55 years ago today - 19-Aug 22, 1965

BYU president Ernest Wilkinson ... attended three days of private indoctrination by the president of the Birch Society, and ... resolved "to press forward for more training along this line at the BYU."

[Wilkinson diary, 19-22 Aug. 1965. From D. Michael Quinn, Ezra Taft Benson and Mormon Political Conflicts, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 26:2 (Summer 1992), also in Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power Salt Lake City (Signature Books, 1994), Chapter 3.]

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