Item Detail
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24454
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English
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The 1966 BYU Student Spy Ring
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Spring 2011
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79
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no.2
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164-188
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"Following a hard-fought but unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate in 1964, Ernest L. Wilkinson, the no-nonsense sixty-five-year-old lawyer-turned-president of LDS Church-owned Brigham Young University, returned to his beloved Utah Valley campus determined more than ever to mold the school into a showcase of conservative thought. His ten-plus months on a grueling campaign trail had helped to reinforce his already strong political beliefs and to further stoke his fears of a nation blindly marching towards communism. He was convinced that during his year-long absence from the Provo school a 'group of 'liberal' teachers had decided to attempt to change the political and social atmosphere of the BYU so as to bring it more in line with the prevailing political trend toward Socialism rather than the traditional conservative view of the Church.' 'We are facing a great crisis in this country,' he told ninety-one-year-old David O. McKay, the Church's venerable prophet-president, 'and many of our political science and economics teachers are teaching false doctrine.' Wilkinson's attempts to expose members of his faculty who, he believed, were guilty of disloyalty to LDS doctrine--as Wilkinson interpreted it--would culminate in a short-lived administration-initiated student spy ring." [pp. 164-165]
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