Weird Little Guys

CZM Rewind: An Accidental Nazi Rally

In 2017, an anti-Muslim nonprofit crowd-sourced the organization of a nationwide series of rallies. Many of the people who stepped up to help turned out to be well known white supremacists. Original Air Date: 2.13.25 Sources: https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2017/05/portland_suspect_in_2_slayings.html [https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2017/05/portland_suspect_in_2_slayings.html] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/27/portland-double-murder-white-supremacist-muslim-hate-speech [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/27/portland-double-murder-white-supremacist-muslim-hate-speech] https://islamophobia.org/special-reports/the-hate-that-act-for-america-wrought/ [https://islamophobia.org/special-reports/the-hate-that-act-for-america-wrought/] https://islamophobia.org/islamophobic-organizations/act-for-america/ [https://islamophobia.org/islamophobic-organizations/act-for-america/] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidnoriega/meet-the-charming-terrifying-face-of-the-anti-islam-lobby [https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidnoriega/meet-the-charming-terrifying-face-of-the-anti-islam-lobby] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/americas-most-anti-muslim-activist-is-welcome-at-the-white-house/520323/ [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/americas-most-anti-muslim-activist-is-welcome-at-the-white-house/520323/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Disorganized Crime, Pt. 4

In the final chapter of his life, Frank Smith really did start the whites only church he first proposed to George Lincoln Rockwell. Sources: https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/christian-identitys-new-role-extreme-right [https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/christian-identitys-new-role-extreme-right] https://gnet-research.org/2023/05/10/the-revitalisation-of-christian-identity-content-on-youtube-twitter-and-tiktok/ [https://gnet-research.org/2023/05/10/the-revitalisation-of-christian-identity-content-on-youtube-twitter-and-tiktok/] https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/01/31/Ex-Rhode-Island-mayor-sentenced-for-racketeering/5824696834000/ [https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/01/31/Ex-Rhode-Island-mayor-sentenced-for-racketeering/5824696834000/] https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/reporter/F2/975/975.F2d.17.92-1180.html [https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/reporter/F2/975/975.F2d.17.92-1180.html] https://law.justia.com/cases/nebraska/supreme-court/1989/946-0.html [https://law.justia.com/cases/nebraska/supreme-court/1989/946-0.html] https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/news/legacy-of-the-commander/article_c5ebf480-2fef-536c-aee8-11a2925441a0.html [https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/news/legacy-of-the-commander/article_c5ebf480-2fef-536c-aee8-11a2925441a0.html] https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/2016/08/12/from-malinowski-archives-sarault-linked-financially-to-pair-with-mob-nazi-ties/26059574007/ [https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/2016/08/12/from-malinowski-archives-sarault-linked-financially-to-pair-with-mob-nazi-ties/26059574007/] Sunshine, Spencer. (2024). Neo-Nazi terrorism and countercultural fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege. Taylor & Francis. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Disorganized Crime, Pt. 3

In 1965, Frank Smith was laying low in Maine after a failed mob hit nearly killed him. He reappeared a few months later in Virginia, acting as a body guard for his new best friend, the commander of the American Nazi Party. Sources: Schmaltz, William H. (2013). For Race And Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. River's Bend Press Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Rosenthal, A. M.; Gelb, Arthur (1967). One More Victim: The Life and Death of an American-Jewish Nazi. New York: New American Library https://omim.org/entry/253300 [https://omim.org/entry/253300] https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/10/us/ex-fbi-agent-is-charged-in-a-1981-gangland-killing.html [https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/10/us/ex-fbi-agent-is-charged-in-a-1981-gangland-killing.html] https://fbistudies.com/2016/06/14/the-paul-rico-case/ [https://fbistudies.com/2016/06/14/the-paul-rico-case/] https://www.congress.gov/event/107th-congress/house-event/LC16939/text [https://www.congress.gov/event/107th-congress/house-event/LC16939/text] https://www.congress.gov/committee-report/108th-congress/house-report/414/1 [https://www.congress.gov/committee-report/108th-congress/house-report/414/1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-fbi-agent-charged-in-mob-hit/ [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-fbi-agent-charged-in-mob-hit/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

The Other Rockwell

George Lincoln Rockwell was a nazi. Norman Rockwell was a painter. They didn't have much in common at all, but people can't seem to stop mixing them up. Sources: https://library.washu.edu/news/norman-rockwell-and-race-complicating-rockwells-legacy/ [https://library.washu.edu/news/norman-rockwell-and-race-complicating-rockwells-legacy/] https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal66-1301767 https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal66-1301767 [https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal66-1301767] https://www.nytimes.com/1966/10/06/archives/us-aide-attacks-bill-to-curb-riots-doar-in-house-testimony-doubts.html [https://www.nytimes.com/1966/10/06/archives/us-aide-attacks-bill-to-curb-riots-doar-in-house-testimony-doubts.html] https://www.smh.com.au/national/spy-or-nazi-20120331-1w52i.html [https://www.smh.com.au/national/spy-or-nazi-20120331-1w52i.html] Berger, Alan L. Review of American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party, and: Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana. Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 17 no. 1, 2003, p. 180-185 Gallagher, V., & Zagacki, K. S. (2005). Visibility and Rhetoric: The Power of Visual Images in Norman Rockwell’s Depictions of Civil Rights. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 91(2), 175–200. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Disorganized Crime, Pt. 2

When Frank Smith got out of prison in 1964, he went right back to working for the New England mafia. He also joined the American Nazi Party. And he had a dream that the two organizations could work together. Sources: https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-boston-irish-gang-wars-terrify-a-city/ [https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-boston-irish-gang-wars-terrify-a-city/] https://www.nytimes.com/1965/11/04/archives/the-boston-gang-war-a-deadly-web-of-revenge.html [https://www.nytimes.com/1965/11/04/archives/the-boston-gang-war-a-deadly-web-of-revenge.html] https://mattofboston.com/boston-gang-wars-the-first-irish-gang-war-mclaughlin-v-mclean-introduction/ [https://mattofboston.com/boston-gang-wars-the-first-irish-gang-war-mclaughlin-v-mclean-introduction/] https://golocal24.com/golocal-launches-the-patriarca-papers-the-fbi-files-on-the-man-that-led-the-new-england-crime-family-for-nearly-50-years/ [https://golocal24.com/golocal-launches-the-patriarca-papers-the-fbi-files-on-the-man-that-led-the-new-england-crime-family-for-nearly-50-years/] https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/pdfs-docs/origins/ms-littest55.pdf [https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/pdfs-docs/origins/ms-littest55.pdf] https://idahopotato.com/dr-potato/length-and-circumference-of-a-potato [https://idahopotato.com/dr-potato/length-and-circumference-of-a-potato] https://utia.tennessee.edu/cpa/wp-content/uploads/sites/106/2020/10/CPA-222.pdf [https://utia.tennessee.edu/cpa/wp-content/uploads/sites/106/2020/10/CPA-222.pdf] Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.