Robert LeFevre was an American libertarian businessman, radio personality, and primary theorist of autarchism.
15 Facts About Robert LeFevre
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Robert LeFevre then worked at a variety of jobs during the Great Depression, such as acting and radio announcing.
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Robert LeFevre was a follower of the "I AM" movement from 1936 to 1940 or so.
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Robert LeFevre told how one day, when he was in the radio station studio, he was struck by the Great I AM presence, who spoke to him personally.
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Robert LeFevre claimed a number of supernatural experiences: driving a car while asleep for over twenty miles without an accident, leaving his physical body for a trip through the air to Mount Shasta, and seeing Jesus.
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Robert LeFevre then became radio and television broadcaster becoming involved in anti-leftist causes, including work for an anti-union organization named the Wage Earners Committee.
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The US Day Committee made headlines in 1954 when Robert LeFevre led an attack on the Girl Scout Handbook as having too many references to the United Nations.
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That same year LeFevre relocated to Colorado Springs and started to write editorials for R C Hoiles' Gazette-Telegraph.
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In 1956, Robert LeFevre founded the Freedom School, which he ran until 1973, in Larkspur, Colorado.
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Robert LeFevre added Rampart College, an unaccredited four-year school, in 1963.
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In 1979, Robert LeFevre selected Freedom School graduate Kevin Cullinane to take over the teaching of Freedom School Seminars, including the Milliken Contract.
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Robert LeFevre expanded its reach to include Sherman College, Wofford College, and individual seminars from coast to coast.
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Robert LeFevre believed that natural law is above the law of the state and that for American society to prosper economically, free-market reforms were essential.
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Robert LeFevre believed that bestowing the good deeds of society on its government was no different from rewarding criminals for abstaining from illegal activity.
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Robert LeFevre was famously a pacifist, and taught his brand of libertarianism during the 1960s at the Freedom School, later Rampart College.