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Title	Interview. God, Family, and Country Rally
Speaker	Hargis, Billy James, 1925- Watts, Clyde J.
Speaker affiliation	Christian Crusade
Digital collection	Voices of Extremism: Conflicting Ideologies in United States Politics in the Decades Following WWII
Identifier	ve054co
Copyright status	Copyright 2013, Illinois State University. All rights reserved.

Title	(part 1) Hargis about upcoming 1968 presidential election
Description	Both Hargis and Watts were avid anti-communists and believed that infiltration by communists would lead to the downfall of the United States. Communists are responsible for instigating and/or capitalizing on racial conflicts, student insurrections, riots in the cities, rise in availability of pornography, demise of religion, instigation of the war in Vietnam, lawlessness and the Kennedy assassinations. Hargis advocated a four party election in 1968, wanted to curb the power of the Supreme Court, believed the communists are waging a 'fourth dimension' or psychological war and viewed the fight in the United States against communism as the fight of God vs. Satan. Watts believed communists use U.S. freedoms to cloak their subversion and as rodents the communists 'cannot exist in the light.'
Speaker	Hargis, Billy James, 1925- Watts, Clyde J.
Speaker affiliation	Christian Crusade
Speaker biographical note	Billy James Hargis (1925-2004) received a degree in theology from Burton College and Seminary in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He served as a pastor to a couple of churches before becoming pastor of the First Christian Church in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, in 1948. From there, he founded the Christian Echoes Hour radio. In 1950, he resigned to create a national ministry, the Christian Crusade against communism. His decision was pursued by the production of programs that ran on hundreds television and radio stations. However, his career was full of controversy. Not only was he an anti-communist, he was also a supporter of racial segregation, and reputedly held anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic views. Even so, he launched an attack on sex education programs in 1968, just to be accused in 1974 of sexual relations with students at his college. Brigadier General Clyde J. Watts (1907-1975). In July 1964, Attorney Clyde J. Watts of Oklahoma City represented General Edwin A. Walker.
Transcript PDF link	https://library.illinoisstate.edu/downloads/assets/digital-collections/voices-of-extremism/ve054a.pdf
Subject	Anti-communist movements Christian Crusade Christianity--United States Conservatism--United States Presidential candidates Psychological warfare Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Laos
Subject LCNAF	Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963; Kennedy, Robert F., 1928-1968
Repository	Illinois State University, Milner Library
Digital collection	Voices of Extremism: Conflicting Ideologies in United States Politics in the Decades Following WWII
Run time	0:23:47
Media type	MPEG Audio Layer 3 (MP3)
Original carrier	Reel-to-Reel Tapes
Identifier	ve054a
Copyright status	Copyright 2013, Illinois State University. All rights reserved.

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