In today’s political climate, conspiracy theories are commonplace. But they’re nothing new. In the 1960s, the John Birch ...

The John Birch Society was started by a small group of wealthy businessmen, including Robert Welch and Fred Koch. It expanded with chapters of likeminded Americans meeting in private living rooms ...

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They called it the John Birch Society. Their mission was to educate the American people about the communist conspiracy that they believed was infiltrating the United States. “The founder ...

In today’s political climate, conspiracy theories are commonplace. But they’re nothing new. In the 1960s, the John Birch Society built a movement around them.