https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/john-stormer-whose-none-dare-call-it-treason-was-a-landmark-of-conspiracy-literature-dies-at-90/2018/07/16/82ddf100-8930-11e8-8aea-86e88ae760d8_story.html
His book had role in Goldwater nomination
Valentine, Paul.The Washington Post; Washington, D.C. [Washington, D.C]17 July 2018:
John A. Stormer..... He was 90....
Mr. Stormer's book contained more than 800 footnotes in its 253 pages, documenting his claims of Marxist infiltration with citations from government studies, newspaper articles and congressional committee reports.
Despite the patina of scholarship, the book encountered heavy criticism. Several moderate Republican leaders questioned its more sweeping conspiracist notions. And in September 1964, two months before the presidential election, a nonpartisan citizens group called the National Committee for Civic Responsibility placed a report in the Congressional Record blasting the book in a withering page-by-page critique.
"At best," it said, the book was "an incredibly poor job of research and documentation and, at worst, a deliberate hoax and a fraud."
The book cited a 1934 letter by labor leaders Walter and Victor Reuther that said, "Carry on the fight for a Soviet America" - an established hoax with six different versions, according to additional research reported by the New York Times in 2017.
Nevertheless, the book and two other ultraconservative, self-published paperbacks - Phyllis Schlafly's "A Choice Not an Echo" and J. Evetts Haley's "A Texan Looks at Lyndon" - were distributed by the millions throughout the campaign season, often sold at discount or given away.
The mass distribution marked a unique publicity initiative by the Republican right in which it largely ignored both the mainstream media and standard GOP publications of the day, such as National Review and Human Events. The sudden flood of privately circulated paperbacks by little-known authors without the imprimatur of established book-publishing companies "energized grassroots conservatives, helped Barry Goldwater secure the GOP nomination, and framed the right's alternative campaign," Nicole Hemmer, author of "Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics," wrote in the Atlantic Online in 2014.
The Goldwaterites, Hemmer wrote, "harbored deep suspicions" of the national media and distrusted the GOP establishment that tended to support Goldwater's more moderate competitors for the nomination, Pennsylvania Gov. William W. Scranton and New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller.
In their alternative gambit, Goldwater backers skipped the established book-distribution system for their own grass-roots blitz, blanketing much of the nation indiscriminately but also targeting key Republican strategists as well as delegates to the GOP national convention in San Francisco in July 1964.
Several wealthy conservative backers, including Texas oil tycoon H.L. Hunt, helped bankroll the campaign.....
October 8, 1962
As you read the left column, quoting Thornton Dewey, consider that Dewey states the book relied on his wife's research
and she died shortly after the book
went to press. Since her death certificate fixes her date of death by self-inflicted gunshot
as July 5, 1964, the book Evetts Haley and the Dewey couple collaborated on researching,
was in print just seven months after November 22, 1963. Who would devote the time and attention to a book project devoted to LBJ before JFK was assassinated, considering it was not likely LBJ would be a two-term Vice President or would be a presidential candidate before 1968?
I think it likely the smear book on LBJ was initiated in anticipation of JFK being assassinated and was much closer to completion than considered before.
September 20, 1964
General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy: The Extensive New ... Pg. 296By Jeffrey H. Caufield, M.D.
W. Orrin Miller, an attorney with a family member who claims Miller assisted George Bush in drafting Zapata incorporation papers, purchased the 4011 Turtle Creek house from its longtime owner, a Coopers & Lybrand partner, in July, 1963 and sold the house in 1978.
