The Nazis of Copley Square lecture June 7 at Wright Museum

WOLFEBORO — The Wright Museum will welcome author Professor Charles R. Gallagher, S.J. on Tuesday, June 7 for a lecture on The Nazis of Copley Square. This is the fourth program of the Wright Museum’s 2022 Ron Goodgame and Donna Canney Education Series.

On January 13, 1940, FBI agents burst into the homes and offices of 17 members of the Christian Front, seizing guns, ammunition, and homemade bombs. J. Edgar Hoover’s charges were that the group planned to incite a revolution and install a “temporary dictatorship” in order to stamp out Jewish and Communist influence in the United States. This intriguing book chronicles the evolution of the front, the transatlantic cloak-and-dagger intelligence operations that subverted it, and the mainstream political and religious leaders who shielded the front’s activities from scrutiny.

Doors open at 6 p.m., the program begins at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 7 at the Wright Museum’s DuQuoin Education Center, 77 Center Street. Reservations are strongly encouraged and can be made online at www.wrigthmuseum.org/lecture-series or by calling 603-569-1212. Books will be available to purchase.

For more information about the 2022 Lecture Series, or museum, visit wrightmuseum.org.