George Lincoln Rockwell timeline

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Below is a timeline of significant events in the life of George Lincoln Rockwell.

"I knew I would not live to see the victory which I would make possible, but I would not die before I had made that victory certain."

- This Time The World, Chapter 15

1918-1945

1918

March 9, 1918 - George Lincoln Rockwell is born in Bloomington, Illinois to parents George Lovejoy Rockwell and Claire Schade Rockwell.

1919-1937

Travels with his vaudeville parents in Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, California, but mostly lives in Boothbay Harbor, Maine.

1938

Rockwell attends a prep school, Hebron Academy, Lewiston, Maine and is introduced to liberal and communist ideas.

1939-1940

Rockwell enters Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in the fall during a hurricane.

1941

March 15, 1941 - Rockwell enlists in U.S. Navy at Boston, Massachusetts as Seaman 2nd Class and attends flight school.
June 12, 1941 - Rockwell is appointed Aviation Cadet, U.S. Naval Reserve
October 16, 1941 - Rockwell is commissioned as Ensign (Naval Aviator).
December 7, 1941 - The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor.

1942

October 1, 1942 - Rockwell is promoted in rank to Lieutenant, junior grade.

Rockwell flew from the USS Omaha, Wasp and was Senior Aviator aboard the Mobile.

1943

April 24, 1943 - Marries his college sweetheart Judith Aultman in Barrington, Rhode Island.
October 1, 1943 - Rockwell is promoted in rank to Lieutenant

1944

July - August, 1944 - Rockwell was Air Support Commander at Guadalcanal and during invasion of Guam. [1]

1945

August 15, 1945 - The Japanese surrender (VJ Day)
October 3, 1945 - Rockwell is promoted to Lieutenant Commander.
November 22, 1945 He is released from active duty as Commanding Officer of SOSU-1, Pearl Harbor, having earned nine decorations. [2]

1945-1958

1945

Rockwell and his wife settle in East Boothbay, Maine.

1946

In May or June he opens a business, Maine PhotoArt Service. Later that fall, they move to Mount Vernon, New York where their first child Bonnie is born. Rockwell takes classes in commercial art at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.

1947

In the summer he returns to his business in East Boothbay and later that fall studies at Pratt in New York City.

1948

He wins a national prize offered by New York Society of Illustrators for creating an ad for the American Cancer Society.

1949

Rockwell starts Maine Advertising, Inc. in Portland, Maine; later they moves to Lewiston, Maine where their second child Nancy is born. The family moves back to Portland where Rockwell starts Rockwell Publishing Company, Inc. and publishes a tourist guide called What Next?

1950

June 25, 1950 - The Korean War begins.
September 21, 1950 - The US Navy recalls Rockwell to active duty as a Lieutenant Commander. He is to report to San Diego within ten days where he will train new pilots. His wife and the two children move in with Judy’s grandmother in Hadlyme, Connecticut; later the family is reunite in San Diego.

1951

April 11, 1951 - President Truman relives General MacArthur of command of United Nations troops in Korea.

In San Diego, Rockwell is introduced to anti-Jewish political newspapers like Common Sense when he becomes politically active in the draft General Douglas MacArthur for President campaign. Rockwell attends a speech by Gerald L.K. Smith in Los Angeles, California.

Rockwell reads the Protocols and finds a copy of Mein Kampf in an San Diego used bookstore. Upon reading the words of Adolf Hitler, Rockwell becomes a National Socialist. Rockwell is inspired to write his first “political” work, the Fable of the Ducks and the Hens.

Rockwell's third daughter, Phoebe Jean, is born in the San Diego Naval Hospital.

1952

November, 1952 - Rockwell receives orders to report to Norfolk, Virginia and learns his next Naval assignment will be Iceland. Iceland did not permit families to join the servicemen stationed there. Judy and the children move near her mother’s home in Barrington, Rhode Island. They later divorce.

Rockwell studies Mein Kampf and begins to correspond with writers who appear in The American Mercury and Common Sense.

Rockwell meets Thora Hallgrimsson at a diplomatic party in Reykjavik, Iceland

1953

July 27, 1953 - An armistice is signed in Korea.
October 3, 1953 - Rockwell marries Thora Hallgrimsson at the National Cathedral in Reykjavik. They honeymoon in Berchtesgaden, Germany.

1954

February 1, 1954 - Rockwell is promoted to the rank Commander.
May - Rockwell's first son Lincoln is born at the base hospital in Iceland.
October 20, 1954 - Rockwell is released from active duty with the rank Commander
December 15, 1954 - Rockwell returns to civilian life. [3]

1955

Rockwell, Thora, her son Rickey, and Lincoln move to Bailey's Island, Maine.
The family moves to an old plantation home in Virginia outside of Washington DC near Warrenton.
September, 1955 - Rockwell commutes to Washington to work on his new women’s magazine U.S. Lady.
They find a small apartment on Connecticut Avenue inside of Washington D.C.
A daughter Jeannie Margaret, was born in the George Washington University Hospital in the District of Columbia. [4]
Rockwell forms a paper orgainzation in an attempt to unite the right wing called American Federation of Conservative Organizations.

1956

July 4, 1956 - the American Federation of Conservative Organizations holds its last meeting. [5]

1957

Winter 1957 - Rockwell has a series of dreams inwhich all end with him meeting Hitler. [6]

1958

Rockwell with the help of financial backer Harold N. Arrowsmith, Jr. forms the "National Committee to Free America from Jewish Domination" and moves to 6512 Williamsburg Blvd., Arlington, Virginia. [7]

In the summer of 1958 Rockwell and Matt Koehl worked on the Alabama gubernatorial campaign of Admiral Crommelin.

July 29, 1958 - Rockwell stages his first public protest in front of the White House with a sign which read "SAVE IKE FROM THE KIKES." [8] Similar protests occur in Atlanta, Georgia and Louisville, Kentucky.
July 29 or 30, 1958 - Arrowsmith introduces Rockwell to Egypt’s head of secret service.
October 12, 1958 - The Atlanta synagogue is bombed. Newspapers suggest Rockwell and his group may be involved. Harold Arrowsmith ends his finacial support of Rockwell and his family.
Late 1958 - Thora and the children move back to Iceland.

1959-1967

1959

March 1959 - Rockwell formed the World Union of Free Enterprise National Socialists and receives a 18-foot-long swastika banner in the mail from supporter, James K. Warner.
December 1959 - Rockwell changes the name of his group to the American Nazi Party and moves his headquarters to a building purchassed by supporter Floyd Fleming at 928 North Randolph Street in Arlington, Virginia.

1960

February 1, 1960 - Rockwell appeared before a hearing of Department of the Navy and defended himself against charges he improperly used his Naval rank of Commander to foster racial and religious hatred.
February 5, 1960 - Rockwell is discharged from the Naval Reserve a few months short of twenty years to receive military retirement.
March 19, 1960 - Rockwell attended the national convention of the NSRP in Dayton, Ohio.
April 3, 1960 - Rockwell holds his first Nazi rally on the Mall at Constitution and 9th Steets, between the US Capitol and Washington Monument in Washington DC.
May 1960 - The National Socialist Bulletin is issued. [9] It later becomes The Stormtrooper magazine. [10]
June, 1960 - Photo of Rockwell at an ANP rally in Washington DC. [11]
June 22, 1960 - Rockwell presents his argument before a court hearing in New York for a permit to stage a rally at Union Square on July 4th. After the hearing, Rockwell gives a press conference and is assaulted by Jews in the presence of the news media. Rockwell was later indicted for incitement to riot on a warrant which remained open for years. [12]
June 23, 1960 - Rockwell is escorted out of New York City failing to get his permit for the rally. [13]
July 3,1960 - "Riot on the Mall", Rockwell Rockwell and seventeen troopers are arrested outside of United States District Court building. Rockwell is committed to thirty days observation in D.C. General Hospital's psychiatric ward.
July 26, 1960 - Rockwell is on trial in District of Columbia Municipal Court.
August 4, 1960 - Rockwell is released from psychiatric ward, judged sane.

1961

January 15, 1961 - Rockwell and three other party members picket outside a movie theater showing Exodus in Boston. Police take the four into protective custody to prevent violence from counter protesters. [14]
May 22, 1961 - Rockwell's "Hate Bus" travels into the South toward New Orleans to confront Negro Freedom Riders. On the sides of the bus are signs which read "LINCOLN ROCKWELL'S HATE BUS," "WE DO HATE RACE MIXING" and "WE HATE JEW-COMMUNISM." [15]
May 23, 1961 - Rockwell and his bodyguard Roy James fly into New Orleans. The next day they picket outside the movie premier of Exodus. [16]
May 24, 1961 - Rockwell and James are arrested outside the theater due to pressure from local Jews. The police also arrest the eight remaining stormtroopers.
June 1. 1961 - Rockwell is out on bail.
June 13, 1961 - The trial begins in New Orleans and last two days. All ten are convicted on criminal mischief charges and sentenced to 30 to 60 days in jail. The next year the US Supreme Court strikes down the criminal mischief statute.
June 25, 1961 - Rockwell and party members attend a Nation of Islam rally in Washington DC in an attempt to form an alliance with the Black Muslims. [17]
September 17, 1961 - The local paper Virginian Pilot runs a major feature on Rockwell and the ANP ignoring the American Jewish Committee’s “quarantine” policy on Rockwell.
October 1961 - The first Rockwell Reports appeare.

1962

January 1962 - Rockwell again applies for a permit to hold a rally--this time on April 20, Hitler’s birthday--in New York City at Union Square. The permit is denied and the Jews are successful in their media publicity “quarantine” of Rockwell.
February 25, 1962 - Rockwell speaks in Chicago before twelve thousand Black Muslims at their Savior’s Day convention. [18]
March 1962 - Rockwell travels to Los Angeles, California and tries to organize a chapter of the ANP.
March 8, 1962 - Rockwell is punched in the jaw by, Ed Cherry, a Jewish a student at San Diego State College during a speech. [19] [20]
July 1962 - Rockwell travels to England via Ireland and meets with several National Socialist leaders to found the World Union of National Socialists.
August 5, 1962 - The protocol known as the Cotswold Agreements is signed by National Socialist representatives from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria, and Belgium.
August 8, 1962 - Rockwell is arrested in England and taken to Canon Row Prison. The next day he is deported. [21]

1963

February 14, 1963 - Rockwell speaks at the University of Virginia. [22]
February 25, 1963 - Rockwell speaks at the University of Chicago.
July 13, 1963 - Rockwell speaks in Gordonsville, Virginia. The purpose of these rural speeches in Virginia was to rally Whites to counter-protest King’s “March on Washington” later in August.
August 22, 1963 - Rockwell speaks in Charlottesville. Virginia.
August 28, 1963 - Rockwell stages a small counter-march (fewer than ninety) to MLK’s "I have a dream” speech in Washington. [23]

1964

1965

January 18, 1965 - Rockwell personally confronts Martin Luther King during a NAACP voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama. [24] Both Rockwell and King agree to a debate later that evening. Rockwell was barred from the evening meeting after King was assaulted earlier that day by NSRP activist James Robinson.
October 31, 1965 - Former party member Daniel Burros is exposed by The New York Times as being Jewish and commits suicide. As a result of this publicity, Playboy magazine seeks an interview with Rockwell. [25]
December 3, 1965 - American Nazi Party headquarters in Arlington, Virginia is sized by the IRS for failure to pay taxes. [26]
December 7, 1965 - Rockwell speaks before a capacity crowd of 1400 at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

1966

February 10, 1966 - Rockwell is arrested in New York City on an old disorderly conduct warrant and briefly held in the Tombs before he could speak at Columbia University. [27] [28]
April 1966 - Playboy’s interview with Rockwell appears on the newsstands and attracts new members and supporters to the party. Rockwell and interviewer Alex Haley afterward maintained a respectful relationship with each other.
Summer 1966 - The ideological journal National Socialist World is first issued.
June, 1966 - Rockwell is charged with disorderedly conduct in New York and is acquitted with the help of a Jewish lawyer.
June 27, 1966 - Rockwell speaks at Harvard Univesity in Boston. [29]
July 28, 1966 - Rockwell debates Stokely Carmichael on WBBM television in Chicago, Illinois and coins the term "White Power" for the first time.
August 21, 1966 - Rockwell speaks at a 3,000 strong rally at Marquette Park in Chicago. Over the next few weeks Rockwell would hound Martin Luther King’s open housing demonstrations in Chicago. During this period Rockwell would be arrested twice.
September 10, 1966 - Rockwell organizes the White People's March in Chicago suburb of Cicero, Illinois, with hundreds of Whites marching under the swastika.
November 30, 1966 - Rockwell speaks at his alma mater, Brown University. [30]

1967

January 1, 1967 - the National Socialist White People's Party is formed replacing the American Nazi Party.

February 8, 1967 - Rockwell speaks at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. [31]
February 13, 1967 - Rockwell speaks at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. [32]
April 4, 1967 - Rockwell speaks at Michigan State University [33]
May 15, 1967 - A Chicago jury finds Rockwell guilty of disorderly conduct, criminal trespass and obstructing a peace officer relating to the city’s civil rights unrest in the summer of 1966. The next day he is sentenced to 3 months in jail and fined $500. [34]
June 9-11 1967 - A re-organizational party conference is held in Arlington, Virginia.
July 1967 - The party’s newspaper White Power is first issued, eventually replacing The Stormtrooper magazine.
August 25, 1967 - On a Friday, at two minutes before noon, George Lincoln Rockwell is assassinated in a parking lot in Arlington, Virginia.

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