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Gerald Lyman Kenneth Smith (1898-1976) —
also known as Gerald L. K. Smith —
of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Eureka Springs, Carroll
County, Ark.
Born in Pardeeville, Columbia
County, Wis., February
27, 1898.
Pastor;
orator; political administrator and organizer for Huey P.
Long, 1934-35; as a white
supremacist, he joined and organized for William
Dudley Pelley's Silver Shirts of America, an organization modeled
directly on Adolf Hitler's Brownshirts; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1942 (Republican primary), 1942; founder
of the America First party; charged
with sedition
in 1944, as part of an alleged Nazi
conspiracy; tried
along with many others, but after seven months, a mistrial was
declared; America First candidate for President
of the United States, 1944; founder of the Christian Nationalist
Crusade; advocated deportation from the U.S. of Jews and
African-Americans.
Disciples
of Christ.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Glendale, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
15, 1976 (age 78 years, 48
days).
Interment at Christ
of the Ozarks Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Ark.
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William Caesar Warfield (1920-2002) —
also known as William Warfield —
Born in West Helena (now part of Helena-West Helena), Phillips
County, Ark., January
22, 1920.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; professional
singer; actor; performed, Republican National Convention, 1952 ;
university
professor.
Baptist.
African
ancestry.
Broke his neck in an accidental fall, and
died a few weeks later, in Northwestern Memorial Hospital,
Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
25, 2002 (age 82 years, 215
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y.
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