Circulated around 1963 in the south in major cities.

[Ichingcarpenter]

Sound familiar to what Faux does today?

[Birthmark]

1. Of course.

Fear is all they have to sell.

[CTLawGuy]

2. we WISH

that Fox was reduced to doing this.

[ChicagoSuz219]

3. Bizarre, scary & those morans couldn't spell either! nt

[fasttense]

4. Looks like something I've seen circulated on the Internet about President Obama

Just change the word "Communist" to "Socialist" or "Terrorist". And add in the birther idiot meme.

[HughBeaumont]

5. Uh, Kennedy more than just soured on Communism.

What's sad is that the Red Baiting STILL goes on today in 2009. It's like these same people are controlling the same message.

[SoCalDem]

7. Um.. they ARE!

these people created a "farm-team", of like-minded stooges.. Look at all the Stink Tanks that operate solely for the purpose of pushing their bullshit "policy papers".:grr:

[SoCalDem]

6. Katanga?? really? Could any of them find it on the map?

:rofl:

[nxylas]

8. Remind me again

What happened to the guy on that poster?

[VOX]

9. JFK was wrong on "missile removal-Cuba"??? How effing anti-American!

As much of a fiasco as the Bay of Pigs invasion, it was certainly anti-Communist in intent.

And how does going toe-to-toe with Kruschev over Soviet missiles based in Cuba get perceived as "wrong" or "communist"?

It's a real comfort to know that the kind of people who made this flyer have changed so dramatically over the decades. :sarcasm:

[Cirque du So-What]

10. What org was responsible for those flyers?

Sounds like horseshit from the John Birchers, who I cite regularly as the 'intellectual' forebears of today's teabaggers.

[raccoon]

11. What "Circulated around 1963 in the south in major cities?" nt

[Cirque du So-What]

12. The actual flyers

It was a primitive method of communication back in the dark ages before RW chain e-mails.

[kwassa]

13. here is another example from that era:

I actually saw a photo like this on a billboard in the South in the mid 60s.

as everyone knows, civil rights is a communist plot!

[Ichingcarpenter]

14. The handbills came from General Walker

General Walker

General Edwin Walker was an outspoken anti-communist, segregationist, and member of the John Birch Society. Walker was commanding officer of the Army's 24th Infantry Division based in West Germany and under NATO supreme command, but was relieved command by JFK in 1961 for distributing right-wing literature to his troops.

Walker resigned from the service and returned to his native Texas. He ran in the six-man Democratic gubernatorial primary in 1962 but lost to John Connally, who went on to win the race. When Walker came to Oswald's attention in February 1963, the general was making front page news by joining forces with an evangelist in an anti-Communist tour called "Operation Midnight Ride".

Oswald allegedly tried to kill Walker at one time







http://www.john-f-kennedy.net/wantedfortreason.htm

[Gold Metal Flake]

15. Previous marriage and divorce?

WTF?

[Liberal In Texas]

16. Not much unlike the birther nonsense.