Ku Klux Kable Access TV

Weird Little Guys

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Society & Culture, True Crime

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

For over a decade, neo-Nazis and Klansmen were hand-delivering VHS tapes of a California-based public access TV show to local television stations in cities across the country. The stations had no choice but to run the show on local public access channels. The show's host, Tom Metzger, received a gift of $300,000 in 1984 that gave him the financial freedom to pursue his dream of delivering his racist message to as many Americans as possible, right through their television screens.

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0:05.3	In Marion, Illinois, an 11-year-old girl brutally stabbed to death, her father's longtime live-in
0:10.7	girlfriend maintaining innocence, but charged with her murder.
0:14.5	I am confident that Julie Beckley is guilty.
0:17.6	They've never found a weapon.
0:19.3	Never made sense.
0:20.3	Still doesn't make sense.
0:21.4	She found out she was pregnant in jail.
0:23.7	The person who did it is still out there.
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0:58.2	With guest appearances from behind the bastards Robert Evans,
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