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mreqerenes: , a ' ’ + noo 7 . eet pels at a rally at the same site on the following afternoon, At a trifies, and four pistols. — Incites Acts of Violence 2 2:8 a ee policy of violence has been consistently and en- phatically espoused by the NSRP, ESRP spokesmen have wade . —pumerous incendiary ataternents at meetings and public rallies aghich have served to fan the flanes of violence, For instance, — _ Jesse Stoner intensified tensions in Bogalusa, Louisiana, by exborting whites to ars theeselves and take to the streets @uring civil rights demonstrations which wracked that city dp July, 1965, Connie Lynch was instruaental ip fomenting a riot which - broke ovt in Baltimore, Maryland, in July, 1966, as the culuination . of a series of rallies organizes by hia, At the second rally, =~": on July 27, Lynch told his audience that he would lead them = -... Anto s “clear-cut race riot,” At the final rally, on July 38, °° Ss attended by nearly 2,000 persons, hundreds of white youths incited by Lynch and other NSRP speakers, roamed through an esst Baltimore black éistrict, overturned garbage cans, yan across lawns, shouted racial epithets, and beat up & black youth, oo. As a consequence of their activities, Lynch and two other NSRP officials were tried and convicted in a Maryland ; estate court on charges of A4nciting to riot and conspiracy to riot and were sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, , Lynch was also a key figure in a shoot-out that erupted in Berea, Kentucky, ©o5 September 1, 1968, following geveral rallies in which Lynch was the principal speaker, we At a rally held on the evening of August 31, abusive, antiblack = 2. reuarks uttered by Lynch over & loudspeaker were heard by blacks living nearby, Although there were no incidents that might, the seeds of violence bad been sown. —— . gpbridied antiblack, hate-type oratory was resused | the conclusion of the rally, a group of eix or eight blacks, all arued, approached whites who were leaving the rally and =. __ were fired upon by the whites, The fire was promptly Jeturned = by the blacks, In the exchange of shots, two individuals were killed: a 30-year-old white NSRP leader and s 37-years old black resident of Berea, Police Jumediately moved in, ==. rrosted 14 persons, and confiscated seven shotguns, three . a a |