I want to welcome everyone to book eight in my reading.

The name of this book is Crying Wolf, Hate Crime Hoaxes in America by Laird Wilcox,

25th Anniversary Edition, 1994 to 2019.

Let's give you a little background on Mr. Wilcox, because a lot of people never heard of

him.

Lared Maurice Wilcox, American researcher of political fringe movements, founder of the

Wilcox collection of contemporary political movements, housed in the Kenneth Spencer

Research Library at University of Kansas.

He was raised in a family with, as he described, political intensity.

His relatives' politics ranged from socialist to membership in the far-right John

Birch Society.

His father was a construction accountant.

Family moved frequently.

He attended the University at Kansas. He joined the

students for a democratic society and later dropped out of college. While living in, I think this is

Olayth, Kansas. He worked as a carpenter, investigator, and writer. Basically, he accumulated four

file drawers of literature about radical political movements, some since his teens.

University of Kansas Library bought a portion of them for $1,000.

It's now called the Wilcox Collection of Contemporary Political Movement.

It's kept in Kansas collection of the Kansas collection of Kenneth Spencer Research Library.

So check this out.

So this is, you know, he's talking about hate crime hoaxes.

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