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I wanted to take a second to talk about a different Rockwell.

We've been talking in circles for weeks now about George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party. But there

are some other famous Rockwells. His own father, George Lovejoy Rockwell, was a pretty famous

vaudeville performer.

But it isn't Doc Rockwell I want to talk about.

There is another Rockwell who, like the Nazi we've been talking about,

is most famously pictured with a pipe in his mouth.

Another Rockwell who lived in a city called Arlington in his 40s. Another Rockwell who came out swinging in the 1960s

with some strong public statements about the civil rights movement.

But George Lincoln Rockwell, the Nazi,

and Norman Rockwell, the illustrator,

don't really have much else in common.

So there's never really a good reason to talk about

both men in the same breath, unless it's by accident. As I was researching the story of

Frank Smith and his involvement in both the American Nazi Party and the New England Mafia,

I was reading through the file the FBI kept on Raymond Patriarcha, a mob boss in Rhode Island.

About 4,000 pages into that 8,000-page file, there is a memo addressed to J. Edgar Hoover.

It's from the special agent in charge of the Boston Field Office, and it's dated January of 1965.

The memo was to notify Hoover that a patriarch a crime family associate, who'd just been released from prison, was meeting with a man called George Norman Rockwell.

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