LDS Church History

-- 16 Apr 1966 President McKay's address at conference left church members "free to participate in non-Church meetings which are ...

-- 5 Apr 1966 A former LDS mission president and current "section leader" of the Birch Society hand-carried a letter to McKay th...

-- 17 Mar 1966 [T]he First Presidency published a denial of any sponsorship of the [Birch Society - Robert] Welch dinner and emphatically ...

-- Mar 1966 [T]he Birch magazine sent a letter to all Utah subscribers that its upcoming cover photograph of McKay was intended "to f...

-- February 9, 1966 [David O. McKay] Met by appointment Elder Ezra Taft Benson who said that the editors of the American Opinion magazine ...

-- November 16, 1965 ... If and when the United States, as the last bastion of freedom, is taken over by the Communists, the terror they w...

-- 19 Sept 1965 Reed Benson becomes national directory of public relations for the John Birch Society (1) -- Sept 1965 The biograph...

-- 24 Jun 1965 [A Birch student-spy] complained to Ernest Wilkinson in 1965 about Poll's negative reviews of the Skousen's Naked C...

-- 20 Apr 1965 [A] Birch student-[spy] had been involved in the 1965 monitoring of Professor Richard Poll and had publicly accused Poll .....

-- January 1965 [N]ationally prominent Mormon journalist Jack Anderson was reporting that the First Presidency was exasperated with Reed B...

-- September 17, 1964 Arch Madsen, president of the church-owned KSL, relayed to the First Presidency an inquiry from a committee of broad...

-- Spring 1964 ... [Reed Benson became the John Birch] coordinator for the Mormon counties of southern Idaho. (1) -- 22 May 1964 Lo...