AMERICA FIRST COMMITTEE COLLECTION OF BUTTONS & EPHEMERA.
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Winning Bid:
$1,103.30
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, March 19, 2024 9:00:00 PM)
Item Description
Program is 5.5x8.5". Membership card is 3x5". Pins are 7/8" to 1.75". Program is dated July 1, 1941, for event held at the Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. The speakers for the event included Charles Lindbergh, as well as Senator David Worth Clark of Idaho, and actress Lillian Gish, among others. Program has faint stain in bottom right corner, otherwise light scattered wear. Extremely Fine. Card is crisp w/bright color. Exc. Buttons have only light wear and are all Exc. The America First Committee was an isolationist group formed in 1940 to keep America out of WWII. It was controversial for some of the anti-Semitic and pro-fascist views held by some of the committee's leaders. It dissolved just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Although the America First Committee and Father Coughlin both held similar anti-interventionist views on entering the war, the AFC did try to distance itself from Coughlin over his anti-Semitic and pro-Hitler and Mussolini sympathies.
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