Blood and Politics (113 page)

18.
Leonard Zeskind, “Oklahoma Bombing Fails to Halt ‘Christian Patriots.’”
Searchlight
, March 1997.

19.
“Racial Slaying Prompts Probe,” Associated Press, December 11, 1995; James Brooke, “For Most G.I.’s Only Few Hints of Hate Groups,”
The New York Times
, December 21, 1995; Leonard Zeskind, “Skinhead Soldiers Arrested on Racist Murder Charges,”
Searchlight
, February 1996.

20.
Bill Morlin, “Indictment looms for Chevie Kehoe,”
The Spokesman Review
, December 12, 1997.

21.
“Indictment,”
United States of America v. Chevie O’Brien Kehoe, Daniel Lewis Lee, Faron Earl Lovelace
, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas; “Government’s Motion to Amend Notice of Intent to Seek a Sentence of Death,”
United States of America v. Chevie O’Brien Kehoe, Daniel Lewis Lee, Faron Earl Lovelace
, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas, LR-CR-97-243, August 20, 1998; “Kehoe Republic, Trail of Death Follows White Supremacist Gang,”
Intelligence Report
, Fall 1998.

22.
Bill Morlin, “Terror Suspect a Nuclear Expert,”
The Spokesman Review
, October 27, 1996; Kim Barker, “Bombing Suspects Held Without Bail: Judge Says Defendants Pose Risk if Released into Community,”
The Spokesman Review
, October 17, 1996; “Bomb Suspect Was Nuclear Plant Worker,”
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
, October 29, 1996 (Merrell worked on a nuclear submarine in the Navy and at an Arizona nuclear power plant).

23.
James Brooke, “Bombing Arrests Further N. Idaho’s Racist Reputation,”
The New York Times News Service
,
Idaho Statesman
, October 27, 1996; “Declare ye among the nations” statement.

24.
“Idolatry and Expiation at Baal-Peor,”
The JPS Torah Commentary: Numbers
, commentary by Jacob Milgrom (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1990), p. 215.

25.
Hoskins, “Phineas Priesthood,” in
War Cycles, Peace Cycles
(Lynchburg: Virginia Publishing Company, 1985), pp. 33–34; Richard Kelly Hoskins,
Vigilantes of Christendom: The Story of the Phineas Priesthood
(Lynchburg: Virginia Publishing Company, 1990); Leonard Zeskind (unsigned), “Beckwith to Be Tried Again for 1963 Evers Murder: Is Beckwith a Phineas Priest?”
The Monitor
, December 1991, p. 10.

26.
James P. Wickstrom, “Northeast Ohio Christian Posse Comitatus,” January 1991.

27.
“Klan History Rooted in American Spirit of Resistance,”
The Klansman
, March–April 1991, published by the Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

28.
“Suspect in Slaying of Evers Is Linked to Racist Group,”
The New York Times
, October 30, 1991.

43. (Re)Birth of the Council of Conservative Citizens

  
1.
Jerry Mitchell, “Carroll Has More Registered Voters Than People,”
The Clarion-Ledger
, June 9, 1991; Jerry Mitchell, “Beckwith Eligible to Vote in Carroll County,”
The Clarion-Ledger
, June 9, 1991. Mitchell also reported that Byron de la Beckwith was among those registered to vote in Mississippi while he was resident in a Tennessee jail. Beckwith was eventually convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.

  
2.
County and City Data Book 1983: A Statistical Abstract Supplement
, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, County population, education data, pp. 304–305.

  
3.
“Black Hawk Rally in Mississippi,”
Citizens Informer
26 (Summer 1995): 7.

  
4.
Peter Applebome, “Lott’s Close Walk to the South’s History of Segregation,”
The New York Times
, December 13, 2002 (for Lott’s vote on the King Holiday and the quote about Jefferson Davis); “A Partisan Conversation with Trent Lott,”
Southern Partisan
4, no. 4 (Fall 1984), Talking Points Memo Document Collection (
www.talkingpointsmemo.com
).

  
5.
“Trent Lott Addresses Carroll County Citizens Council Banquet,”
Citizens Informer
, May/June 1982, p. 5 (“The banquet concluded with President Brown presenting Congressman Lott with a plaque from the Council and a desk set of Confederate Flags for his office”).

  
6.
“Large Crowd Attends Meetings,”
Citizens Informer
23, no. 2 (Spring 1992).

  
7.
“Trent Lott Addresses Carroll County Citizens Council Banquet,”
Citizens Informer
, May–June 1982, p. 5, “Dignitaries introduced were . . . R. B. Patterson, founder; W. J. Simmons, Administrator . . . Honorable Leon Bramlett, unannounced candidate for governor . . . Circuit Judge Webb Franklin, candidate for Congress . . . State Senator Billy Lancaster . . . State Representatives Bunky Huggins, Mary Ann Stevens and Kenneth Williams. Special Guest introduced was Mrs. Ione Watson Lott, mother of Congressman Lott and a native of Carroll County . . . Senator Watson is the uncle of Congressman Lott”; “Additional Photos Taken at Carroll County Citizens Council Banquet,”
Citizens Informer
, July/August 1982, p. 5 (among those pictured: William Lord, Jr., Rep. Trent Lott, State Rep. Mary Ann Stevens, State Sen. Arnie Watson); “Carroll County Citizens Council Honors McGregor,”
Citizens Informer,
September/October 1982, p. 5 (“McGregor was president of the local council from 1966 through 1972 and was instrumental in laying the groundwork for Carroll Academy”).

  
8.
Tom P. Brady,
Black Monday
, published by Citizens Councils of America, July 23, 1954.

  
9.
“Dear Judge” letter, January 27, 1957, attached to Western Union telegram from Brady confirming Carto’s arrangements to speak at a council meeting in Fort Worth, Texas; Neil R. McMillen,
The Citizens’ Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction, 1954–64
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971), pp. 17, 265.

10.
McMillen,
The Citizens’ Council
, preface to the 1994 edition; “Council List,”
Citizens Informer,
November/December 1980, pp. 3, 11 (“Regular Contributing Writers & Coordinators” include Gordon Lee Baum [MO] and Bill Lord, Jr. [AR MS]); “Gordon Lee Baum, Attorney at Law,” advertisement,
Citizens Informer
25, no. 3 (1992): 2; “Head of England’s National Front Addresses Memphis Citizens Council,”
Citizen Informer
, July/August 1979, p. 5.

11.
“Sharks in the Mainstream,”
Intelligence Report
, Southern Poverty Law Center, no. 93 (Winter 1999), pp. 21–26; Fred C. Jenning, ed., “Promotional letter,” n.d., “The Citizens Informer is truly unique . . . Conservative Citizens Foundation, Council of Conservative Citizens, local chapters and Citizens Councils.”

12.
Jerry Mitchell, “Progress Cited in Racist Council’s Demise,”
The Clarion-Ledger
, January 24, 1994.

13.
“Council’s Growth Policy Working,”
The Council Reporter
4, no. 1 (Spring 1990).

14.
“A Genuine Conservative Movement,”
Citizens Informer,
Summer 1994, p. 3.

15.
“Unity Meeting Savors Victory,”
Citizens Informer
25, Winter/Dec. 1994, p. 1 (“State Senator Mike Gunn gave the Mississippi report . . .”); “MISS ELECTED OFFICIALS Speaking at C of CC Seminar on April 11 . . . Sen. Mike Gunn,”
Citizens Informer,
Spring 1992, p. 3; “William D. Lord Presenting C of CC Annual Certificate of Appreciation Awards to Members . . . Sen. MIKE GUNN (Miss.),”
Citizens Informer
24, no. 2 (1993), p. 3.

16.
“Sen. Gunn Receives the ‘Outstanding Legislator’ award,”
Citizens Informer
3, 1993, p. 6.

17.
“Duke’s Flier Jingled Like Cash, Not Racism, Gunn Says,”
The Clarion-Ledger
, November 26, 1991; “Mike Gunn Running for Congress, 3rd District,”
Citizens Informer
, Winter 1995/1996, p. 7 (“Sen. Gunn serves on the national CofCC Board of Directors”).

18.
Samuel Francis, “A Genuine Conservative Movement,”
The Washington Times
, July 15, 1994, p. A21; Mac Gordon, “Pat Buchanan to Visit Jackson for Gunn Fund-raising Event,”
The Clarion-Ledger,
April 7, 1995, p. 3B.

19.
“South Carolina CofCC Keeps on Charging,”
Citizens Informer
26 (Summer 1995), p. 4 (“Along with state chairman Dr. William Carter . . .”); “CofCC Activities in North Carolina,”
Citizens Informer
26 (Summer 1995), p. 4 (“State chairman A. J. Barker advises . . .”); “Right Agenda for Victory Set,”
Citizens Informer
24, no. 3 (1993), p. 1 (“. . . leading state figures, who gave stirring reports . . . Miss Hope Ann Lubrano, Louisiana”).

20.
Jared Taylor, “The Broader Context of Attacks on Our Flag,”
Citizens Informer
25 (Spring 1994), p. 9.

44. The Washington Times Fires Sam Francis

  
1.
Samuel Francis, “Standing Alone Out of NWO Uniform,”
The Washington Times
, September 29, 1995, p. A20.

  
2.
Samuel Francis, “The Rise and Fall of a Paleoconservative at the
Washington Times
(Part I),”
Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture
, April 1996, p. 35; Samuel Francis, “The Rise and Fall of a Paleoconservative at
The Washington Times
(Part II),”
Chronicles
, May 1996, p. 43.

  
3.
Samuel Francis,
Revolution from the Middle
(Raleigh, N.C.: Middle American Press, 1997), “About the Author” (“In 1989 and 1990, he received the Distinguished Writers Award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors”).

  
4.
Samuel Francis, “All Those Things to Apologize For,”
The Washington Times
, June 27, 1995, p. A23; reprinted in
Southern Partisan
, 1995, 3rd Quarter, as “Southern Baptist May Be on the Road to Liberalism”; Southern Baptist Convention, “Resolution on Racial Reconciliation on the 150th Anniversary of the Southern Baptist Convention,”
SBCnet
, June 1995.

  
5.
Dinesh D’Souza, “Racism: It’s a White (and Black) Thing, The Superiority Complex and Other Dangerous Similarities,”
The Washington Post
, September 24, 1995.

  
6.
Francis, “The Rise and Fall of a Paleoconservative at
The Washington Times
(Part I).”

  
7.
Paul Gottfried,
The Conservative Movement
, rev. ed. (Twayne Publishers, 1993), pp. 78–96; David Frum,
Dead Right
(New York: Basic Books, 1994), pp. 126–27.

  
8.
Gottfried,
The Conservative Movement,
rev. ed., pp. 152–64; Frum,
Dead Right
, pp. 124–58 (Frum does not use the term “paleoconservatism,” justifiably describing this phenomenon as “nationalism” instead).

9.
Francis, “The Rise and Fall of a Paleoconservative at
The Washington Times
(Part I),” p. 35 (“there are limits to what you can and should say . . . none is more crucial for preserving liberal control . . . than its taboos on open discussion of race . . .”).

10.
Paul Richert, “Populist Party Holds Big Nat’l Convention; American Nationalist Union Formed,”
The Nationalist Times
, pp. 3–5; Videotapes I & II of speeches given at Populist Party meeting on September 16, 1995.

11.
“Fighting Back . . . and Winning,”
Citizens Informer
27 (Winter 1995/1996), p. 1.

12.
Samuel Francis, “Roads to Revolution,”
Chronicles
, August 1995, p. 9.

13.
Monte Paulsen, “Buchanan Inc.,”
The Nation
, November 22, 1999.

14.
Monte Paulsen, “Milliken’s $2 Million Aided Buchanan Group,”
The State-Record
(Columbia, S.C.), March 13, 1996; Monte Paulsen, “Buchanan Inc., How Pat and Bay Built an Empire on Our Money,”
The State-Record
, November 22, 1999.

15.
Samuel Francis, “Culture and Power: Winning the Culture War,”
Revolution from the Middle
, pp. 174–87 (essay taken from a speech at the American Cause conference, May 15, 1993); Samuel Francis, “Religious Wrong,”
Revolution from the Middle
, pp. 205–12, (racial dispossession phrase on p. 211), essay originally published in
Chronicles
, December 1994.

45. Elections 1996: Pat Buchanan Roils the Republicans

  
1.
Jonathan Mahler, “Buchanan’s Breakout Stuns Party of Lincoln,”
Forward
, February 23, 1996 (“Reeling from Patrick Buchanan’s victory in the New Hampshire primary”); Ira Stoll, “Big Labor Balks at Buchanan Despite Blue-Collar Bravado,”
Forward
, February 23, 1996; “Labor Leader Calls Buchanan Workers’ Enemy,”
The New York Times
, February 22, 1996.

  
2.
“3,123,657 Vote,” sum of primary election results taken state by state,
The Almanac of American Politics 2000
, Michael Barone and Grant Ujifsa, National Journal, 1999.

  
3.
“Aide to Buchanan Steps Aside,”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
, February 16, 1996 (cites Pratt at St. Louis U.S. Taxpayers Party event in May 1995); Richard L. Berke, “Buchanan Aide Takes Leave Under Fire,”
The New York Times
, February 16, 1996; Bob Herbert, “The Company They Keep,”
The New York Times
, February 16, 1996.

  
4.
Judy Thomas, “Buchanan Aide Visited Tribute to Doctor Killer,”
The Kansas City Star
, February 27, 1996.

  
5.
“Sen. Phil Gramm and his Korean wife Wendy . . . He divorced a White wife to marry an Asiatic,” photo cutline,
The Truth at Last
387 (formerly
The Thunderbolt
, edited by Ed Fields, Marietta, Georgia); “Sen. Gramm Blasts TTAL,”
The Truth at Last
389.

  
6.
Douglas Frantz and Michael Janofsky, “Buchanan Drawing Extremist Support, and Problems Too,”
The New York Times
, February 23, 1996.