"An Angry Place, a Stew of Superpatriotism Fueled by Anti-Communist Paranoia, Fierce Racism and Anti-Semitism"

"It was an amazing confederacy. People were lured to Dallas, they were marching to Dallas. There was just this rising sense of anger and distrust toward Kennedy, toward perceived socialism, religion. People feared him as a Catholic.
"I found that Dallas became really one of the most singular cities on planet Earth. For some reason out in the heartland in the middle of Texas, really powerful people coalesced around this notion that Kennedy was a traitor and in fact was guilty of treason. And these weren't just folks who were idly thinking these thoughts; they were acting on them and forming organizations and movements to essentially overthrow Kennedy."

Melissa Block on National Public Radio talks with Bill Minutaglio about Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis's new book, Dallas 1963: Patriots, Traitors, and the Assassination of JFK.

And inspired by Dallas 1963, Adam Gopnik at The New Yorker traces the Tea Party to the John Birch Society.

And James McAuley ruminates in The New York Times.