W. Cleon Skousen

Willard Cleon Skousen (born January 20, 1913 in Raymond (Alberta) , Canada , † January 9, 2006 in Salt Lake City , United States ) was an American author, public speaker, FBI agent, professor at Brigham Young University , Salt Lake City Police Chief and Conservative , anti-communist and Mormon activist. His writings, shaped by conspiracy theories , Mormon theology, and homage to the Founding Fathers, and the Constitution of the United States - notably The Naked Communist (1958), The Naked Capitalist (1970), and The 5,000 Year Leap (1981) - had a great influence on Glenn Beck and the tea party movement .

The economist Mark Skousen (* 1947), the linguist Royal Skousen (* 1945) and the conspiracy theorist Joel Skousen are nephews of W. Cleon Skousen.

Life

Cleon Skousen's parents, Roy and Rita Bentley Skousen, were American. They ran their own farm in Raymond, Canada, an ultra-conservative Mormon community. When Cleon Skousen was ten years old, the family (Cleon Skousen had seven siblings) moved to California. There he attended in Torrance , then to 1925 the primary school to the 1926 Sturgess Junior High School in San Bernardino and then until 1928, the Juarez Stake Academy in Mexican Chihuahua . From September 1928 to June 1930 he attended San Bernardino High School, where he graduated.

After the missionary service in England and Ireland (1930-1932) Skousen studied from 1933 at the San Bernardino Junior College in California and made there in 1935 his degree ( Associate of Arts degree ). He then moved to Washington, DC , where he worked for a New Deal agricultural agency for a few months .

On October 24, 1935, Skousen's FBI career began, mainly in administrative and office positions in Washington and Kansas. On August 13, 1936, he married Jewel Almira Pitcher. He completed his studies (major in political science, minor in history), which he began at George Washington University in 1935 , in June 1940 ( LL.B. ); his first son was born in February of that year (four more sons and three daughters followed by 1955). On June 17, 1940, Skousen was promoted to special agent. On October 5, 1951, he quit his FBI service.

Subsequently, Skousen was at Brigham Young University (BYU) a. a. as Director of Public Services and Assistant Professor of Speech.

In June 1956, Skousen became the Salt Lake City Police Chief. In 1958 he published his anti-communist treatise The Naked Communist , which became a bestseller. Skousen wrote the book at the suggestion of Latter-day Saint President David O. McKay , who also found a publisher for the book and offered financial assistance. In addition, McKay even campaigned for The Naked Communist in the 1959 general conference ; McKay admonished everyone to read the excellent book; in this Skousen et al. a. that the first Sputnik was built with the help of plans stolen from the United States and that Fulgencio Batista was a worker-friendly and popular ruler in Cuba .

In March 1960 he was dismissed by the Mayor of Salt Lake City, J. Bracken Lee ; Lee accused Skousen of having run the police in a totalitarian manner ("like a gestapo ") and for private purposes, while Skousen saw the reason for his dismissal in the fact that his police actions did not stop at Lee and his friends from the elite . Skousen's supporters burned crosses on the mayor's lawn.

After his discharge from the police force, Skousen ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for governor of Utah . His campaign advertised him as a four-year "Administrative Assistant to J. Edgar Hoover during World War II, a top assignment". When asked, Hoover had to make it clear that there was no such post in the FBI. Nevertheless, Skousen's allegedly close collaboration with Hoover was still rumored years later by the John Birch Society , but also by Skousen himself, which was one of the reasons why the FBI repeatedly distanced itself from Skousen and / or his information about what he had acquired from the FBI Denied competencies on the subject of communism (the FBI file on Skousen grew to around 2000 pages over the years). In the Deseret News obituary , Skousen was referred to as Hoover's assistant.

After campaigning for the nomination for governor, Skousen became the editorial director of the national police magazine Law and Order . At the same time, he made a name for himself as a speaker at anti-communist events (Skousen attended hundreds of events for years, often in front of an audience of over a thousand), mainly for the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade by Fred Schwarz and the American Opinion Speakers Bureau of the John Birch Society. In his speeches Skousen et al. a. rumor has it that Harry Hopkins , an advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt , betrayed the Manhattan Project to the Soviets and gave them nearly half of America's uranium supplies.

In September 1960, at the instigation of Clyde Tolson , Skousen was removed from the FBI's Special Correspondents List, on which he was only placed in March (as a former FBI agent). This happened in view of the fact that the FBI increasingly perceived Skousen as a right-wing extremist.

An organization called the All-American Society, founded by Skousen after he was fired from Salt Lake City Police Department, was mentioned in a December 1961 article in Time magazine about "rightwing ultras". Skousen was it characterized as one of the most active spokesman for the right movement, quoting freely from the Bible, continued publicity for his book The Naked Communist do and a full investigation of the State Department by the Congress urge.

At the end of 1962, Skousen was released from the conservative American Security Council (ASC), for which he had worked in Chicago since 1959 as a "field representative"; Members of the ASC were of the opinion that Skousen was crazy ("gone off the deep end") or an unprincipled and unconscionable, greedy business man in terms of anti-communism ("unprincipled racketeer in anticommunism [...] money mad"). In The Naked Communist , Skousen had advised business people to contact the ASC, which maintained a private black list of people with left-wing connections, to screen workers .

1967 returned Skousen at BYU and became a professor in the religion department, where he seminars about the Book of Mormon , the Old Testament and the early history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints ( Latter-day Saints organized, LDS). One of his students was Mitt Romney, future Massachusetts governor and Republican candidate for the 2012 presidential election .

In 1970 Skousen self-published a 144-page review of Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope (1966) under the title The Naked Capitalist . Skousen's review interpreted Quigley's book in terms of a New World Order conspiracy theory ; Here Skousen assumed a conspiratorial union of families of the super-rich with left-wing revolutionaries and internationalist-minded liberals to establish a global collectivism (see below on Skousen's article "Home Grown Subversion"). The Naked Capitalist was used in the classroom by some professors at BYU. In Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought they gave Quigley opportunity to take Skousens interpretation of his book position; at the same time, BYU professor Louis C. Midgley was asked for a review of Skousen's book. The verdict of the two, published in the Fall / Winter 1971 issue of Dialogue , found that Skousen had invented fantastic ideas and reached conclusions beyond righteous commentary. Skousen was accused of having made things up to Quigley that could not be found in his book and at the same time ignored the fact that the book was directed against ultra-right conspiracy theorists such as Skousen. Quigley himself even said that, in his opinion, Skousen's personal points of view echo the NSDAP's 25-point program .

The conspiracy-theoretical documentary film The Capitalist Conspiracy (1972) by G. Edward Griffin names The Naked Capitalist as an inspiration and one of the most important documents of the decade.

In April 1971, the FBI's Crime Research Section prepared an internal memo analyzing Skousen's “Home Grown Subversion” article, published in Law and Order in March of that year . The occasion was a request from J. Edgar Hoover whether the FBI could confirm statements made in it (many of which can already be found in The Naked Capitalist ). In this article, Skousen et al. a. that

• Members of rich dynasties ("dynastic rich") would finance the violent revolution (as a counter-revolution to the American Revolution ) to help the rich take over the land for the benefit of mankind,
• Karl Marx after 1848 the democratic socialism facing and reformist methods have recommended to take over the United States and England,
• Scholars would begin to discover that all communist revolutions would have been successful only with financial help from wealthy donors; Skousen cites the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 as an example , which was financed by various dynastic banking families,
• two main organizers of these grants were British diplomat Sir George Buchanan and British politician Alfred Milner ,
• Jakob Heinrich Schiff gave 20 million dollars to communist rulers for the final triumph of Bolshevism,
• donate the Ford Foundation to organizations that pursue globalist politics and propaganda,
• British and American affluent people had come together to form the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR), the purpose of which was to influence the foreign policy of the United States in order to establish a worldwide collectivist society,
• Investigations by Congress had shown that the CFR and IPR were responsible for China's fall to the Communists , for the misconduct of the Korean War and the non-victory strategy in the Vietnam conflict ,
• the members of the rich dynasties through their tax-exempt foundations, along with the violent revolutionary left, sought to create such chaos that Americans would ask the federal government to seize power.

The FBI memo could only confirm key data in Skousen's article.

1971 (or 1972) Skousen founded the Freemen Institute (often also Freeman Institute) in Provo . a. LDS President Ezra Taft Benson delivered . The opponents or ideas fought by the Freemen Institute included a. the Occupational Safety and Health Administration , the Environmental Protection Agency , the Fairness Doctrine , the move away from the gold standard , agricultural subsidies , federal grants for education, federal welfare , development aid , the social security system , the ban on public school-sanctioned school prayers and Bible reading and the United Nations . The Freemen Institute changed its name to the National Center for Constitutional Studies (NCCS) around 1984 and is currently based in Malta, Idaho , from where it still distributes Skousen's writings and holds seminars nationwide (often as part of the tea party Movement) organized; in these seminars was u. a. referring to Skousen's Making of America, claims that the Anglo-Saxons were descended from one of the lost tribes of Israel ( British Israelism ).

In February 1979 the LDS distanced itself from the Freemen Institute. In a circular to high-ranking LDS officials, the LDS Church First Presidency (LDS President Spencer W. Kimball , Nathan Eldon Tanner and Marion G. Romney) prohibited announcements of Freemen Institute events at LDS events.

In 1978 Skousen retired from BYU.

Soon after the Council for National Policy was established, Skousen was appointed to this right-wing think tank. There he made a name for himself as one of the earliest advertisers for the privatization of the American social security system.

In his book The 5,000-Year Leap (1981), Skousen drafts a mythology in which the American founding fathers received their principles of limited central government through divine inspiration or through the rejection of collectivist European philosophy and recourse to Anglo-Saxon tribal chiefs who attached themselves to the biblical tribes of ancient Israel should have oriented. For these and other theses, Skousen uses unbalanced quotations and baseless claims, such as the one that the founding fathers adopted the motto In God We Trust as their own. The image of a Christian nation, in which a separation of church and state was never envisaged and whose constitution owes more to the Bible than to the Enlightenment , emerges, which is often used by the religious right in the United States . The title of the book is derived from Skousen's thesis that the United States had made a leap in development of five thousand years by referring to 28 ideas to which Skousen et al. a. counts:

• A free people cannot survive under a republican constitution unless they remain virtuous and morally strong.
• Without religion, the government of a free people cannot be maintained.
• The role of government is to provide equal rights, not equal things.
• Debt burdens are as destructive to freedom as submission by conquest.
• The United States' Manifesto Destiny is to be an example and a blessing to humanity.

On February 18, 1983, Skousen gave the introductory speech for President Ronald Reagan at a conference of the American Conservative Union and Young Americans for Freedom and the National Review and Human Events at the Sheraton Hotel in Washington, DC

In 1984, the future sheriff of Graham County (Arizona) and multiple candidate for the House of Representatives Richard Mack belonged to a class of 240 American police officers who taught Skousen about the American constitution in Provo; Mack later described this as his conversion.

The future governor of Arizona Evan Mecham told The Arizona Republic in 1986 :

“I would enjoy being known as a protege of Cleon Skousen. I have all of his books, suitably autographed. I'm a great fan of his, and we're very dear friends. "

At this time Skousen was on tour with his book The Making of America (1985) and a condensed study edition (1986); He held one or seven day seminars in which he u. a. attacked federal government regulators, advocating abolishing minimum wages , smashing unions, repealing anti-discrimination laws, selling public property to land and national parks , repealing the 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution , abolishing income tax and inheritance tax , end the state separation of church and state and destroy the Federal Reserve System .

In 1987 controversy arose over the use of an essay on slavery in the United States from The Making of America , which was being sold by the California Bicentennial Commission set up by Governor George Deukmejian ; Particular emphasis was placed on factual errors and passages characterized as racist , with Skousen quoting from Fred Albert Shannon's Economic History of the People of the United States (1934).

The book The Myth of Separation (1989) by evangelical author David Barton has, according to the Baptist church historian Stephen Stookey, “striking parallels” with Skousen's work.

Until 1993 Skousen was a member of the conservative Meadeau View Institute of William H. Doughty , who wanted to build a utopian, "constitutionalist" community in Duck Creek or Mammoth Valley ( Kane County, Utah ), including a Skousen Center; Skousen, whose family had supported Doughty's efforts with over 100,000 US dollars, left the organization, which was plagued by financial scandals, because of “irregularities in the management” and advised others to quit as well.

In the 1990s, Russell Pearce (briefly President of the Arizona Senate in 2011 ) was a student of Skousen.

Skousen spent the last years of his life in a rather withdrawn manner, although he still gave lectures every now and then and received politicians at his home.

Posthumously

The then apostle and later LDS president Thomas S. Monson spoke at Skousen's funeral . Orrin Hatch ( Senator for Utah ) delivered a memorial address in the United States Senate on January 25, 2006 , in which he recalled Skousen's strong support for his own political career and which he ended with a self-written poem for Skousen.

In the course of an interview that Mitt Romney gave radio presenter Jan Mickelson in his broadcast on the medium-wave station WHO in Des Moines on August 2, 2007 as part of his campaign for his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the 2008 presidential election in the United States , it came about to several positive mentions of Skousen by his former student Romney, u. a. that he had not read The Making of America , but considered it (on Mickelson's very benevolent description) to be "worth reading" and a book by Skousen called A Thousand Years for a description of Mormon eschatology . As part of Romney's candidacy for the 2012 presidential election, these mentions were brought up again.

Posthumously Glenn Beck (since around 2007, but especially in the context of Beck's 9-12 Project since 2009) is responsible for a new, popular interest in Skousen's work; some conservatives such as David Frum and Matthew Continetti criticized Beck for using Skousen. A March 2009 reprint of The 5,000 Year Leap contained a foreword by Beck. In the first half of 2009 alone, the book sold more than 250,000 copies. On one of the Family Research Council aligned annually Voter Values Summits Governor recommended Texas , Rick Perry , in September 2009, the reading of the book. Conservative painter Jon McNaughton's painting One Nation Under God shows a college student holding a copy of The 5,000 Year Leap .

As part of Mike Lee's election as Senator for Utah, attention was drawn to his intellectual and personal ties to Skousen. In 2011, the tea party organization Tea Party Patriots tried to bring Skousen and NCCS materials to public schools as part of the statutory Constitution Week .

Publications

Fonts

• The story of the Mormon pioneers . 223rd Quorum of Seventy, San Fernando Stake 1947.
  • Spanish translation by Elder Russell A. Cannon and Marcelo Zavala: Historia de los peregrinos Mormones . Compiled and illustrated by Eric and Bland Larson. Buenos Aires, 1949.
• Prophecy and modern times . Deseret Books, Salt Lake City 1948.
• with the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association: Exploring into manhood, 1948–1949: MIA Explorer guide with discussion topics . General Board, Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City 1948.
• The communist mind . Southwest Radio Church, Oklahoma City 1950.
• New light on old problems . Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City c1953.
• The challenge of our times . Bookcraft Publishers, Salt Lake City 1953.
• The first 2000 years . Bookcraft Publishers, Salt Lake City 1953.
• The real story of Christmas: Compiled from the scriptures and authoritative historical sources . Deseret Book, Salt Lake City 1954.
• “The real story of Christmas”, in: BYU Speeches of the Year , 1953–54.
• with LeGrand Richards, Joseph Fielding Smith, Harold Olen Clark, Spencer W Kimball, Elbert R. Curtis, Harold B. Lee, Mark E. Petersen, Adam S. Bennion and Richard L Evans: The Ten Commandments today: a discussion of the decalog . Deseret Book Co., Salt Lake City 1955.
• “What of the future” [radio address of December 27, 1955], in: BYU Speeches of the Year , 1955–56.
• “Brigham Young, patron of education” [Address to the Brigham Young University student body, February 18, April 5, 1956], in: BYU Speeches of the Year , 1955–56.
• The naked communist . Ensign Pub. Co., Salt Lake City 1958.
  • Spanish: El Comunismo al desnudo . Mexico, c1982.
• with Obert C. Tanner: Is peaceful coexistence with Russia possible? Two viewpoints . History Club of Brigham Young University, Provo 1959.
• The West can win . Deseret news, Salt Lake City 1959.
• Can the West win? Deering Milliken, Spartenburg, SC 196 ?.
• Law enforcement looks at "mental health" . Law and Order, New York c1961.
• The naked Communist: Supplement to the First 7 Editions . Ensign Pub. Co., Salt Lake City 1961.
• “Palestine in prophecy” [Address to the Brigham Young University student body given March 28, 1962], in: BYU Speeches of the Year , 1961–62.
• My reply to Dr. Richard D. Poll and his critique of The naked communist . Ensign Pub. Co., Salt Lake City c1962.
• Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.: man behind the scene in Washington . Ensign, Salt Lake City 1962.
• What is “left”, what is “right” . Ensign Pub. Co., Salt Lake City 1962.
• Has Cuba been abandoned to Communism? Ensign Pub. Co., Salt Lake City 1962.
• So you want to raise a boy? Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1962.
  • Spanish translation by César González-Blanco: El hijo año tras año . Daimon [Antonio J. Rovira], Madrid 1965.
• Gold nuggets for the new chief . Law and Order Magazine, New York 1963.
• The Communist Attack on the John Birch Society . Ensign Publishing Company, Salt Lake City, 1963.
• The third thousand years . Bookcraft, Salt Lake City 1964.
• with Jean Kunz, Charles F. Flood and the Mutual Improvement Association: Young Marrieds manual 1965–1966 . General Boards of the Mutual Improvement Associations of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City 1965.
• The Easter story . Ensign Pub. Co., Salt Lake City c1966.
• The fourth thousand years . Bookcraft, Salt Lake City 1966.
• The Communist Attack on US Police . Ensign Publishing Company, Salt Lake City 1966.
• Fantastic victory; Israel's rendezvous with destiny . Bookcraft, Salt Lake City 1967.
• “Freedom from drug addiction - God's plan” [Address given to the Brigham Young University student body on February 18, 1969], in: BYU Speeches of the Year , 1968–69.
• with the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons: We didn't ask for it, but we're getting it . Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago 1969.
• "Communist press calls for attack on LDS Church". National Research Group, American Fork, Utah c1970.
• The naked capitalist: a review and commentary on Dr. Carroll Quigley's book: Tragedy and hope, a history of the world in our time . The Reviewer, Salt Lake City c1970.
  • Chinese translation by Gongji Wang: 主宰 美國 命運 的 幕後 集團 . Xin wen tian di she, Hong Kong 1972.
  • Italian translation by Stefania Vaselli: Il capitalista nudo . Armando, Rome 1978.
  • Hungarian translation by Ödövényi Péter: A leleplezett kapitalista: Königinyvbírálat és megjegyzések Quigley Carroll Tragédia és reménység című Königyvéhez . Canadian Intelligence Publications, Flesherton, Ont. 1982.
  • Japanese translation of Ryū Ōta: 世界 の 歴 史 を カ ネ で 動 か す 男 た ち: 国際 エ ス タ ブ リ ッ シ ュ メ ン ト の 金融 支配 . Seikō Shobō, Tōkyō 2005.
• Hidden Treasures from the Book Of Mormon . 4 volumes. Dana Press and Publisher's Press, Provo and Salt Lake City 1971/72.
• Think American: put the patriot back into patriotism . Associated Men Students, Rexburg, Idaho 1971.
• What is behind the frantic drive for a new constitution? Full text and analysis . Freemen Institute, Provo 1971.
• with Carroll Quigley, Louis C. Midgley, William E. Fort, et al: “The naked capitalist: round table review”, in: Dialogue , vol. 6, no. 3-4, Autumn / Winter, 1971, p. 99-116.
• Treasures from the Book of Mormon . Dana Press, Provo 1974.
• Behind the scenes in Washington . [Monthly newsletter for subscribers.] Freemen Institute and National Center for Constitutional Studies, 1974–1990.
• with Ernest L. Wilkinson: Brigham Young University: a school of destiny . Brigham Young University Press, Provo, Utah c1976.
• Notes for the New Chief: A Police Chief's Manual from Law and Order . Law and Order, the Copp Organization, New York 1977.
• with the Freemen Institute: Lecture outline of the Miracle of America study course Freeman Institute, Salt Lake City 198 ?.
• with the Freemen Institute: Miracle of America: study guide . Freeman Institute, Salt Lake City 1981.
• The secret to America's strength: the role of religion in the Founding Fathers' Constitutional Formula . The Freeman Institute, Salt Lake City 1981.
• The five thousand year leap: twenty-eight ideas that changed the world . Freemen Institute, Salt Lake City 1981 (1982 printing).
• What is left? What is Right ?: A Study of Political Extremism . Freemen Institute, Salt Lake City 1981.
• What ever happened to Congress! An amazing story . Freemen Institute, Salt Lake City c1981.
• Why we must reform Congress by 1983 . Freemen Institute, Salt Lake City 1981.
• with M. Richard Maxfield and Andrew M. Allison as editors: The real Benjamin Franklin . Freemen Institute, Salt Lake City 1982.
• with Robert N. Thompson: Canada can now adopt a model constitution . Published for the Freeman Education Institute by Omega Pub., Langley, BC 1982.
• The urgent need for a comprehensive monetary reform . Freeman Institute, Salt Lake City 1982.
• A Program of Social Security Reform which Should Please Everybody . Freeman Institute, Salt Lake City 1982.
• with M. Richard Maxfield and K. DeLynn Cook as editors: The real Thomas Jefferson . 2nd edition. National Center for Constitutional Studies, Washington, DC 1983.
• with the National Center for Constitutional Studies: The unhinging of America . National Center for Constitutional Studies, Washington, DC 1984.
• with the National Center for Constitutional Studies: The Roots of America . National Center for Constitutional Studies, Washington, DC 1984.
• Isaiah Speaks to Modern Times . Ensign Pub Co 1984. ISBN 0-910558-25-6 .
• The making of America: the substance and meaning of the Constitution . National Center for Constitutional Studies, Washington, DC c1985.
• with Ronald N. Sills and the National Center for Constitutional Studies: The making of America: study guide and biblical supplement: a course . National Center for Constitutional Studies, Washington, DC 1986.
• Prophecy and Modern Times . 3rd edition. Deseret Book Company, Salt Lake City 1988. ISBN 0-934364-21-4 .
• as editor with Jay A. Parry and Andrew M. Allison: The real George Washington . National Center for Constitutional Studies, Washington, DC 1991.
• Days of the Living Christ . Volume 1. The Ensign Publishing co. 1992. ISBN 978-0-916095-46-8 .
• Treasures from the Book of Mormon . Vol. 1: First Nephi through Jacob 7. 2nd edition. Ensign Publishing Company, Salt Lake City 1995. ISBN 0-910558-11-6 .
• Treasures from the Book of Mormon . Vol. 2: Enos through Alma 29. Ensign Pub., Salt Lake City 1995. ISBN 0-934364-17-6 .
• Treasures from the Book of Mormon . Vol. 3: Alma 30 to 3 Nephi 7. Ensign Pub., Salt Lake City 1995. ISBN 0-934364-19-2
• Treasures from the Book of Mormon . Vol. 4: 3 Nephi 8 through Moroni 10. Ensign Pub., Salt Lake City 1995. ISBN 0-934364-19-2 .
• The Majesty of God's Law. It's coming to America . Ensign Publishing Co, Salt Lake City 1996. ISBN 978-0-934364-20-1 .
• The five thousand year leap: 28 great ideas that changed the world . 30 year anniversary ed. American Documents Publishing, LLC, Franklin, TN, 2009.
• Days of the Living Christ . Volume 2. The Ensign Publishing co. 1998. ISBN 978-0-916095-47-5 .
• The naked communist . Buccaneer Books, Cutchoque, NY [2009], c1961.
• The Cleansing of America . Valor Publishing Group, 2010. ISBN 978-1-935546-21-4 .
• The Majesty of God's Law. It's coming to America . 2nd edition. Ensign Publishing Company, 2010. ISBN 978-0-934364-20-1 .

Sound recordings

• Communism in education . Tape.
• Building balanced children; an address to parents, educators, doctors, and psychiatrists LP. Key Records, Los Angeles 1961.
• Instant insanity drugs . LP. Key Records, Los Angeles 1967.
• The Ten Commandments; a timely commentary by W. Cleon Skousen . Key Records [196-?].
• Ages of youth . Cassette, c1975.
• A new and promising approach to American criminal justice . Cassette. BYU Sound Services, Provo 1977.
• The 1980 election: what it means to the American people . Freeman Forum interview by Michael Bennett. Cassette. Freeman Institute, Salt Lake City 1980.
• The miracle of America: a study course on the United States Constitution . Cassette. Freemen Institute, Salt Lake City 1980.
• The “Miracle of America”: an exciting study of the American heritage and the constitution of the United States . Cassette. The Freemen Institute, Salt Lake City 1980/81.
• The Eldridge Cleaver story: an interview with Eldridge Cleaver . Cassette. Freeman Institute, Salt Lake City 1981.
• The real story of Christmas . Read by Francis L. Urry. Compact cassette. Ensign Pub., Riverton, Utah 1981.
• The ten commandments today . Cassette. Sounds of Zion, Midvale, UT, 1983.
• Prophecy and modern times . Cassette. Ensign Pub. Co., Salt Lake City 1983.
• Treasures from the Book of Mormon. Volume one. First Nephi-Mosiah 1. A complete audio commentary . Read by Wendell Noble. Cassette. Ensign Pub., Salt Lake City 2000.
• Treasures from the Book of Mormon. Volume two. Mosiah 2-Alma 63. A complete audio commentary . Read by Wendell Noble. Cassette. Ensign Pub., Salt Lake City 2000.
• Treasures from the Book of Mormon. Volume three. Helaman-Moroni. A complete audio commentary . Read by Wendell Noble. Cassette. Ensign Pub., Salt Lake City 2000.
• A personal search for the meaning of the atonement . CD. Ensign Productions, Provo 2002.
• Sermon on the mount and Last days in the life of the savior . CD. Ensign Productions, Provo 2002.
• The real story of Christmas . CD. Sounds of Zion, Sandy, Utah 2005.
• The 5000 year leap: a miracle that changed the world . CD. National Center for Constitutional Studies, Malta, ID, 2007.
• The cleansing of America . CD. Read by Harold D. Skousen. Ensign Pub., Riverton, UT 2010.
• The majesty of God's law: it's coming to America . CD. Read by Harold D. Skousen. Ensign Pub., Riverton, UT 2011.

Videos

• The miracle of America . VHS. National Center for Constitutional Studies, West Jordon, Utah 1980.
• Prophecy (= Visit Israel with Dr. W. Cleon Skousen, v.1). VHS, Living Scriptures, Ogden 1985.
• The last days in the life of Jesus (= Visit Israel with Dr. W. Cleon Skousen, v.2). VHS. Living Scriptures, Ogden 1985.
• The ministry and miracles of Jesus (= Visit Israel with Dr. W. Cleon Skousen, v.4). VHS. Living Scriptures, Ogden 1985.
• The annunciation and nativity (= Visit Israel with Dr. W. Cleon Skousen, v.5). VHS. Living Scriptures, Ogden 1985.
• The Lehi cave (= Visit Israel with Dr. W. Cleon Skousen, v.6). VHS. Living Scriptures, Ogden 1985.
• A personal search for the meaning of the atonement . DVD. Ensign Video Productions, Riverton, Utah 2003.

Others

• with Jay A. Parry, William P. Harrell and the National Center for Constitutional Studies: USIQ quiz game . National Center for Constitutional Studies, Washington, DC c1986.
• The 5000 year leap: a miracle that changed the world . Multimedia CD for Mac / PC. National Center for Constitutional Studies, Washington, DC 2007.
• as editor: Arthur J. Stansbury: A catechism on the US Constitution: 332 questions with basic answers every citizen should know . eBook. The National Center for Constitutional Studies, Malta, Idaho 2009.

Web links

• Ernie Lazar's website on Skousen's relationship with the FBI
• Alexander Zaitchik: “ Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life ”, Salon.com , September 16, 2009.
• Tim Murphy, “ Mitt Romney's Nutty Professor, ” Mother Jones , April 30, 2012.
• Sean Wilentz , “ Confounding Fathers: The Tea Party's Cold War Roots, ” The New Yorker , October 18, 2010.
• Steve Benson , “ From Commie Basher To Rock 'n Roll Trasher: The Legacy Of The Late, Latter-Day Looney Cleon Skousen, ” The Mormon Curtain , January 21, 2006.
• Carrie A. Moore, “ Skousen evoked strong feelings, ” Deseret News , Jan. 11, 2006.
• Jeffrey Rosen, “ Radical Constitutionalism, ” The New York Times , Nov. 26, 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joe O'Connor: “ Alberta Mormon gains notoriety thanks to the Tea Party movement ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2013) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. " National Post , November 2 of 2010. 
2. ^ ^{A b} Mary Barker: Mitt, Moochers, and Mormonism's “Other” Legacy ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Religion Dispatches , September 21, 2012. 
3. ^ ^{A b c} Sean Wilentz : " Confounding Fathers: The Tea Party's Cold War Roots, " The New Yorker , October 18, 2010.
4. ↑ “ Obituary: W. Cleon Skousen, ” Deseret News , Jan. 13, 2006.
5. ↑ For example, in a speech on October 16, 1961 at the Hollywood's Answer to Communism event organized by Fred Schwarz at the Hollywood Bowl : http://vimeo.com/18891752
6. ↑ Assessments and quotations from Lazar.
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Guide to the Ernie Lazar FBI FOIA Files on Anti-Communism and Right Wing Movements TAM. 576 , Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives
8. ↑ ^{a b} Alexander Zaitchik: " Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life ," Salon.com , September 16 of 2009.
9. ↑ For a report on one of these seminars, see Stephanie Mencimer: “ One Nation Under Beck, ” Mother Jones , May / June 2010 Issue; see. also Mencimer: “ The Tea Party Wants to Teach Your Kids About the Constitution ”, Mother Jones , May 12, 2011; “ Legal Advocates Slam Tea Party Constitution Classes, ” Mother Jones , May 13, 2011; “ Liberals Fight Tea Party on Constitution Day, ” Mother Jones , September 16, 2011.
10. ^ Garrett Epps, " All Patriots 'Know' That Moses Wrote the Constitution, " The Atlantic , October 29, 2010.
11. ↑ ^{a b} Jeffrey Rosen: “ Radical Constitutionalism, ” The New York Times , November 26, 2010.
12. ^ ^{A b} Gary Nelson: “ Distorted book is bad history, poses its own tyranny, ” The Arizona Republic , September 19, 2010.
13. ↑ Where does Ronald Reagan really stand? : address . Freemen Institute, Salt Lake City, 1983.
14. ↑ Tim Steller, “ Sheriff Mack wielding new weapon: a message, ” Arizona Daily Star , April 5, 2011; see also Ryan Lenz: “ Former Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack Seeks 'Army' of Sheriffs to Resist Federal Authority ”, Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Report, Winter 2012, Issue Number: 148.
15. ↑ ^{a b} Alexander Zaitchik: " Fringe Mormon Group Makes Myths with Glenn Beck's Help ", Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Report, Spring 2011 Issue Number: 141st
16. ↑ See Katherine Bishop: “ Bicentennial Panel in California Assailed Over 'Racist' Textbook ”, The New York Times , February 16, 1987; also Simon Maloy: “ Beck guru Skousen's 'story of slavery' suggests slave owners were 'worst victims of the system' ”, Media Matters for America , September 30, 2009.
17. ↑ Ken Camp, “ Unlikely allies weave myth of Christian America, historian says, ” The Baptist Standard , May 23, 2011; see also Bruce Gourley: “ Bapto-Mormons: A Heritage Hijacked ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ” Baptists Today , May 24, 2011. 
18. ^ Paul Parkinson and Karl Cates, " Backers Tried in Vain to Recover Losses, " Deseret News , July 26, 1994; A little later, Doughty was investigated by the state of Utah, see Paul Parkinson and Karl Cates: “ UTAH SECURITIES DIVISION LAUNCHES PROBE INTO CONSTITUTIONALIST'S BUSINESS DEALINGS, ” Deseret News , August 4, 1994.
19. ↑ Nicholas Riccardi, “ Arizona's relentless conservative voice, ” Los Angeles Times , Jan. 17, 2011.
20. ^ Sarah Posner, " The Skousen Admiration Club, " The American Prospect , Sept. 21, 2009.
21. ↑ Congressional Record 109th Congress (2005–2006) // TRIBUTE TO W. CLEON SKOUSEN - (Senate - January 25, 2006) // http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r109: S25JA6-0019: /
22. ↑ Jonathan Martin, “ Mitt unplugged, ” Politico , August 4, 2007.
23. ^ Mark Hemingway, " Romney's Radical Roots, " National Review Online , Aug. 6, 2007.
24. ↑ E.g. Tim Murphy: “ Mitt Romney's Nutty Professor ”, Mother Jones , April 30, 2012. Critical about this Joanna Brooks: “ How NOT to Investigate Mitt Romney's Mormon Ties  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatic marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ”, Religion Dispatches , May 2, 2012.  
25. ↑ Sharon Haddock, " Beck's backing bumps Skousen book to top, " Deseret News , March 21, 2009.
26. ↑ See Simon Maloy: “ Glenn Beck and the paranoid style ”, Media Matters for America , December 18, 2009 and also Maloy: “ Glenn Beck's Bircher Bona Fides ”, Media Matters for America , February 9, 2011; see also “ Beck and actress Janine Turner sing prices of book by discredited author Skousen ”, Media Matters for America , June 11, 2010; " Beck touts conspiracy theorist's book as" the best summary and idea of ​​what the founders believed " ", Media Matters for America , November 15, 2010; " Beck: Skousen's The 5000 Year Leap is" a book that woke me up " ", Media Matters for America , November 15, 2010.
27. ↑ David Frum: “ What Is Going On At Fox News? ”, FrumForum , March 16, 2009.
28. ↑ Matthew Continetti: “ The Two Faces of the Tea Party ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ”, The Weekly Standard , Jun 28, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 39. 
29. ↑ David Weigel: “ Rick Perry: 'You Can't Not Legislate Morality' ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ”, The Washington Independent , Sept. 19, 2009. 
30. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - see. Sara Israelsen-Hartley, “ Artist Jon McNaughton pulls political, religious art from BYU Bookstore, ” Deseret News , April 27, 2011. 
31. ↑ Joanna Brooks: “ Utah's New Senator And The Intellectual Decline Of LDS Conservatism ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ”, Religion Dispatches , December 2, 2010. 
32. ^ Julie Ingersoll, " Tea Party Patriots Pressure Public Schools to Adopt Skousen Curriculum, " Religion Dispatches , May 11, 2011;
33. ↑ Stephanie Mencimer, “ The Tea Party Wants to Teach Your Kids About the Constitution, ” Mother Jones , May 12, 2011; also Mencimer: “ Legal Advocates Slam Tea Party Constitution Classes ”, Mother Jones , May 13, 2011 and “ Liberals Fight Tea Party on Constitution Day ”, Mother Jones , September 16, 2011.
34. ↑ John Miller, “ Tea party targets schools for 'Constitution Week', ” Associated Press / Deseret News , May 25, 2011.