Assassination of George Lincoln Rockwell

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On August 25, 1967, George Lincoln Rockwell, an American neo-Nazi political activist and the leader of the National Socialist White People's Party (NSWPP), formerly the American Nazi Party (ANP), was assassinated by John Patler, an expelled member of the NSWPP. Patler fired two shots at Rockwell from the roof of a nearby building, while Rockwell was visiting a local laundromat close to the party's headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. The second shot struck Rockwell in the chest; Rockwell died there at 12:02 p.m. Patler was arrested 45 minutes later, about a mile and a half away. Rockwell was the founder of the ANP; he was one of the earliest Holocaust deniers, called for forcibly sending all Black people to Africa, and for the murder of Jews. Despite attention and widespread notoriety, neither Rockwell nor his party achieved political power and his following was largely insignificant. Rockwell had a complicated relationship with Patler, who left and rejoined the party several times. Patler...

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