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In Indianapolis, retired Boston candy manufacturer Robert H.W. Welch,
Jr., establishes the John Birch Society, a right-wing organization
dedicated to fighting what it perceives to be the extensive infiltration
of communism into American society. Welch named the society in honor of
John Birch, considered by many to be the first American casualty in the
struggle against communism. In 1945, Birch, a Baptist missionary and
U.S. Army intelligence specialist, was killed by Chinese communists in
the northern province of Anhwei.
The John Birch Society, initially founded with only 11 members, had by
the early 1960s grown to a membership of nearly 100,000 Americans and
received annual private contributions of several million dollars. The
society revived the spirit of McCarthyism, claiming in unsubstantiated
accusations that a vast communist conspiracy existed within the U.S.
government. Among others, the organization implicated President Dwight
D. Eisenhower and Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren. However,
after the debacle of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s public hearings in the
early 1950s, America became more wary of radical anti-communism, and few
of the society’s sensational charges were taken seriously by mainstream
American society. The John Birch Society remains active today, and its
members seek “to expose a semi-secret international cabal whose members
sit in the highest places of influence and power worldwide.ö
73 de Scott KF5JRV
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