With God On Our Side - Episode 2
With God On Our Side (series) • 56m
Directed by Calvin Skaggs and David Van Taylor • Documentary • 1996 • 60 minutes
The symbiotic alliance between Billy Graham and Richard Nixon foreshadows the coming union of religion and politics. The marriage is consummated in Kanahwa County, West Virginia, where national conservative strategists help escalate a local textbook controversy into a major conflagration of jailings, bombings, and a miners' strike. Meanwhile, Watergate teaches Graham the perils of political entanglement. But from Berkeley's Jesus People to Kanahwa's fundamentalists, the die has been cast -- and the Religious Right is born.
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With God On Our Side - Episode 5
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