Fourth of July 1973 in Philadelphia was hot as hell.

But that didn't deter the 50 or so protesters who gathered outside Independence Hall for

a makeshift funeral.

Dressed to the nines as the founding fathers, powdered wigs and all, they were there to

mark the end of an era.

They were there to mourn.

The leader of the group, a fundamentalist preacher named Carl McIntyre, approached a homemade

coffin adorned with the words, Freedom of Speech.

And into it he placed a replica antenna of his radio station, WXUR.

WXUR died tonight.

There's one issue, Freedom of Speech, free exercise and religion.

My religious and liberal opponent was successful in securing the aim of the federal government,

the silence of voice and the religious minority.

On WXUR, Carl McIntyre repeatedly broadcasts scathing screeds against the civil rights movement.

Then let the guilt lie squarely upon such philosophers as Martin Luther King and President Joe.

What did the Negro apologists of our time expect?

He espoused paranoid ideas of communist penetration into the US government.

Despite the Americans, what the world ought to see is that the communists are so wicked and so evil that men have...

And trumpeted anti-Semitic ideas.

The Jews at the present time are in darkness, are going back and unbelief.

But all of that was legal.

What did his station in was his lack of ideological balance.

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