The John Birch Society.(The Home Forum)

The Christian Science Monitor | February 3, 2000 | Copyright

The anticommunist John Birch Society was founded in 1958 by candy manufacturer Robert Welch. Mr. Welch named the society after John Birch, a missionary and United States Army captain who was killed by communist soldiers in China on Aug. 25, 1945.

Seeing Birch as an exemplar of the American spirit, Welch founded the society to promote limited constitutional government and "expose communists." More powerful than popular, Welch's network of regional chapters mobilized against communism, notably Cuba's Fidel Castro. While the group was isolationist, it supported the ...

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