The other copy of Common Sense was no less startling. It had a long article asserting that international Communism was a Jewish creation and that the Russian Revolution had not really been Russian at all. Jews had supposedly financed and led Communism since its inception, and that they thoroughly dominated the Communist movement in the United States.

This Enquirer of the right, quoted many names, dates, and sources to support its incredible allegations. I was very skeptical of its assertions, but the information was too compelling to ignore. For I had learned early on in my racial investigations not to so easily dismiss unpopular opinions.

Despite their seemingly strong documentation, the articles just seemed too bizarre to be true. How could it be that the largest and most powerful Black organization in America was founded, financed, and run by Jews, and Marxist Jews at that - instead of Blacks? How could something so incredible be kept so quiet that most people would not know about it? If the Russian Revolution was truly a revolution led by Jews rather than Marxist Russians, how could such an enormous historical fact be ignored in our history books and in our popular media? Furthermore, I could not understand why wealthy and powerful Jews would foster race-mixing and Communism.

Father had often talked to me about the evils of Communism, and I had been thoroughly anti-Communist since reading books such as The Conscience of a Conservative¹ by Barry Goldwater, None Dare Call It Treason² by John A. Stormer, and You Can Trust the Communists (To Be Communists)³ by Frederick Charles Schwarz. These books and others impressed upon me the penetration of Communist ideology in our society, media, and government.

The Cuban Missile Crisis had occurred just three years before, and Father's plans to build a fallout shelter were still fresh in my mind. He had even purchased food and other survival supplies for it. During that period, the idea of nuclear war went from an abstract idea to the realism of actually preparing for it. In the early '60s, most communities tested the working order of air-raid sirens by sounding them daily at noon. Sometimes, when we lost track of time in school and the noon air-raid sirens went off, we wondered for a moment if the war was actually upon us.

During the Cuban crisis, most adults rationalized that thermonuclear war would not happen because it must not happen - because the very thought was too monstrous to contemplate. An 11-year-old is much more prone to believe that someone might pull the switch. Years later, the world discovered that we had actually teetered much closer to nuclear war than most Americans knew at the time. The fact that Communists had put my family in real danger of nuclear incineration contributed greatly to my visceral anti-Communist stance.