TIL that the amazing Prelinger archives contains 34 film strips that the John Birch Society made between 1965 and 1983. archive.org/details/John-B…
JBS, 1965. America's colleges are hotbeds of subversion. “While good Americans have been complacently minding their own business, others have been quietly and patiently been working to destroy American ideals and subvert our institutions..."
JBS, 1965 continued. "While most Americans have been watching television, others have been busy implementing plans to use America’s most precious resource, its youth, to knowingly or unknowingly become the tools for fomenting the destruction of the American way of life.”
This is just your regular reminder that the narrative about how America's universities are destroying the fabric of American culture and tradtion predates FM radio, and can trace its genealogy in part to fringe groups like the Birchers & LaRoucheites.
