The Original Population Bomb (Part II of II)
by Michael Barker

The production of alarmist propaganda -- to get both the ruling class and the "unfit" on board with their program for change -- was the Hugh Moore Fund's forte, and throughout the 1960s the fund published a series of full-page advertisements in leading newspapers devoted to drawing attention to the population predicament by linking it to current political problems. Each advert was accompanied by a list of notable supporting signatories, with a 1964 advert, published shortly after President Johnson's "Great Society" speech being signed by people as diverse as the anti-racist anthropologist Ashley Montagu and the racist Nobel Prize winner, William Shockley