One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 1
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
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Summary
Years before he set off on his three year killing spree, Joseph Paul Franklin left his home in Alabama to attend a nazi conference in Virginia.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
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| 0:11.2 | It was already dark when the marcher set off on November 13, 1969. |
| 0:17.8 | Thousands of people had gathered just outside the gates of Arlington National Cemetery outside of Washington, D.C. |
| 0:25.0 | Each marcher carried a candle and a small placard. |
| 0:29.7 | At the head of the march, Judy Draws cupped her hands around the flame to shield it from the freezing wind. |
| 0:36.0 | The sign she carried said only, |
| 0:38.9 | Donald Glenn Draws, Missouri. |
| 0:42.6 | At 23 years old, |
| 0:44.9 | she'd been a mother for 10 months |
| 0:46.4 | and a widow for seven. |
| 0:49.8 | For the next 39 hours, |
| 0:52.7 | nearly 50,000 people walked from Arlington National Cemetery to the White House. |
| 0:59.0 | Each marcher carried with them the name of a United States service member killed in the war in Vietnam. |
| 1:06.0 | They didn't chant or sing. |
| 1:09.0 | The only sound came from the six drummers, slowly tapping out a funeral cadence. |
| 1:17.4 | Inside the White House, Richard Nixon fumed. |
| 1:22.5 | As peace activists marched overnight in the freezing rain, |
| 1:26.6 | he joked about sending a low-flying helicopter |
| 1:28.7 | to blow out their candles. By Saturday morning, half a million people were in Washington, D.C., |
| 1:38.2 | demanding an end to the war. It's easy to say now that they were right. |
| 1:45.0 | But in 1969, the widows and clergy and students who opposed the war were beaten and tear-gast. |
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