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By a former candidate executive by the name of robert welch also is known as the anticommunist views at that point. They were brought there under the strictest secrecy. They didnt even know why theyre going to indianapolis. They were told not to even stay at the same hotel, less attract suspicion about why all these prominent businessmen are in one place. This ends up being the founding beanie of the John Birch Society and fred koch is literate in the room at the birth of this organization and goes on to play for palmer rolled with it. He becomes a National Council member and wichita, kansas becomes a real hotbed, wichita kansas which is where the koch feminist becomes a real hotbed of Birch Society organizing. I was speaking with eugene earlier who mentioned as a School Teacher in texas, the Birch Society really targeted her for some the things that were said in her classroom at that time and it really brought back a lot of memories for me about researching this book especially what was taking place in wichita at this time. There were many stories about students being told to allegedly being told to spot on their teachers for any hint of subversion. I remember as i was doing the book i talked to one former wichita School Teacher recalled that she had handed out those unicef collection boxes to the students for halloween, and this became a huge source of controversy because of course the Birch Society was completely against the united nations, and their motto at that time was u. S. Out now in reference to the united nations. So charles koch, the second of four of the Koch Brothers returns home from come he attends mit as well, he returned someone joined the society largely because his dad is an influential member. Like he really seemed to take to it. He found the John Birch Society bookstore down the street from the koch family home where he curates section on austrian economics, free market economics, and to get an idea of how diehard the kochs were about communism at that point, i heard one story as well as from the koch family friend who recalls strolling up to the koch come home sometime in the mid 1960s. Is carrying a copy of Ernest Hemingways the sun also rises, and he knocks on the door charles koch answers and his eyes flicker over the cover of this book. The visitor can tell that theres something wrong, and find the as okay, what is a . And charles responds respond very politely, you know welcome hemingway was a communist and you cant go is literature is not allowed inside our home. So this visitor actually asked to leave this copy of hemingway on the stoop in order to enter. Thats a serious they were about communism at that point. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Is a look at some books that are being published this week. Look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and once by the authors in the near future on booktv. Org. Go to prizewinning photojournalist Lynsey Addario discusses her experiences covering conflicts in iraq, pakistan, afghanistan and libya. She spoke at politics prose bookstore in washington, d. C. Thanks for coming out tonight. Im Deputy Director of events for politics and prose. Before we begin a couple of procedural votes. First and foremost, if you would be so kind to silence or turn off your cell phone we would be very appreciative. Second, please go up to the microphone which is right to which is right there and speak into it during q a as we are recording the program and want