Raymond Joseph Healy
Raymond Joseph Healy (born 1914) was an Irish-American street corner orator who spoke against against the Jews and proclaimed himself an "American Hitler".[1] He was a member of the Khaki Shirts of America (Arthur J. Smith) and the Nationalist Socialist Workers' Party. He was arrested twice in Camden, New Jersey on August 1933 and June 1935 for inciting a riot. In July 1935, he was convicted.[2]
Healy published Healy's Irish Weekly and The Storm (1934-1935). Healey also appeared as a witness to the murder of leftist anti-Mussolini agitator Antonio Fierro (22) in July of 1934. Athos Terzani (31), a Manhattan taxi driver and leftist communist agitator, was acquitted of the crime. Terzani was a close friend of Norman Thomas, perennial Socialist presidential candidate, and active in radical circles. The real target on 14 July 1933, so Healy, had been Arthur John Smith, but a Khaki Shirt, Smith's bodyguard Frank Moffer, grabbed the gun, thereby causing the bullet to strike Fierro. Later it was claimed, Terzani had ripped the weapon from Moffer’s hand and then accidentally shot Fierro while struggling with Moffer.
After the German-Soviet Alliance--which proved temporary--Healy turned against his comrades and in September 1940 authored a series of articles for the Daily Times exposing elements of Chicago’s far-right. The first article was titled, "I Did Hitler's Dirty Work in Chicago." [3] In 1941, he moved to Miami, Florida and became publisher of “The Free Press”.[4]
External links
- Raymond J. Healy of Camden, New Jersey
- Raymond Healy Disregards Sentence -- Continues Fascist Activities, 1939
References
- ↑ American Hebrew and Jewish Messenger, 1941, Volume 149, Issue 8, page 9
- ↑ American Bulletin
- ↑ Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International, by Kevin Coogan, page 97, 101
- ↑ American Hebrew and Jewish Messenger, 1941, Volume 149, Issue 8, page 9
