![]() In his mid-30s, he became a Jesuit priest. These days, Charles Gallagher is a history professor at Boston College.Ĭharles Gallagher also became Father Charles Gallagher. Maddow: Charles Gallagher disagreed with his professor on that. And it was those guns that were what caught Gallagher’s attention in the first place. government, they were all holding these big rifles in that front page newspaper photo. Those young men in the photo, accused of trying to violently overthrow the U.S. As one journalist, put it a, a playful plot. Just kind of crazies who really didn't have any real intent towards either lethality, or toward any kind of systematic overthrow of the U.S. Particularly magazine journalists, in writing stories about it, seemed to disregard these folks as being, kind of crackpots, was the main term used. Gallagher: And as I kept reading about the case, it seemed that the journalists at the time downplayed it. I mean, it sounded weird, but it seemed like maybe a serious threat to the country. ![]() To a young, undergraduate, Charles Gallagher, this sounded serious. ![]() Maddow: A group of armed, American men led by a Catholic Priest with a plot to overthrow the government of the United States, forgotten about and filed away in a stack of old newspapers.
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