the John Birch Society for 1963
(Belmont, MA: John Birch Society, 1964), 3.

3
.   Despite what I thought, the thirteenth century has been described as the high point of the Middle Ages by a number of scholars. One major work on the subject is James Joseph Walsh,
The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries
(Charleston, SC: Nabu Press, 2011, orig. 1907).

4
.   Robert Welch,
John Birch Society Bulletin
, September 1963, in
The White Book of the John Birch Society for 1963
, 1, 9–10.

5
.   Ibid., 12.

6
.   Ibid., 45.

7
.   Ibid., 61.

8
.  
Ibid., 60.

9
.   Ibid., 82.

10
. Ibid., 78.

11
. The Highlander Center,
http://highlandercenter.org
.

12
. Welch,
John Birch Society Bulletin
, September 1963, 86–87.

13
. Ibid., 23.

14
. “2000 Hail Welch as ‘Great Patriot,’”
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
, September 24, 1963.

15
. Donald A. Cowan, “Letter to the President,” November 15, 1963,
University of Dallas Crusader
2 (1964): 44.

16
. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965), 1023–25.

17
. Gerald Blain,
The Kennedy Detail: JFK’s Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence
(New York: Gallery Books, 2010), 156.

18
. Kent Biffle, “Incident-Free Day Urged for JFK Visit,”
Dallas Morning News
, November 17, 1963.

19
. “Testimony of Mrs. John Bowden Connally, Jr.,” Warren Commission Hearings, vol. IV, p. 147, Assassination Archives and Research Center,
http://www.aarclibrary.org
.

20
. KLIF (Dallas), November 22, 1963,
The JFK Assassination: As It Happened
,
http://www.jfk-assassination-as-it-happened.blogspot.com
.

21
. William Manchester,
The Death of a President: November 1963
(New York: Harper & Row, 1967), 48–49.

22
. Ibid., 48.

23
. Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days
, 753.

24
. Wright,
In the New World
, 29–48.

25
. Bernard Weissman, chair, American Fact-Finding Committee, “Welcome Mr. Kennedy to Dallas,”
Dallas Morning News
, November 22, 1963.

26
. Larry Grove, “Why Did It Happen Here? Residents of Dallas Ask” and “City Still Stunned After JFK’s Death,”
Dallas Morning News
, November 24, 1963, in
The Assassination Story: Newspaper Clippings from Two Dallas Dailies
(Dallas: American Eagle Publishers, 1964), 9.

27
. “Suspected Killer Defected to Russia in ’59,”
Dallas Morning News
, November 23, 1963, in
The Assassination Story
, 5.

28
. “Decker Says: Police Did Everything Possible,”
Dallas Morning News
, November 25, 1963.

29
. Robert Welch,
John Birch Society Bulletin
, December 1963, in
The White Book of the John Birch Society for 1963
, 8.

30
. Facts about the Warren Commission:
History Matters
,
http://www.history-matters.com
.

31
. “Wanted for Treason Handbill,” in
The Warren Commission Report: Report of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
(New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1992), 298.

32
. Ibid., 296–97, 345, 369.

1
.   In James Reston, “Republicans Seek to Divorce Welch,”
Boston Herald
, February 7, 1962.

2
.   Ibid.

3
.   In William F. Buckley Jr., “Goldwater, the John Birch Society, and Me,”
Commentary
, March 2008.

4
.   Lyndon B. Johnson, “Let Us Continue,” November 27, 1963, at Voices of Democracy: The U.S. Oratory Project, (text)
www.umd.edu
or (audio)
www.americanrhetoric.com
.

5
.  
The Confederacy
and
The Union
were two popular record albums from Time/Life.

6
.   John B. Judis,
William F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988), 138–39.

7
.  
Barry Goldwater,
The
Conscience of a Conservative
(LaVergne, TN: Bottom of Hill Publishing, 2010), 26–27.

8
.   For background on these organizations, see Arnold Forster and Benjamin R. Epstein,
Danger on the Right: The Attitudes, Personnel and Influence of the Radical Right and Extreme Conservatives
(New York: Random House, 1964), 115–64.

9
.   On the Christian Crusade: Ibid., 68–86.

10
. Pamela Ebert Flattau et al.,
The National Defense Act of 1958: Selected Outcomes
(Washington, DC: Science and Technology Policy Institute, March 2006), Institute for Defense Analyses,
http://www.ida.org
.

11
. William F. Buckley Jr.,
God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of “Academic Freedom”
(Chicago: Regnery Press, 1951).

12
. Judis,
William F. Buckley, Jr
., 59–62, 212fn (baptismal sponsor).

13
. William F. Buckley Jr.,
Cruising Speed: A Documentary
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971), 73–74.

14
. Carl T. Bogus,
Buckley: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism
(New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2011), 181.

15
. Ibid., 183.

16
. Robert Welch,
The Historical Significance of Robert Welch
(Appleton, WI: John Birch Society, 1993), 146.

17
. Judis,
William F. Buckley, Jr
., 194.

18
. Welch,
The Historical Significance of Robert Welch
, 151.

19
. Forster and Epstein,
Danger on the Right
, 151–61.

20
. Ibid., 152.

21
. States’ Rights Party: Donald T. Critchlow,
The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Made Political History
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 47.

22
. Forster and Epstein,
Danger on the Right
, 248–49.

23
. Judis,
William F. Buckley, Jr
., 195–96.

24
. Ibid., 196.

25
. Buckley in
National Review
, April 22, 1961, quoted in ibid., 196–97.

26
. Ibid., 197.

27
. Bogus,
Buckley
, 189.

28
. Ibid., 191–193.

29
. Welch,
The Historical Significance of Robert Welch
, 191.

30
. Bogus,
Buckley
, 192.

31
. Skull and Bones: Judis,
William F. Buckley, Jr
., 76, 368, 414.

32
. Enrico Peppe, “IC’s Top 25 Philosophical & Ideological Conservative Books: #18,
The Conservative Affirmation
by Willmoore Kendall,”
Intellectual Conservative
, March 17, 2004,
http://www.intellectualconservative.com
.

33
. George H. Nash, “Willmoore Kendall: Conservative Iconoclast (II),”
Modern Age
(Summer 1975): 236–48, Intercollegiate Studies Institute,
http://www.mmisis.org
.

34
. Willmoore Kendall and George W. Cary,
The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition
(Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1970), 94.

35
. Alexander Keyssar,
The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
(New York: Basic Books, 2000), 4–7.

36
. 1790 census,
http://www.census.gov
.

37
. Kendall and Cary,
The
Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition
, 9–12.

38
. Willmoore Kendall, “The Civil Rights Movement and the Coming Constitutional Crisis,” paper presented at Southern Political Science Association meeting, November 14, 1964,
http://www.mmisi.org
.

39
.
Leo Paul S. deAlvarez, “The Missing Passage of the Vanderbilt Lectures,”
Willmoore Kendall: Maverick of American Conservatives
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), 145.

40
. Forster and Epstein,
Danger on the Right
, 254.

41
. “Welch Would Curb U.S. Voting Rights,”
Boston Herald
, July 28, 1965.

42
. My parents’ ideas were not original. See Keyssar,
The Right to Vote
, for a long list of reasons commonly given to limit suffrage.

43
. Ari Berman, “The GOP War on Voting: In a Campaign Supported by the Koch Brothers, Republicans Are Working to Prevent Millions of Democrats from Voting Next Year,”
Rolling Stone
, September 15, 2011.

44
. Ibid.

45
. Ibid.

1
.   Robert Welch,
The Blue Book of the John Birch Society
(Belmont, MA: John Birch Society, 1961), 58.

2
.   “Fr. Thomas Matthias Cain, O.P.,” Find A Grave,
http://www.findagrave.com
.

3
.   Thomas Aquinas: New Advent,
http://www.newadvent.org
.

4
.   Catholic Answers,
http://www.catholic.com
.

5
.   Laurene K. Conner,
No Man’s Voice Should Sound an Uncertain Note: A Focus on Latin America
(Inglewood, CA: Catholic Fact Research Association, 1964), reviewed in
Wanderer
, January 30, 1964.

6
.   Stillwell John Conner, “The Catholic Church and the John Birch Society,”
Ramparts
(Spring 1964): 16–25.

7
.   The Modernist heresy: Peter De Rosa,
Vicars of Christ: The Dark Side of the Papacy
(New York: Crown Publishers, 1988), 261–69.

8
.   Welch,
The Blue Book
, 59.

9
.   Laurene K. Conner,
The New Age Movement: A Dark and Hostile Agent—A Terrible Reality
(Hudson, WI: Wanderer Forum Foundation, 1991); Laurene K. Conner,
Pax Christi: The Spider’s Web
(Marshfield, WI: Wanderer Forum Foundation, 1988).

10
. Conner,
No Man’s Voice Should Sound an Uncertain Note
.

11
. History of the Wanderer Forum Foundation:
http://www.wandererforum.org/history
.

12
. Laurene K. Conner,
A Crumbling Edifice: Consciousness-Raising and the Erosion of Religious Life
(Hudson, WI: Wanderer Forum Foundation, 1989), 1. Other works by Laurene K. Conner:
Networking for Radical Social Change
, 1988;
His Vision and His Hope for the Faithful in the United States
, 1989;
An Unholy Alliance: Catholic Educators and Marxist Revolution
, 1990;
Turbulent Waves of Error
, 1992; and
The Popes of Conciliar Renewal
, 2003.