Archie Henderson - Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right - A Guide to Archives

Description: The John Birch Society Collection consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings primarily from the Pasadena Star News and the Los Angeles Times from 1961. Book, The Blue Book of the John Birch Society, 4th printing, 1961, by Robert Welch. Book [online at https://ia800307.us.archive.org/13/items/TheBlueBook/MicrosoftWord-Document1.pdf], The John Birch Society in California Politics, by Bryan W. Stevens, 1966.

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8v986s6/entire_text/

[0307] John Birch Society. Dunn County, ND Records, 1963-1972, Coll. 10720 [sound recordings]

Location: State Historical Society of North Dakota State Archives, 612 E. Boulevard Avenue, Bismarck, ND 58505

Description: The collection consists of 58 sound recordings received by the Dunn County Chapter members for the monthly meetings, correspondence regarding book orders, pamphlets of special interest, and ephemera relating to new publications. The recordings include the John Birch Society Monthly Oral Message by Robert Welch and the John Birch Society Bi-Monthly Oral Message by Robert Welch (various dates, 1967-1970); Alger Hiss Y plus 20 (1968), The Cross & Sickle: The N.C.C. Expose, by Dr. Billy James Hargis (1965), Disarmament and the Phoenix Papers, by Billy James Hargis (1966), I See a Cat, by Tom Anderson, Our Council Speaks: Dr. Revilo Pendleton Oliver (1963), Our Council Speaks: Dr. Slobodan M. Draskovich (1963), and What is the John Birch Society? by Robert Welch and introduction by Rex Westerfield.

Websites with information:

http://history.nd.gov/archives/manuscripts/groupsorganizations.html

http://www.library.nd.gov/statedocs/HistoricalSociety/SHSND_mg.PDF

http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/319546468

http://www.worldcat.org/title/john-birch-society-of-dunn-county-audio-collection-1960-1969/oclc/319546468

http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/oclcsearch.html

Finding aid:

http://history.nd.gov/archives/manuscripts/inventory/10720.html

[0307a] John Birch Society pamphlets, 1928-1990 (bulk 1960-1970), MS.2014.001

Location: John Hay Library University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912

Description: The John Birch Society pamphlets consist primarily of pamphlets and reprints of magazine articles that reflect right-wing political views on such issues as the Civil Rights movement, the protests against the war in Vietnam during the 1960's, Communism, drug use, popular music and culture, pornography, race relations, and sex education in American schools. Most were published or reprinted by the John Birch Society. Other pamphlets were published by the American Jewish Committee (a pamphlet regarding Skinheads [Skinheads: Who They Are & What to Do When They Come to Town, by Kenneth S. Stern (New York, American Jewish Committee, 1990), online at http://www.ajc.org/atf/cf/%7B42D75369-D582-4380-8395-D25925B85EAF%7D/Skinheads.pdf]); the Daughters of Saint Paul, a Catholic publishing house in Boston, Massachusetts; Ensign Publishing Company in Salt Lake City, Utah, whose publications include works on religion and anti-Communism; and Athanasius Press, created by John H. DeTar, M.D., in order to publish his right-wing political writings.

Websites with information:

http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/870673968

http://www.worldcat.org/title/john-birch-society-pamphlets-1928-1990/oclc/870673968

http://library.brown.edu/collatoz/info.php?id=483

http://library.brown.edu/collatoz/cluster.php?cluster_id=3

http://library.brown.edu/collatoz/index.php

http://libguides.brown.edu/c.php?g=293906

https://search.library.brown.edu/catalog/b7089008

Finding aids:

http://library.brown.edu/riamco/xml2pdffiles/US-RPB-ms2014.001.pdf

http://www.riamco.org/render.php?eadid=US-RPB-ms2014.001&view=title

[0308] John Birch Society records, 1928-1990 (bulk 1965-1989), Ms.2013.003

Location: Brown University, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect St, Box A, Providence, RI 02912

Description: The John Birch Society records include audio-visual material such as audiocassettes, films, filmstrips, phonograph records, reel-to-reel tapes, slides and videocassettes; business records, correspondence, manuscripts, membership lists, office files, publications and subject files. The records also include a great deal of material regarding the Society's campaign against the ratification of the Panama Canal Treaties during the 1970's. Also includes printed copies of The Review of the News, The John Birch Bulletin, and American Opinion. Among the many national campaigns that the Society has organized or supported are the campaign to impeach Chief Justice Earl Warren in the 1960's, The Movement to Restore Decency (MOTOREDE), Promote Our Wonderful Energy Resources (POWER), the Support Your Local Police and Keep Them Independent! (SYLP) campaign, whose purpose was to oppose any state or federal control of local police departments, especially with regard to enforcing civil rights laws; Truth about Civil Turmoil (TACT), To Restore American Independence Now (TRAIN), Tax Reform Immediately (TRIM), and the National Right to Work Committee, which opposes compulsory union membership as a condition of employment. Series 7, Panama Canal Treaty campaign, 1970-1982. Subseries B, Publications and newspaper clippings, 1974-1982, consists chiefly of newspaper clippings, circa 1975, and other published materials regarding Panama and the Panama Canal Treaties, including copies of U.S. News and World Report, the Panama Canal Information Digest, the Alan Stang Report, American Opinion, the Birch Log, and the TRIM Bulletin. Series 8, Publications, 1928-1989, contains writings by Gary Allen, Ezra Taft Benson, Samuel L. Blumenfeld, Frank A. Capell, Jimmy Carter, William Henry Chamberlin, Stillwell John Conner, Ed Dieckmann, S.M. Draskovich, James J. Drummey, William E. Dunham, Dr. John Dunn, Sen. James O. Eastland, Rev. Francis E. Fenton, James Forman, John B. Gest, William B. Guidry, David Emerson Gumaer, Gary Handy, Thomas J. Hass, Tom Hayden, Timothy R. Heinan, William P. Hoar, Edward Hunter, William F. Jasper, James Kennedy, Andrew Lane, Robert W. Lee, Lawrence P. McDonald, William H. McIlhany, John F. McManus, Joseph Mehrten, Ralph Nader, Richard Nuccio, Ronald Reagan, John Rees, Bill Richardson, John H. Rousselot, John C. Satterfield, Robert Scheuttinger, Hans Sennholz, W. Cleon Skousen, Dan Smoot, Alan Stang, Floyd George Steele, Sen. Steven D. Symms, Charles Callan Tansill, James B. Utt, Harold Lord Varney, Willard S. Voit, George C. Wallace, and Wallis W. Wood. Series 9, Subject files, 1935-1990, contains files on American Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters; American Volunteer Groups: announcement regarding their seminar on counter-revolutionary warfare, 1971; America's Future, Inc.; Brazilian Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, Prosperity (TFP); Carto and Liberty Lobby; Citizens for Decent Literature; Civil Rights; The Communist Attack on the John Birch Society, by W. Cleon Skousen; Nord Davis; George C. Wallace newsletter and George Wallace Album; Barry Goldwater; D.B. Lewis; Liberty Lobby; Limited government; Movement to Restore Decency (MOTOCREDE); National Decency Reporter; National Right to Work Committee; New England Rally; Newspaper clippings on John Birch Society (JBS), Robert Welch, flag abuse, immigration, etc.; None Dare Call It Conspiracy; Posse Comitatus; Prayer in Schools (Warren); Willis Stone; Strom Thurmond reports to the people; Support Your Local Police; Truth About Civil Turmoil (TACT); To Restore American Independence Now (TRAIN); Tax Reform Immediately (TRIM); Think Tanks; John Wayne; and A.C. Wedemeyer.

Websites with information:

http://library.brown.edu/collatoz/index.php

http://library.brown.edu/collatoz/cluster.php?cluster_id=3