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At 246 p.m. on March 1, 1967, a baby girl was born at a small hospital in Maine.

Her mother had been admitted to the maternity ward under a fake name,

and the man in the waiting room knew he wasn't the father.

The baby seemed healthy,

and when the woman felt confident that her daughter was free from the mysterious affliction

that had claimed the life of her first child,

she revealed the baby's existence to her real father.

For a brief moment that summer, they were a family.

A man who had abandoned an entire family twice over already

now seemed overjoyed to have this baby in his life.

But the summer of 1967 had a series of unhappy endings for George Lincoln Rockwell.

He spent the last week of his own life, mourning the death of his infant daughter.

And after his assassination, his mistress burned all the evidence that their daughter had ever existed,

including the birth certificate signed by her dead lover's closest friend, Frank Smith.

I'm Molly Conger, and this is Weird Little Guys. Early on in this roundabout process of figuring out who Frank Smith was,

I was reading the transcript of his testimony at John Patler's trial.

In those rambling pages, he told the court that he was the closest friend Commander Rockwell had.

That's a pretty bold statement from a guy whose name really only appears in passing and even the most

comprehensive biographies of George Lincoln Rockwell.

But like I said earlier in this series, it was Frank's testimony at that trial that got me

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