Alan Berg
Unresolved
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🗓️ 1 November 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Alan Harrison Berg was a 50-year-old radio host from Chicago, who had gained prominence in the Denver area for his outspoken, abrasive behavior. A Jewish man, Alan was proud of his heritage but was very vocal about his atheistic, liberal beliefs - and that upset a great many people.
Among the people that were offended by the things Alan said on his program were members of a white supremacist group that called themselves The Order. Based out of the Pacific Northwest, The Order would set their sights on Alan, believing that his death might spark their long-awaited race war...
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| 0:00.0 | It is a work of fiction, but it foreshadows an ugly fact, the bombing of the federal building |
| 0:11.5 | in Oklahoma City. |
| 0:13.5 | The book is called The Turner Diaries. |
| 0:16.0 | In it, the FBI building in Washington is blown up by white supremacists. |
| 0:21.4 | It may have been a blueprint for what happened in Oklahoma City. |
| 0:25.0 | It was written by a man who propagates his message through mail order and radio broadcasts, |
| 0:30.6 | and now mainstream bookstores. |
| 0:33.3 | He is part of an increasingly sophisticated network, feeding on anti-government feelings. |
| 0:40.1 | Published in 1978, the book The Turner Diaries would end up becoming one of the most important |
| 0:46.7 | pieces of literature in American history, despite a small fraction of Americans having |
| 0:52.2 | ever read it, or even being aware of its existence. |
| 0:55.9 | The book has a long-lasting legacy that continues to loom large over our day-to-day lives. |
| 1:01.7 | Written by William Luther Pierce, a white supremacist, neo-Nazi, and anti-Semite who only |
| 1:07.7 | agreed to publish this fictional book under a pseudonym. |
| 1:10.9 | The Turner Diaries tells a bleak story that prays upon the fears of white nationalist. |
| 1:16.3 | Taking place a century in the future, the story is set in a dystopian world where white |
| 1:21.7 | people are subjugated by other races, forced to live in bondage and drowning in prejudice. |
| 1:28.3 | Before eventually rising as a collective force and declaring war on the non-white segments |
| 1:33.4 | of the US population, in an event that the book labels The Day of the Rope. |
| 1:38.5 | This group of white Americans ultimately declares victory after driving all non-whites out |
| 1:43.5 | of America through a sustained campaign of violence, which ranges from shooting opinionated |
| 1:49.2 | talk show host in the streets to, as you heard in the introduction, bombing federal buildings |
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