Fred Koch and Sons

A smattering of articles about Fred C. Koch, John Birch Society founding members and his sons, David and Charles.

  • Read Fred C. Koch’s book A Business Man Looks at Communism at http://digilib.usm.edu where it is part of the University of Southern Mississippi Digital Collections
  • Background information on the Koch brothers: “Covert Operations: the billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama,” Jane Mayer. The New Yorker, August 30, 2010 on the web at http://newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer
  • Also on the Koch brothers: “The Forbes 400: The Richest People in America,” September 16, 2010 at forbes.com.
  • Koch brothers’ law suits: “The Curse on the Koch Brothers: One of the biggest family feuds in business history may soon come to a climax. You thought $1 billion could buy happiness? Not for these guys” by Brian O’Reilly and Patty De Llosa in Fortune, Feb. 17, 1997.
  • The John Birch Society celebrates its Koch ties in “Fred Koch: Oil Man Against Communism” by Charles Scaliger, June 10, 2011 at http://thenewamerican.com
  • Koch Brothers’ ties to Wisconsin “Billionaire Brothers’ Money Plays Role in Wisconsin Dispute” by Eric Lipton in the New York Times available at http://nytimes.com/2011/02/22/us/22koch.html?pagewanted=print
  • The Koch Brothers and sales to Iran in “Koch Brothers Flout Law with Secret Iran Sales” by Asjylyn Loder and David Evans in Bloomberg Markets Magazine, Oct. 3, 2011 at http://www.bloomberg.com/news