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The article John Birch states in 1st 'graph that "He enrolled at the Bible Baptist Seminary at Fort Worth, Texas, in 1938...". Since he is also said to have graduated from Mercer University, Macon, GA, i looked for documentation for this, and found that Arlington Baptist College claims that Dr. J. Frank Norris, a Baptist pastor "announced the formation of the Pre-Millennial Bible Conference/Southwestern Pre-Millennial Bible School" which planned two "sessions" per year, starting in November 1931 and expanded it into "Fundamental Baptist Bible Institute" in one room of the church with a term of "eight months plus a two-month summer term", starting October, 1939, then renamed it "Bible Baptist Seminary" in 1945. (All of this in Fort Worth; moved away, became ABC, went 4-yr unaccredited, in '50s.) Perhaps he took a course or two at the BBS's predecessor-once-removed PMBC/SPMBS (for two months?) in the summer of 1938.
But i'm substituting the Mercer version, pending more info; i dunno anything abt Mercer, but graduating in the middle of the academic year at 21 1/2, in GA between the wars, is for me entirely plausible for someone "named for a Rhodes scholarship" (even if that means "nominated" rather than "offered"). --Jerzy
This is erroneous. Georgia Baptist College is in Atlanta, not Macon, and did not become affiliated with Mercer University until 1972. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.82.131.117 (talk) 13:30, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
How did unsourced smear get into this entry? ~~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Publiusohio (talk • contribs) 02:13, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Robert F. Welch is said to have referred to John Birch as "the first casualty of World War III". I don't know if it's true, wish I had time to look it up... Ellsworth 23:49, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
The first comment on the Talk:Robert W. Welch Jr. page questions his existence, and today there is an Ask Metafilter question about the same thing. It sounds like this is something worth mentioning in the main article (ideally, with information that supports or debunks the assertion that he is ficticious).
Does anyone have a reference for this "housing project outside Boston"? I'm a Bostonian and I haven't heard of this. Ubermonkey 17:55, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
I restored the quote from Time Magazine, which was anonymously removed under the misunderstanding that it was a smear (which I don't think it was, it was the reminiscence of a classmate) and unsourced, which it was not. ch (talk) 07:20, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Since the article now contains references and sources, should we remove the tag? Unless anyone objects, I will do so in a week or so. ch (talk) 05:16, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
If I understand correctly, Birch was armed and refused to surrender his revolver. Killing an armed man is hardly a execution. IMO, the infobox should be fixed accordingly.--Paul Siebert (talk) 22:57, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
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Though I understand the need to identify racist terms in their own right, they should not be repeated and cited in other articles.
The use of the term "coolies" is racist and offensive when describing the people involved in the funeral procession.
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It is well documented that a) an OSS officer who was sympathetic to Mao informed the communists of Birch's whereabouts, and b) The Communists hated Birch because he was so well liked among the Chinese peasantry from his missionary work as well as work with them during the war against the Japanese, and c) the OSS classified his shooting by Mao's communists because the OSS was directed by Alger Hiss the subsequently convicted soviet spy in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations to do so for "diplomatic reasons" and that it took several years and a Senate investigation to unseal the file on Birch's death to his own family. The scandal resulting was one of the things that lead to the later McCarthyist era rooting communist spies out of the US government. I don't have the time to bother writing this all up, and I'm not interested in dealing with all the politics of wikieditor edit wars, so if someone who does like those things cares to investigate and source all this, I think Birch's own family would appreciate it. 2601:185:8200:3890:353A:E270:17CF:7684 (talk) 18:03, 31 October 2021 (UTC)