Huge billboards screamed “Impeach Earl Warren.”
Jewish stores were smeared with
crude swastikas. Fanatical young
matrons swayed in public to the chant,
“Stevenson’s going to die–his heart will
stop, stop, stop and he will burn, burn burn!”
Radical Right polemics were distributed in
public schools; Kennedy’s name was booed in classrooms; junior executives were required to
attend radical seminars. Dallas had become the
mecca for medicine-show evangelists of the
National Indignation Convention, the Christian
Crusaders, the Minutemen, the John Birch and
Patrick Henry societies . . .
In Dallas a retired major general flew the
In Dallas a retired major general flew the
American flag upside down in front of his
house, and when, on Labor Day of 1963,
the Stars and Stripes were hoisted right
side up outside his own home by County
Treasurer Warren G. Harding–named by
Democratic parents for a Republican
President in an era when all Texas children
were taught to respect the Presidency,
regardless of party–Harding was accosted
by a physician’s son, who remarked bitterly,
“That’s the Democrat flag. Why not just run
up the hammer and sickle while you’re at it?" -
William Manchester, Death of a President.
The perfectly “conservative” Neo-Confederate
RIGHT WING LUNATIC ASLYUM.
RIGHT WING LUNATIC ASLYUM.