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Incites Acts of Violence _ & policy of violence has been consistently and es- phatically espoused by the NSRP, NSRP spokesnen have aade “pumerous incendiary statenents at meetings and public rallies S-gpich have served to fan the flanes of violence, For instance, Jesse Stoner intensified tensions ip Bogalusa, Louisiana, by exborting whites to arm therselves and take to the streets during civil rights Gewonstrations which wracked that city _4n July, 1965. Connie Lynch was instrusental in fomenting a riot which broke ovt in Baltimore, Maryland, in July, 1966, as the culuination of a series of rallies organized by him, At the second rally, 97” on July 27, Lynch told his audience that he would lead them s into a “clear-cut race riot,” At the final rally, on July 28, attended by nearly 2,000 persons, hundreds of white youths incited by Lynch and other NSRP speakers, roaned through an east Baltimore black district, overturned garbage cans, ran across lawns, shouted racial epithets, and beat up & black youth, As a consequence of their activities, Lynch and two otber NSRP officials were tried and convicted in a Maryland etate court on charges of inciting to riot and conspiracy to riot and were sentenced to two years’ duprisonnent, eet hoe Lynch was also a key figure in a shoot-out that erupted in Berea, Kentucky, oD September 1, 1968, following geveral rallies in which Lynch was the principal speaker. - At a rally held on the evening of August 31, abusive, antiblack =. reuarks uttered by Lynch over & loudspeaker were heard by on blacks living nearby, Although there were no incidents that night, the seeds of violence bad been sown. ~ 3 7 . ~ Unbridled antiblack, hate-type oratory was resuned at a rally at the sane site on the following afternoon, At © the conclusion of the rally, a group of ix or eight blacks, ~~ all arued, approached whites who were leaving the rally and _were fired upon by the whites, The fire was promptly returned by the blacks, In the exchange of shots, two individuals awere killed: a 30-year-old white NSRP leader and a 37-year- ~ old black resident of Berea. Police immediately moved in, * arrested 14 persons, and confiscated seven shotguns, three ~ ‘yifles, and four pistols.