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.. Pallies inp various parts of the country. a eecwrcereres ere neisee yee petits Fee memcpy ara seetemcenenrre — Jesse Benjamin Stoner Stoner was born April 13, 1924, in Walker County, Georgia. He is lame in bis left foot, the result of a polio ‘condition contracted early in life, and this is believed by. sone to have warped his personality. Ip bis mid-teens, Stoner becane friendly with a German-born neighbor who apparently imbued hin with a fanatical hatred of the Jews and a strong sympathy for Kazi Germany. Eis obsessive animosity tovard the Jews bas convinced him that they should be exterminated by any means necessary, He once remarked that “Hitler was too moderate” in his treatment of the Jews. At the age of 18, Stoner joined the Associated Klans of America ip Tennessee and was soon a Klan organizer. He remained in the Klan intermittently for nearly ten years. In 1946, he founded the Stoner Anti-Jewish Party and six years later joined forces with Edward Fields to establish the Christian Anti-Jewish Party. A number of bombings of synagogues and schools took place throughout the South during 1958, and Stoner was one of the prime suspects. He reportedly did not commit these crimes but only planned them. On graduating from the Atlanta Law School in 1952, Stoner was admitted to the Georgia bar. As a practicing attorney and as the NSRP legal adviser, he has defended Klansmen and other white extremists who have been arrested. Stoner is one of three attorneys who are currently endeavoring to gain a new trial for James Earl Ray, convicted of murdering Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968. Stoner represented Ray in a civil action in the Fall of 1968. In his capacity as an organizer and speaker for the NSRP, Stoner travels extensively delivering white supremacy, antiblack, and anti-Jewish tirades at NSRP meetings and public