Episode 224 A Deeper Look at the Radical Right Wing Groups and Characters of the Early 60's Part 3 Wesley Swift and the Christian Identify Movement

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

Johnson, Murder, Dallas, Documentary, History, Government, Cia, Kennedy, Oswald, Ruby, Assassination, Mafia, Fbi, Coup D'etat, Society & Culture, President, Jfk

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🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Episode 224 is the third in a series of episodes where we begin to explore the radical right groups of the 1960's that clearly had great motive to murder president Kennedy. Emerging, alongside civil rights leaders, as a prime target for ire of white racists, anti-communists, and and a wide variety of other conservative groups, President Kennedy was a a target among them all. This aspect of the assassination and the connection of the radical right is little explored. We started&nbs...

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0:00.0	Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret.
0:06.3	I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.
0:24.4	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast.
0:41.3	Today's episode is episode 224, and it's a continuation of what we started several episodes back on our journey to understand the impact of the radical right on plans for the assassination of JFK.
0:48.3	And in today's episode, we begin to explore the Christian identity movement and its chief agitator in the United States, Reverend Wesley Swift, who founded the Church of Jesus Christ Christian.
0:56.9	In today's episode, we lay the fundamental groundwork of what the Christian identity
1:02.2	movement really was. So, without further ado, let's listen to episode 224 of JFK, The Enduring Secret. Nowadays, we take for granted the idea of religious terrorism.
1:47.9	Men like Osama bin Laden have opened the eyes of most of the recent generations. Certainly not a new idea, but in the 20th century, at least for a while, it was not truly
1:55.6	on anyone's radar. This was not the turn of the first millennium, and we were not in the middle of a crusade.
2:03.4	It was, however, the 20th century. In religious terrorism, well, it was just not as well understood
2:09.6	by the generations in the 1950s and the 1960s. It is now, again, and sadly, things might have been different during the Kennedy investigations
2:19.6	and the MLK investigation had the authorities understood and acknowledged this phenomenon and
2:26.8	connection. But they largely ignored it when it came to solving the assassination question,
2:32.6	and they limited the study of it to an
2:34.5	autonomous concept of race relations. But the glue in our story, the story we are telling about
2:41.4	the radical right, is the religious right, and specifically the Christian identity movement
2:48.0	and a leading advocate of it in this time frame.
2:52.5	And his name was Wesley Swift.
2:59.4	Wesley Swift was the founder and the leader of his own church, the Church of Jesus Christ Christian.
3:05.6	His teaching and exhortations would be ubiquitous in this cluttered corridor of domestic terrorism.
3:07.0	It was the glue that tethered together elements of the clan,
3:11.0	the white citizens' councils,
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