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J.B. Stoner Interview (June 3, 1983)

Interview with white supremacist, segregationist, and convicted bomber of Bethel Baptist Church, J.B. Stoner, about his activities during his time before being seized by authorities. Jesse Benjamin Stoner Jr. (April 13, 1924 – April 23, 2005) was an American lawyer, white supremacist, neo-Nazi, racist, segregationist politician, and domestic terrorist who perpetrated the 1958 bombing of the Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, but was not convicted for the bombing of the church until 1980.[3] He was a founder and the long-time chairman of the National States' Rights Party as well as the publisher of its newsletter, The Thunderbolt. Stoner campaigned for several political offices as a Southern Democrat in order to promote his white supremacist agenda. Early life Stoner's family ran a sight-seeing company on Lookout Mountain, Georgia, as well as in nearby Chattanooga. At age two, he contracted childhood polio, which impaired one of his legs and resulted in a lifelong limp. His father Jesse Benjamin Stoner Sr., died when he was five; his mother Minnie died when he was 17.[4] Career Stoner admired segregationist politician Theodore G. Bilbo. He became active in white supremacist groups and traveled to Washington, D.C. to support Bilbo. Stoner rechartered a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Chattanooga when he was 18 years old.[4] Stoner once said that "being a Jew [should] be a crime punishable by death."[3] He ran the National States' Rights Party, founded by Edward Reed Fields, an associate of Stoner's. Stoner received a law degree from Atlanta Law School in 1952. He served as the attorney for James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr.[5] The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) suspected that Stoner was also involved in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. as well as bombings of several synagogues and black churches during the 1950s and 1960s, such as the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. He lived at 591 Cherokee Street in "Old" Marietta, Georgia.[6]