The Party of Fear

Professor David H. BennettFebruary 16, 2012

Elisha Williams (1694-1755)

Pope Night

Break the Pope’s Neck

George Washington (1732-1799)U.S. President, 1789-1797

Ursuline Convent, Charlestown, MA

Riots of 1834

Maria Monk (1816-1849)

Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk (1836)

Samuel F.B. Morse (1791-1872)

Irish Immigration

American Republican Party, est.1843 (Native American Party)

The Organization of the Star Spangled Bannerest. 1849 by Charles Allen

The Know Nothing Party

Levi Boone, Mayor of Chicago 1855-1856

New Immigration, 1890’s

American Protective Association, est. 1887

•Henry F. Bowers (1837-1911)

Professor E.A. Ross (1866-1951)

Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)U.S. President, 1913-1921

The Red Scare, 1919

A. Mitchell Palmer (1872-1936)Attorney General of the U.S., 1919-1921

Sacco and Vanzetti (executed 1927)

Ku Klux KlanSecond KKK, est. 1921 in Georgia

March in Washington, 1925

Hiram Wesley Evans (1881-1936)Imperial Wizard, Ku Klux Klan, 1922-1939

D.C. Stephenson (1891-1966)(Grand Dragon of Indiana)

Henry Ford (1863-1947)The Dearborn Independent, 1920-1927

William Dudley Pelley (1890-1965)Silver Shirt Legion (1933-1941)

Father Charles Coughlin (1891-1979)

Dr. Francis Townsend (1867-1960)

Huey Long (1893-1935)Governor of LA, 1928-1932U.S. Senator, 1932-1935

Gerald L.K. Smith (1898-1976)

Alger Hiss (1904-1996)

Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961)

HUAC (1938-1975)House Un-American Activities Committee

Joseph R. McCarthy (1908-1957)U.S. Senator, 1947-1957

Millard Tydings (1890-1961)U.S. Senator, 1927-1951

Joseph Welch (1890-1960)

John Birch Society, est.1958

Robert W. Welch Jr., (1899-1985)

Jerry Falwell (1933-2007)

Jimmy Swaggert (1935-)

Pat Robertson (1930-)

Timothy LaHaye (1926-)

Jim Bakker (1940-)

Moral Majority (1979-1989)

Ralph Reed Jr. (1961-)

James C. Dobson (1936-)Focus on Family, est. 1977

Christian Identity

Aryan Nations, est. 1970sRichard Girnt Butler (1918-2004)

Christian Patriots Defense League

Covenant, Sword and the Arm of the Lord, est. 1971

•James Ellison•Elijah, MO •Siege, April 19-20, 1985

Louis Beam (1946-)

William L. Pierce (1933-2002)The Turner Diaries 1978

Oklahoma City bombing (1995)Timothy McVeigh (executed, 2001)

Waco (1993) and Ruby Ridge (1992)

Michigan Militia Corps, est.1994•Norman Olson

Militia of Montana, est.1992

•John Trochman