mulloy: reagan is interesting, because he like goldwater knew many birchers personally.ut he learned a lesson from barry goldwater, and also richard nixon, who tried to fight the berkshires -- the birchers, who suffered in 1962. ronald reagan handled the accusations against him, so he distanced himself from the society. he basically said, i stand by my views, they stand by theirs. he was very skillful in distancing himself from the society. >> did the john birch society change the republican party in any way? prof. mulloy: i think it helped them shift it to the right. it took a while for goldwater and the birchers to have that influence, but it moved it in a more conservative direction. it paved the way for reagan's eventual victory, the activism, energy, enthusiasm, and dedication to the cause. i think it really helped that side considerably to become a major part of the republican party. >> last question for you, can you tell me a little bit about the resources you used in your research? i understand there is a secret nature about them? prof. mulloy: yeah. temperatures

mulloy: reagan is interesting, because he liked goldwater and knew many birchers personally. he learned a lesson from barry goldwater, and also richard nixon, who suffered in 1962. ronald reagan handled the accusations against him, so he distanced himself from the society. he basically said, i stand by my views, they stand by theirs. he was very skillful in distancing himself from the society. >> did the john birch society change the republican party in any way? prof. mulloy: i think it helped them shift it to the right. it took a while for goldwater and the burgers to have that influence, but it moved it in a more conservative direction. it paved the way for reagan's eventual victory, the activism, energy, enthusiasm, and dedication to the cause. i think it really helped that side considerably to become a major part of the republican party. >> last question for you, can you tell me a little bit about the resources you used in your research? i understand there is a secret nature about them? prof. mulloy: yeah. a secretive organization. it does not allow independent researcher

from start to finish did you do recover of a john bircher very different from the one that was put to political use. another way of reading this is about his brilliance to appropriate this to impress into political servitude after his death so maybe not john birch but mom was so she is the facilitator providing material to do his version of the biography and even if the brothers expressed doubts later she gives the goldenseal of approval. it could re-read slightly different as the brilliant political act betake raw material and embellish and along the way by family members even the baptist to work chronicling in the exaggerated way his own activities earlier so there was a fictionalized john birch to accompany the real one. >> i'd thank you put that so well and to his mother ethel as i mentioned earlier that first was a greek and bought into the idea there was a conspiracy of her son's death but i think the a other reason that welsh latch dahlin was simply because the story was not widely known because he was so anonymous he was not a major symbol or a household name so for the purpos