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Weird Little Guys

Death of a Demagogue, Pt. 2

Weird Little Guys

iHeartPodcasts and Cool Zone Media

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In the year leading up to George Lincoln Rockwell's assassination, he was trying to take the American Nazi Party in a new direction. Not everyone within the party was on board with the changes.

Sources:

Schmaltz, William H. (2000). Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's

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.

Griffin, R. S. (2001). The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds. 1st Books Library.

https://time.com/5096937/martin-luther-king-jr-picture-chicago/ 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323670005_An_order_of_crime_the_criminal_law_of_the_Independent_State_of_Croatia_NDH_1941-1945 

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0:07.0

The murder of an 18-year-old girl in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved for years,

0:14.0

until a local housewife, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story.

0:20.9

America, y'all better work the hell up.

0:22.9

Bad things happens to good people in small towns.

0:32.5

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0:39.5

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0:48.3

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0:53.6

There was still a little bit of snow on the ground, an Ellsworth, Maine, as the sun began to set on March 17, 1968.

1:02.1

Claudia and Frank Smith had been informed by a neighbor that a suspicious-looking car with out-of-state plates had been driving back and forth past their house all weekend.

1:12.6

And by Sunday evening, Frank had had enough.

1:16.1

He wanted to get a good look at the driver.

1:19.1

With Claudia at the wheel, the couple began following the mysterious Volkswagen

1:23.6

that had been shadowing them for two days.

1:26.6

Who was chasing who?

1:28.7

Who loaded his gun first?

1:31.3

No one can quite agree.

1:33.7

By the time the dust had settled,

1:36.2

two members of the American Nazi party

1:38.0

had spent the better part of an hour exchanging gunfire.

1:41.8

Somehow, no one was injured.

1:46.5

But both cars were riddled with bullet holes.

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