Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.

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Glenn Miller
Born 23 November 1940
United States
Died 3 May 2021
Occupation Truck driver
White political activist
Political party Democrat (1984)
Republican (1986)
Independent (2006–2010)

Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr. (born Frazier Glenn Cross, Jr.; 23 November 1940 – 3 May 2021), is a retired truck driver and Green Beret Army veteran who served two tours in Vietnam. Glenn Miller is the former leader of the White Patriot Party who later agreed to testify against the defendants in the Fort Smith Sedition Trial. On 13 April 2014, Miller was arrested for killing three people at a Jewish community center and a Jewish retirement home in Overland Park, Kansas. All three victims of his random shooting were later identified as non-Jews.

On 31 August 2015, Miller was found guilty in the Overland Park shooting of one count of capital murder, three counts of attempted murder and assault and weapons charges.[1] Eight days later, the same jury which convicted Miller sentenced him to death by lethal injection.[2]

Life

Glenn Miller, White Patriot Party rally, 1985

Miller was born in 1940 in eastern North Carolina. He joined the military in 1959, serving 20 years with two combat tours in the Vietnam War. He is married with five children.

In 1980, Miller founded the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which later became the White Patriot Party (WPP). Leftist Wikipedia alleges that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) surreptitiously accessed the WPP's computer systems, presenting alleged evidence in court alleging that the WPP leadership was planning the assassination of SPLC leader Morris Dees. The court apparently took no action on this alleged murder conspiracy theory, but supposedly only issued an injunction barring the WPP from engaging in paramilitary activity. In a possibly related case, the SPLC brought a civil lawsuit against members of the organization for allegedly terrorizing the Black Bobby Person and others. The court dismissed the plaintiffs' claim for damages. However, the case had other effects, as Miller later violated an agreement part of the case, causing him to be sentenced to prison for contempt of court. Later, in 1987, Miller was sentenced to five years in prison for various crimes such as threats and weapons violations. Miller agreed to testify against members of the Silent Brotherhood and at Fort Smith sedition trial. At the later trial, all the defendants were found not guilty, implying that Miller's testimonial was viewed as unreliable. The White Patriot Party dissolved in association with this. Miller lived for a time under an assumed identity as an FBI informant. In 2015, he was sentenced to death for the 2014 Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting which killed 3 people, all Christians. Miller alleged that he began planning the shootings after he became convinced that he was dying from emphysema.

Racial politics

In the summer of 1974, Miller joined a North Carolina chapter of the National States Rights Party while still in the military.[3] Miller distributed the party’s newspaper The Thunderbolt and ordered books from the NSRP offices in Marietta, Georgia. Three of the books he ordered were Mein Kampf by Adolph Hitler, Which Way Western Man? by William Gayley Simpson, and The Dispossessed Majority by Wilmot Robertson. About two years later Miller joined up with Harold Covington and the National Socialist Party of America.[4] Miller became an enthusiastic "Nazi" and worked for the Party for four years--showing little success in recruiting new members or any significant measure of growth. In December 1980 Miller quite the NSPA and started the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.[5]

Miller founded the White Patriot Party (WPP), which developed from the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The WPP was a paramilitary organization with an ideology strongly influenced by Christian Identity theology. The White Patriot Party became one of the most successful populist racial nationalist groups in the 1980s. The WPP regularly held marches through North Carolina cities involving hundreds of Confederate flag-carrying members. The WPP published tens of thousands of tabloid newspapers per month, distributing them to the public.[6]

During his time as leader of the WPP, Miller unsuccessfully sought both the Democratic Party's 1984 nomination for Governor of North Carolina,[7] and the 1986 Republican Party's nomination for a seat in the United States Senate.[8] He appeared on several television programs including 60 Minutes and The Sally Jessy Raphael Show. He once participated in an interview with Sacha Baron Cohen for his film Bruno. Miller said he knew it was a setup but wanted to air his racist views far and wide.[9]

Arrest and conviction

Terri LaManno, one of the three victims of the shooting incident.
Reat Griffin Lloyd Underwood (Losen), one of the three victims of the shooting incident.
Dr. William Lewis Corporan, one of the three victims of the shooting incident.

After going underground, Miller was arrested on April 30, 1987, on numerous Federal criminal charges in the company of three other men (Tony Wydra, Robert "Jack" Jackson, and Douglas Sheets), who were also taken into Federal custody.[10]

Threatened with a 200 years sentence, in exchange for a five years sentence (and serving only three), Miller agreed to testify against others. He testified regarding a multiple murder case against two other members of the White Patriot Party. They were acquitted, with Miller considered a dubious witness. They were found guilty of unrelated weapons charges. Miller also testified at the Fort Smith Sedition Trial, where the defendants were acquitted, in part because Miller was considered a dubious witness. He also alleged that he had received $200,000 from the Silent Brotherhood in order to finance the White Patriot Party.[11]

Subsequent activities

After his release from prison, Miller wrote an autobiography, A White Man Speaks Out, and privately printed a thousand copies in 1999.[12] By 2002 he had moved to Aurora, Missouri.[13]

After being banned from Stormfront for being a snitch he began posting on the Vanguard News Network forum under the name "Rounder". In the mid-2000s, he got involved again with racialist tabloid newspaper distribution, both as a major distributor of "American Free Press" and spearheading efforts by Vanguard News Network to publish its own tabloids, which he called "The White Patriot Leader".

In 2006, Miller ran as an independent write-in candidate against Congressman Roy Blunt, in the 7th Congressional District of Missouri.[14] As a perennial candidate, he ran in the 2010 Senate election in Missouri, again as an independent write-in candidate.[15] Miller's 2010 radio campaign advertisements were controversial in Missouri,[16] and nationally. People disputed whether Miller was a legitimate candidate or using his purported candidacy as a way to get air time, based on his comments on the website of the Vanguard News Network. He noted that "stations are required to run advertising for candidates" and that he would declare a candidacy and then start running ads. He said, 'Federal elections offer public speaking opportunities we can’t afford to pass up, and come only once every 2 years.'”[17]

The controversy led to Miller's being interviewed on The Alan Colmes Show[18] and by phone on The Howard Stern Show.[19] Despite legal challenges from Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster and the Missouri Broadcasters Association's disputing Miller's status as a bona fide candidate for office, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) determined there exists no lawful recourse for stations that preferred not to air Miller's ads because of their offensive content.[17][20]

Overland Park shootings

White Nationalist reactions to the Overland Park shootings

Don Black owner and proprietor of Stormfront condemned the Overland Park shootings and labeled Miller as a drunkard and a "homicidal whack job". Black had known Miller and was aware of his character flaws since the 1980s but kept his silence for the sake of Movement "unity".[21]

Greg Johnson of Counter-Currents Publishing said this senseless act shows the need for a "New Right".[22]

Works

  • A White Man Speaks Out (self-published autobiography, 1999) text image

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ "White supremacist convicted of Jewish site killings"
  2. ↑ F. Glenn Miller Jr. deserves death for killings outside Jewish facilities, jury says
  3. ↑ A White Man Speaks Out Chapter 1
  4. ↑ A White Man Speaks Out Chapter 1
  5. ↑ A White Man Speaks Out Chapter 2
  6. ↑ Miller autobiography: 'White Man Speaks Out'
  7. ↑ Our Campaigns, "NC Governor - D Primary Race - May 08, 1984," (retrieved on April 9th, 2010)
  8. ↑ Our Campaigns, "NC US Senate - R Primary Race - May 06, 1986," (retrieved on April 9th, 2010).
  9. ↑ Sacha Baron Cohen's Guerilla Tactics
  10. ↑ "Fugitive Racist Leader Is Captured in Missouri", The New York Times, 1 May 1987, retrieved on April 9th, 2010)
  11. ↑ The KC Klansman’s Missing Years as a Federal Informant https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-kc-klansmans-missing-years-as-a-federal-informant
  12. ↑ Frazier Glenn Miller’s Violent Comeback
  13. ↑ "Controversial ‘campaign’ ads air on area stations", The Joplin Globe, 31 Mar 2010, retrieved on April 9th, 2010
  14. ↑ Our Campaigns, "MO - District 07 Race - Nov 07, 2006," (retrieved on April 9th, 2010).
  15. ↑ Our Campaigns, "MO US Senate Race - Nov 02, 2010," (retrieved on April 9th, 2010).
  16. ↑ Dave Helling, "Racist radio ads draw challenge,", The Kansas City Star, 31 Mar 2010, retrieved on April 9th, 2010
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 "Missouri broadcasters seek FCC ruling on Frazier Glenn Miller candidacy", Radio Business Report, 16 Apr 2010, retrieved 19 Apr 2010
  18. ↑ "Glenn Miller, Proud KKK Leader, Runs For Senate From Missouri", Alan Colmes Presents Liberaland, 3 April 2010, - retrieved on April 9th, 2010
  19. ↑ Michael Dempster and Jason Kaplan, "Sleeping with Seacrest", The Howard Stern Show, 7 Apr 2010, retrieved 9 Apr 2010
  20. ↑ Dave Helling, "Racist KMBZ radio ad can't be stopped", The Kansas City Star, 29 Mar 2010, retrieved on April 9th, 2010
  21. ↑ White Nationalists Reject Kansas City Suspect Frazier Glenn Miller
  22. ↑ On the Necessity of a New Right
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