The World of the John Birch Society: Conspiracy, Conservatism, and the Cold War

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267 Index Acheson, Dean, 33, 43, 141, 166 Adenauer, Konrad, 138 advertising anti-Goldwater, 74, 100, 212n3 for anti-McCarthy film, 181 Packard’s exposé of, 178–79 advertising by JBS, 129, 151 anti-Khrushchev, 147 on JFK assassination, 84–89, 135 Air Force, U.S., 7, 47, 161, 162 antibrainwashing training by, 69 Goldwater as reservist in, 68, 92 Meredith as veteran of, 117 Aitchess, A., 87 Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, 123 Alfonso XIII (king of Spain), 159 Alford, Dale, 44, 51, 52 Algeria, generals’ revolt against de Gaulle, 42, 46, 48, 51, 59, 65 Alice in Wonderland. See Carroll, Lewis Allen, Gary, 131–32, 135 America First Party, 26 American Bar Association, 40, 115–16 American Conservative Union (ACU), 102 American Council of Christian Churches, 4 American Independent Party, 105 “Americanists,” 1, 76–77 Goldwater as greatest of, 79, 215n28 “Americanists, The” (Time), 21, 37 American Jewish Congress, 62 American Nazi Party, 28, 30, 66, 198n62, 206n77, 211n139 American Opinion (magazine), 8, 11, 107, 155, 231n3 on Castro, 152 Page numbers in bold refer to illustrations. Abbreviations used in the index are those given in parentheses in main entries; for example, the John Birch Society is referred to as “JBS” throughout. on civil rights movement, 124, 130, 131–32, 135 Cold War analysis in, 157–58 on criticisms of CASE, 15 film reviews in, 161, 181, 240n114, 248n76 on folk music, 30 on Goldwater defeat, 101–2 on Illuminati, 183 JFK assassination and, 83, 84–88, 217n71 National Review connections to, 77–78 readership of, 187, 213n9 on Vietnam War, 158–63 and Walker affair, 43, 52, 56 and Warren impeachment campaign, 113 Welch’s letter to Khrushchev in, 143–46 American Security Council (ASC), 199n70 Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), 26, 93–94, 102 Anarchy–U.S.A. (JBS film), 133 Anderson, Thomas J., 104, 147, 225n34 Andrews, T. Coleman, 8, 37, 185 anticolonialism, 158 anticommunism. See communism, enslavement of, and entries following Anti-Defamation League (ADL) anti-JBS address to, 155 Epstein-Forster report for, 1–2, 164 anti-Semitism, 63–64, 71 of Oliver, 63–64, 185, 217n71, 249n99 as rejected by Welch/JBS, 63–64, 109, 183, 185 anti-Vietnam War movement, 136, 162–64 Aptheker, Herbert, 163 268   The World of the John Birch Society Are You Listening, Uncle Sam? (JBS radio program), 187 Armstrong, Newton, Jr., 167–68 Army, U.S., 68, 69, 117–18. See also “ProBlue ” program; Walker, Edwin A., and entry following Army-McCarthy hearings, 23, 55, 181, 248n74 Ashbrook, John, 96, 102 Asia, communism in, 140–41, 158, 174–75. See also China; Korean War; Vietnam; Vietnam War Atkinson, Brooks, 25–26 atomic bomb, testing of, 141, 240n119. See also nuclear weapons, use of Augsburg, West Germany, Twenty-Fourth U.S. Infantry Division based in strategic location of, 54 Walker’s activities at, 13, 26–27, 42, 43–46, 51 See also “Pro-Blue” program; Walker, Edwin A., as JBS “indoctrinator” Bailey, John M., 82 Baldwin, James, 124, 125 Bao Dai, 159 Barnett, Ross, 117–18, 119, 121, 126, 128, 246n42 Barruel, Augustin, 183 Bartlett, E. L. “Bob,” 55, 205n57 Batista, Fulgencio, 137, 151, 154 Bay of Pigs, 45, 83, 167, 174 as anticommunist strategy, 86–87, 152, 237n73 Cuban missile crisis and, 57, 156–57 Eisenhower’s secret plans for, 151 fiction written after, 66–68 JBS analysis of, 86–87, 152–54 Bell, Daniel, ed., The Radical Right, 169, 193n40, 213n7 Benson, George S., 4, 47, 60, 64. See also Harding College Benson, Reed, 180 Berlin, planned postwar summit on, 15, 146, 149, 238n92 CASE campaign against, 15, 146–47, 149–51 as derailed by U-2 incident, 15, 150–51 See also West Berlin, occupation of Berry, Abner (Daily Worker), 128 Betancourt, Romulo, 83 “big government.” See government intrusion/ interference Birch, John, 7–8, 9, 192n25 Welch’s biography of, 8, 43, 52, 77, 138 Birmingham, Alabama church bombing in, 89 civil rights violence in, 122, 123–24, 126, 129, 133, 136 Bismarck, Otto von, 184 Bissell, Richard, 154 black nationalist movement, 108, 123, 131, 135 black power movement, 14, 130–35, 230n113 JBS and, 131–33 and Watts riots, 130–32, 167, 229n105 Blake, Gene (Los Angeles Times), 20, 37, 40 Blue Book of the John Birch Society, The (Welch), 3, 181, 236n66 on “big government,” 11, 76–77, 165 on civil rights, 109–10 on Cold War origins, 138–39 criticism/mockery of, 16–17, 20, 29, 34 on Goldwater, 96...