Anarchy U.S.A.

ANARCHY, U.S.A. (1966, sound, 78min, color, 16mm) Sponsor: John Birch Society. produCtion Co.: unknown. Director/Writer: G. Edward Griffin. Resources: Copyright not registered; Joseph H. Jeppson, “Confusion u.S.A.,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 2 (Spring 1967): 110; Ken reich, “Birch Anti-rights Film Creates Southland Stir,” LAT, oct. 2, 1967, SG1. HoLdinGS: Macdonald. Right-wing film arguing that the civil rights movement and urban disturbances of the 1960s were evidence of a worldwide communist revolution and growing dominance at home. The polemic warns that communists may be planning to create an independent African American state. note: Anarchy, U.S.A. incorporates purchased news footage.