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Radio Topia from PRX is Radiotopia this is Radio Diaries I'm Joe Richmond. In today's political climate conspiracy conspiracy theories are commonplace, but they're nothing new.

In fact, back in the 1960s, there was one organization who built a movement around them.

The organization was started by a small group of wealthy businessmen,

including Robert Welch and Fred Koch. It expanded with chapters of like-minded

Americans meeting in private living rooms and finished basements across the country

fueled by conspiracy theories that reached all the way to a presidential race.

On today's show, the story of the John Birch Society. Okay, here it goes.

Over hill, over dale, we will hit the Comme's trail

as we birchers go marching along. My name is Catherine Seagull. I'm here with

my sister Charlotte Mann. Our father was James Edward Mean, an electrical engineer, and a leader in the John Birch Society.

We lived in Bridgeport, Connecticut in a Spanish-style stucco house,

and people would pile on down into the basement

and the meetings would happen there.

We will now open our meeting with a pledge of Allegiance for the flag.

I pledge allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States.

They would start with the pledge,

and then they would go through the John Birch bulletin.

Number two on our criminal agenda, and that is the United Nations get us out.

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