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19.
“Interrogatories,” filed by Giant Food March 15, 1963,
Carto v. Giant Food
.

20.
“Excerpt from Transcript of Proceedings Before Hon. Harrison L. Winter, Judge,” February 2, 1965,
Carto v. Giant Food
.

21.
“Looking Forward: A study of the new trend with the conservative movement,” first published by Liberty Lobby as “The Conservative Victory Plan” in March 1965. Leaflet for labor unions reproduced on pp. 24–25.

22.
W. B. Hicks, Jr., “Special Tenth Anniversary Report,” June 18, 1965.

23.
“Looking Forward,” p. 14.

24.
Ibid., p. 22.

25.
Ibid., p. 23.

26.
John C. Obert, “Yockey: Profile of an American Hitler,”
The Investigator
, p. 24, October 1981, publisher Jack Anderson; C. H. Simonds, “The Strange Story of Willis Carto,”
National Review
, September 10, 1971; Kevin Coogan,
Dreamer of the Day
,
Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International
(Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 1999); “Department of the Army memo,” G-2 SPS Halloran/mkm/gch/56419/grj, November 9, 1953, Yockey, Francis Parker: “He was honorably discharged on 14 July 1943 at Hq. Camp Gordon, Ga., by reason of Certificate of Disability due to dementia praecox, paranoid type, cause undetermined.”

27.
Kevin Coogan,
Dreamer of the Day
, pp. 468–77.

28.
Ulick Varange [Francis Parker Yockey],
Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics
(The Noontide Press, 1983). The quote about Jews is on p. 418.

29.
Anderson [Carto], “Cultural Dynamics,” republished in
Western Destiny
IX, no. 3 (August 1964): 10–13.

30.
Anderson [Carto], “Cultural Dynamics.”

31.
Willis Carto, “Introduction,” in Yockey,
Imperium
, p. ix.

32.
Willis Carto, “Introduction,” in Yockey,
Imperium
, p. xiv.

33.
John C. Obert, “Yockey: Profile of an American Hitler.”

34.
Willis Carto, “Introduction,” in Yockey,
Imperium
, p. xix.

35.
Willis Carto, “Introduction,” in
Imperium
, p. xlii.

36.
E. L. Anderson (aka Carto), “Cultural Dynamics.”

37.
“The Virtue of Tolerance,”
Western Destiny
, August 1964, p. 3.

38.
E. L. Anderson [Carto], “Dear Subscriber” letter of May 17, 1966,
Western Destiny
.

39.
David Duke, introduction of Willis Carto, Memorial Day weekend 2004.

40.
Wilmot Robertson, “Man, the Racist Animal,”
Western Destiny
, April 1966; Robertson, “Art and Aristocracy” Parts I & II,
Western Destiny
, January and February 1966; Richard Kelley Hoskins, “Organic Civilization,”
Western Destiny
, August 1965; Hoskins, “Two Controversial Ideas: A Glance at Yockey,”
Western Destiny
, July 1964.

41.
Don Warren, personal communication to author.

42.
Wilmot Robertson,
Dispossessed Majority
(Cape Canaveral, Fla.: Howard Allen Enterprises, 1976), pp. 79–80.

43.
Ibid., p. 16.

44.
Willis Carto, “Deposition of W. A. Carto,”
Liberty Lobby Inc. v. Dow Jones and Company, Inc.
, vol. 2, August 7, 1985, pp. 336–50.

45.
“Roger Pearson to Tour United States,”
Right
, June 1959, p. 1; Roger Pearson, foreword,
Eugenics and Race
(The Noontide Press, 1966), “This booklet comprises a selection of articles from the pages of Northern World.”

46.
Stephen Langton [Roger Pearson], “Judeo-Communist Influences in Western Art,”
The New Patriot
9, no. 1 (March 1967): 33.

47.
Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson,
Inside the League
, Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1986.

48.
“The 1963 Inaugural Speech of Governor George Wallace,” January 14, 1963, ADAH Alabama Department of Archives & History.

49.
Dan T. Carter,
The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), pp. 195–225; Jody Carlson,
George C. Wallace and the Politics of Powerlessness
(New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1981).

50.
Carter
, Politics of Rage
, p. 297.

51.
Ibid., p. 295.

52.
Asa Carter was Wallace’s speechwriter; Klansman Robert Miles was the Michigan state chairman; William K. Shearer in California, White Citizens Council leader William Simmons, Kent Courtney, and Leander Perez were all part of the inner circle; see Carter,
Politics of Rage
.

53.
Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab,
The Politics of Unreason: Right-Wing Extremism in America, 1790–1970
(New York: Harper & Row, 1970); “no ideological racism” on p. 351; Gallup data on youth vote on p. 367; Yankelovitch data on class nature of vote on pp. 365–69.

54.
Michael D. Russell, “Deposition of Michael D. Russell,”
Liberty Lobby Inc. vs. American Lobby Inc. et al.
, Civil Action no. 1286-70, December 21, 1970.

55.
Frank P. Mintz,
The Liberty Lobby and the American Right: Race, Conspiracy and Culture
(Greenwood Press), p. 129.

56.
John Accord, “Affidavit of John Accord,” signed May 14, 1969.

57.
Ibid., p. 6; Dennis C. McMahon, “Affidavit,” May 10, 1969; Accord and McMahon, “Neo-Nazi Movement Revealed as Dangerous Threat,” June 18, 1969.

58.
C. H. Simonds, “The Strange Story of Willis Carto,”
National Review
, September 10, 1971.

59.
Western Destiny Bookstore, n.d. (booklist from this period lists “Imperium by Francis Parker Yockey, Paperback”); Paul W. Valentine, “The Student Right: Racist Martial,”
The Washington Post
, n.d. (“reproduced from . . . Special Collections Knight Library, University of Oregon”).

60.
Revilo Pendleton Oliver, “Dear Colonel Dall” letter, December 17, 1970.

2. William Pierce, National Socialism, and the National Youth Alliance

  
1.
W.L.P. [William Pierce], “The Radicalizing of an American,”
Best of Attack! and National Vanguard Tabloid
(National Alliance, 1984). William Pierce, “Interview with James Ridge-way for MSNBC-Edgewise,” n.d., Media Transcripts, Inc.; Will Blythe, “The Guru of White Hate,”
Rolling Stone
, June 8, 2000; Roger S. Griffin,
The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds: An Up-Close Portrait of White Nationalist William Pierce
, copyright 2000, pp. 26–32, originally available via Internet download.

  
2.
“The Radicalizing of an American,”
Best of Attack! and National Vanguard Tabloid
, pp. 124–26, from no. 61, 1978.

  
3.
FBI 157-1673, Richmond Field Office File, “William Luther Pierce,” January 30, 1967; the FBI developed a detailed profile of Pierce’s education, employment, and residential history; W.L.P. [William Pierce], “The Radicalizing of an American,”
Best of Attack! and National Vanguard Tabloid
; Griffin,
Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds
, pp. 26–36.

  
4.
W.L.P., “The Radicalizing of an American,” p. 124.

  
5.
Ibid.

  
6.
FBI 157-1673, William Luther Pierce, November 21, 1966; FBI 157-1673, January 30, 1967, p. 6–8, “Employment” (new material was appended to this file over time).

  
7.
FBI 157-1673, January 30, 1967 (describes Pierce’s attachment to Rockwell and national socialism, as well as his absence from American Nazi Party activities. Includes the move to Virginia).

  
8.
William Pierce, “Deposition,” September 22, 1995,
Connie Mansfield, Personal Representative of the Estate of Harold Mansfield, on behalf of herself and the Estate v. William Pierce
, U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina Bryson City Division Civil Action No. 2: 95CV62, pp. 12–21; Southern Poverty Law Center filed this lawsuit after a white supremacist murdered a black sailor in Jacksonville;
The New York Times
, May 20, 1996. Ms. Mansfield was awarded $85,000.

  
9.
Dennis Roddy, “Hate was in his blood but not in his genes,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, August 28, 2002, “His family was of no importance to him,” [son] Kelvin Pierce [said].

10.
FBI 157-13485, “William Pierce,” September 21, 1972, “PIERCE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED POSSIBLY ARMED AND DANGEROUS [caps in original]”; FBI 157-13485, “William Luther Pierce,” April 23, 1970, pp. 19–20; NS Arms was registered with ATF but business had “practically folded up due to recent legislation.”

11.
George Simonelli,
American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999), pp. 104–40; William H. Schmaltz,
Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party
(Washington, D.C.: Batsford Brassey, 1999).

12.
FBI 157-13485, “William Luther Pierce,” May 16, 1971, “Summary of Subject’s Propaganda Activities,” pp. 6–14; “Nazi Lecturer Urges: Shoot the President,” April 10, 1970; FBI memo from Director to U.S. Secret Service, “William L. Pierce, Threat Against the President,” April 12, 1970.

13.
John Tyndall, “Letter to William L. Pierce,” March 23, 1967.

14.
FBI 157-13486, “William Luther Pierce,” May 18, 1971, pp. 12–14, selections from Pierce’s “Prospectus for a National Front,” August 31, 1970.

15.
“Mailing List Theft Laid to Lobbyist,”
The Washington Post
, October 1, 1971.

16.
FBI 157-13485, “William Luther Pierce,” August 19, 1975; National Youth Alliance incorporated in Virginia on October 14, 1970, charter no. 128608.

17.
William Pierce, “Since December of last year a determined and intensive campaign has been waged to destroy the National Youth Alliance . . . our response . . . civil action 475-51 in I.S. District Court for the District of Columbia,” n.d.

18.
“A Few Facts about Willis A. Carto,”
News from the National Youth Alliance
[Pierce Faction]. This ten-page mailing contained “Exhibits A–H.”

19.
“A Few Facts About Willis Carto.” Exhibit B showed a portion of the “Deed of Trust.”

20.
“News from the National Youth Alliance,” n.d.

21.
C. H. Simonds, “The Strange Story of Willis Carto,”
National Review
, September 10, 1971.

22.
Liberty Lobby, Inc. vs. National Review, Inc.
, U.S. District Court District of Columbia, Civil Action 79-3445;
Los Angeles Times
, November 26, 1986. Judge Robert J. Ward dismissed the libel suit.

23.
National Youth Alliance,
Action
newsletter, March 1971, April 1971, May 1971.

24.
FBI 157-6353, “William L. Pierce,” February 11, 1972; files include clips from George Washington University,
The Hatchet
, February 7, 1972, “Ex-Nazi Assailed by Eggs, Stinkbomb”; “Award of Damages,”
The Washington Post
, April 25, 1973, p. A-34.

25.
Robert Lloyd, National Organizer, “Open Letter to a Student Activist,” National Alliance
Action
newsletter, March 1971.

26.
William Pierce,
National Alliance Bulletin
, February–March 1978, p. 1.

27.
“Revolutionary Notes,”
Attack!
, no. 12 (1972), reprinted in
The Best of Attack! and National Vanguard
, p. 13.

28.
“Why Revolution,”
Attack!
no. 6, 1971, reprinted in
The Best of Attack! and National Vanguard
, pp. 9–10.

29.
Revilo Pendleton Oliver, “Dear Colonel Dall” letter, December 17, 1970.

30.
George Thayer,
The Further Shores of Politics: The American Political Fringe Today
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1967).

31.
Randall Williams, ed., “Comparative Klan Strengths,”
The Ku Klux Klan: A History of Racism and Violence
, Klanwatch Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, 1981, p. 23. The data in that report was from the U.S. Justice Department figure and the Anti-Defamation League. In 1971 it counted 4,500 Klansmen, in 1974 there were 1,500; Neil R. McMillen,
The Citizens’ Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction, 1954–64
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994); Benjamin R. Epstein and Arnold Forster,
The Radical Right: Report on the John Birch Society and Its Allies
(New York: Random House, 1967).

32.
FBI 157-13485, “William Luther Pierce,” August 19, 1975, National Alliance was incorporated on February 26, 1974.

33.
“National Alliance: New Superstructure for Movement,”
Attack!
February 1974, p. 4.

34.
Nick Camerota, “Nick’s Observations-Requiem for the Right,”
Attack!
no. 46, 1976, reprinted in
The Best of Attack! and National Vanguard
, p. 75.

3. The Turner Diaries and Resurgence

  
1.
“Does America Deserve to Live?,”
The Best of Attack! and National Vanguard
, p. 57; “Jews, the USSR, and Communism,”
The Best of Attack! and National Vanguard
, p. 64.

  
2.
Author, recollection of the first edition, standard pocketbook-size paperback, 200 pages;
The Best of Attack! and National Vanguard
, p. 81; Charles Ashman, “The American Nazi Floating Crap Game,”
St. Louis Today
, July 26–August 10, 1974, p. 9.

  
3.
Andrew Macdonald [William Pierce],
The Turner Diaries
2nd ed. (National Alliance, September 1980).

  
4.
“Sexuality in a Sick Society,”
National Vanguard
, January 1983, p. 17; “A Search for Values: Toward a White Ethic,”
National Vanguard
, August 1982, p. 13; an author is not listed on either piece, but both bear the unmistakable imprints of Pierce’s writing style during those years. “Feminism,”
Membership Handbook for Members of the National Alliance
(National Vanguard Books, 1993), pp. 39–42.

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