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Title: John Birch Society Collection
Dates: 1960s
Collection Number: Consult repository
Creator/Collector:
Sidney Gally.
Extent: 1 box
Repository:
Pasadena Museum of History
Abstract: The John Birch Society Collection consists primarily of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and books regarding the organization.
Language of Material: English
Collection open for research.
For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact the Research Library and Archives, Pasadena Museum of History.
John Birch Society Collection. Pasadena Museum of History
L2011-04-29. Donated by Mr. Sidney Gally of Pasadena, California.
Biography/Administrative History
The John Birch Society is an American political advocacy group that supports anti-communism, limited government, a Constitutional
Republic and personal freedom.
It was founded in 1958 by Robert W. Welch, Jr. The society was named for John Birch, a captain in the US Army who was supposedly
murdered by Chinese Communists 10 days after VJ Day. It first came to the widespread attention of Pasadenans in reporter Bill
Sumner's newspaper column of February 10, 1961 in the Pasadena Star-News. Southern Californian congressmen John H. Rousselot
and Edgar W. Heisstand were members of the John Birch Society.
the Society is still active with local chapters in all 50 states. The organization owns American Opinion Publishing, which
publishes the journal The New American.
Scope and Content of Collection
The John Birch Society Collection consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings primarily from the Pasadena Star News and
the LA Times from 1961.
Book, The Blue Book of the John Birch Society, 4th printing, 1961, by Robert Welch.
Book, The John Birch Society in California Politics, by Bryan W. Stevens, 1966.
limited government
anti-communist
Cold War
Constitutional Republic
Brown, Edmund G.(Edmund Gerald) -- 1905-1996
Rousselot, John H. -- 1927-2003
Kerr,Clark -- 1911-2003
Birch,John -- 1918-1945
ACLU
John Birch Society
California
U.S.
newspaper clippings
books (2)
Governor Edmund G. Brown
Congressman John H. Rousselot
Chancellor Clark Kerr
Captain John Birch