The New John Birch Society..the Tea Party. Great column by Tampa Bay Times Robyn Blumner.

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30. Full Page ad in Dallas Paper on Nov. 22

On Nov 22, the day Kennedy was killed, the Dallas Morning News ran a full page ad in section 1 of the paper criticizing the President. It was signed with a false a name and was later found to be paid for by the Birch Society. You can see the full page ad on display at the 6th Floor Museum. Dallas's hands are not clean in the matter of John Kennedy's death. Many of the richest people in Dallas were members and contributors of the John Birch Society. The owner of the Dallas Morning News was a super right wing and I read that he hated Kennedy and ran many editorials criticizing the president. A few years earlier, a group of republican ladies attacked LBJ and Lady Bird at a Dallas hotel, even spit on them. A few months before Kennedy was killed, some of the right wingers attacked Adlai Stevenson, hitting him over the head with a sign and also spitting on him.

The leaders of the city should have spoken out and condemned all the hate and bad behavior that was in the city, but they went along with it, even condoned it.