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Young on r ight n ext to Sen. Johns in the committee (USF archive 196x) Johns Committee was created to track communists and other groups and based itself on the infamous McCarthy investigations

After ridicule and outrage from the production and distribution of the Purple Pamphlet, the Johns committee was reorganized. Young and Johns met in secret to continue investigating African Americans, Cubans and homosexuals. They published Racial and Civil Disorders in St. Augustine in 1965.

Sen. Young seen 2nd from the left in a hearing of the Johns committee (Florida Memory 1964) The Miami Herald interviews and publishes the story about the work of former FBI agent hired by the committee and a 27- year tenured gay professor who w as fired and attempted suicide, twice.

Rep. Young voted to delay the repeal of Dont Ask Dont Tell and for the Defense of Marriage Act

Supreme Court blocks Johns Committee requests for NAACP member lists

C.W. Bill Young elected to the Florida State Senate

Sen. Young officially on the Johns committee 62-64: 1959-62: 16 educators removed 1963: 110 total educators removed 1964: 200-250 total teachers questioned

1970 1969 1991

Knowing the heinous nature of their acts, Young and the other members of Committee, sealed their records. The brave acts of victims forced them open 30 years early.

1956 1957
Johns Committee requests NAACP member lists after reporting Communists had infiltrated their organization

1959 1960

1962 1963
Johns Committee successfully entrapped, Robert Delaney, a reporter critical of their work. Delaney is arrested and leaves the Orlando Sentinel.

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1993 2006

2009 2010

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The Johns Committee shifts focus and releases first report on subversive homosexuals

Sen. Young joins the Johns committee and their activity continues in full

Young elected to US Congress Sen. Young continues hateful activities when he spoke out against a group rallying to free a FSU student who had been arrested for activism (Florida Memories 1969)

Rep. Young voted against repealing Dont Ask Dont Tell Rep. Young voted against expanding the Federal Hate Crime Law Rep. Young voted for a Constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage

16 faculty members at UF forced out by the Johns Committee Back of Sen. Youngs head seen in front d uring a committee meeting of the Johns Committee (Florida Memory 1964)

Probe into nearby USF results in purge - changing the direction o f the fledgling college forever

"Our report tried to show it (homo-sexuality) in its true light - it's a very repulsive subject," Young said in 1964 on the release of the Purple Pamphlet. When the pamphlets photos of children and bondage were distributed as pornography Young said, This indicates how bold the homosexual is becoming and further proves the necessity of state government taking the lead

The Johns Committees records are officially opened, revealing over 30,000 pages and the true nature of the fear-driven, state sponsored, hate group and its Gestapo-type tactics. I was not a major part o f that committee, Young said in 1993. I came on in its closing days. But also said, Any committee Ive been appointed to, Ive served to the best of my ability. The documents and subsequent research showed his significant involvement in one of the d arkest times in Florida and Americas history.