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://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://www.congress.gov/event/107th-congress/house-event/LC16939/text https://www.congress.gov/committee-report/108th-congress/house-report/414/1 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-fbi-agent-charged-in-mob-hit/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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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.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.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. 180-185Gallagher, 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 for privacy information.
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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://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://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://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 Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois PressSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Disorganized Crime, Pt. 1
Before he joined the American Nazi Party in 1965, Frank Smith was already a career criminal working for the New England mafia.Sources:https://www.nytimes.com/1952/05/06/archives/friend-of-sutton-seized-as-suspect-in-schuster-death-armed-burglar.htmlhttps://www.ellsworthamerican.com/news/legacy-of-the-commander/article_c5ebf480-2fef-536c-aee8-11a2925441a0.html Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.https://law.justia.com/cases/massachusetts/supreme-court/1961/342-mass-180-2.html https://time.com/archive/6618452/people-visions/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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George Lincoln Rockwell's Coffin Flop
When the commander of the American Nazi Party died, he left instructions with his successor. He wanted the military funeral he was entitled to as an American veteran. It didn't go well.Sources:https://snccdigital.org/events/protests-danville-virginia/https://www.thejc.com/life/lawyer-who-helped-a-loving-couple-nn57y8cthttps://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article120224913.htmlhttps://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/philip_hirschkop_peta_social_justicehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/08/21/the-shadow-of-an-assassinated-american-nazi-commander-hangs-over-charlottesville/Schmaltz, William H. (2013). For Race And Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. River's Bend PressSimonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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