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Title on Reel (transcribed from original)
Police ID
Date Created
1966-03-26
Reel Format
16mm
Reel Description
This reel contains footage of an American Nazi Party rally in Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C. There is footage of speakers, including John Patler, and panning shots of the crowd. This appears to be a group of majority white participants.
Timestamp Description
00:00:13 Footage begins. Footage of a stage set up on top of a camper in a park. A banner on the camper has a Nazi swastika and reads "Stand Up For Our Boys in Viet Nam". A podium on top of the camper is draped with the flag of Nazi Germany, officially called the Reich and National Flag. Filmed from a distance, an individual is speaking at the podium. The footage is blurry and overexposed.
00:00:17 Footage of two individuals standing in the park, with cars and a building in the background. A small child runs through the frame.
00:00:19 Zoomed in footage of an individual who appears to be John Patler speaking at the podium, with a building partially visible in the background. Patler wears a khaki Nazi uniform with a swastika armband on his left arm, and black gloves.
00:00:20 Footage of Patler stepping away from the podium, filmed from a different angle. The United States Capitol building is visible in the background.
00:00:25 An unidentified individual wearing a suit and a Nazi swastika armband speaks at the podium, with Patler standing to their right.
00:00:29 Another angle of the same speaker. The footage pans down to film the camper the podium is on, then right to film the crowd including several uniformed officers. This clip ends with footage of the Washington Monument.
00:01:08 Zoomed in footage of two individuals on a motorcycle.
00:01:13 Multiple clips of the crowd at the rally. The footage is blurry, the camera shakes, and much of it is overexposed. It is difficult to distinguish individual faces.
00:01:40 Footage of two individuals at the podium, at the microphone appears to be the same individual in a suit from earlier, to their left is another individual in a khaki Nazi uniform with a cap and swastika armband on their left arm.
00:01:47 Footage of two individuals being led away by uniformed officers.
00:01:59 Multiple clips of blurry and shaky footage panning the crowd.
00:02:09 Footage of an individual setting up a film camera on a tripod. The camera pans right and up to the same individual in a suit speaking at the podium, with Patler to their right and the unidentified individual wearing a cap to their left.
00:02:17 Multiple clips of the crowd at the rally. The footage is blurry, the camera shakes, and much of it is overexposed. It is difficult to distinguish individual faces.
00:02:58 Overexposed footage filmed from a distance of two individuals at the podium.
00:02:59 Zoomed in footage of an individual speaking at the podium. They have a shaved head and tattoos, and wear a denim vest with no shirt underneath. Patler is visible walking behind them.
00:03:10 Panning overexposed footage of the crowd filmed from within the crowd.
00:03:18 Multiple clips of footage of Patler and another individual at the podium, the second individual wears a Ku Klux Klan white robe and hood.
00:03:22 Footage of Patler and three other individuals at the podium adjusting the microphone. A container labeled "Gas" is visible on the stage. The camera pans down to show two individuals standing next to the the camper, then back up to the podium.
00:03:51 Zoomed in footage of the U.S. Capitol building. The camera pans back to the platform.
00:04:00 Footage ends.
Event Description
On March 26, 1966, thousands of individuals in cities across the United States of American protested the country's war in Vietnam in events referred to as the International Days of Protest. In Washington, "rival groups" demonstrated near the White House, including the American Nazi Party. (Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 27, 1966). George L. Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi party, spoke at the rally as well, though he is not featured in this footage. The individual convicted of killing Rockwell on August 25, 1967, John Patler, is visible throughout this reel.
Runtime
00:04:14
Corporate Name Subject
American Nazi Party
Topical Subject
Neo-Nazis; Neo-Nazism; Protest movements; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements; Demonstrations; Crowds; White supremacy movements; White nationalism; Police; Police patrol--Surveillance operations; Electronic surveillance; Video surveillance
City/Location
Washington (D.C.)
Genre
color films (visual works)
Local Genre
moving image
Type
Moving Image
Digital Format
video/mp4
Language
eng
Rights Statement URL
Rights
This material is in the public domain in the United States and thus is free of any copyright restriction. Acknowledgement of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.
Collection
Richmond Police Department Surveillance Collection
Source
American Nazi Party Counter-Protest to Anti-Vietnam War Protest in Washington D.C. Film Reel, 1966 March 26
File Name
VCU_M571_032.mp4