this ends up being the founding beanie of the john birch society and fred koch is literate in the room at the birth of this organization and goes on to play for palmer rolled with it. he becomes a national council member and wichita, kansas becomes a real hotbed, wichita kansas which is where the koch feminist becomes a real hotbed of birch society organizing. i was speaking with eugene earlier who mentioned as a school teacher in texas, the birch society really targeted her for some the things that were said in her classroom at that time and it really brought back a lot of memories for me about researching this book especially what was taking place in wichita at this time. there were many stories about students being told to allegedly being told to spot on their teachers for any hint of subversion. i remember as i was doing the book i talked to one former wichita school teacher recalled that she had handed out those unicef collection boxes to the students for halloween, and this became a huge source of controversy because of course the birch society was completely against the united n