A 2008 National Socialist Party rally in D.C.
The opening of Jesse McKinley’s well-written New York Times account of the strange murder of Riverside, California, resident Jeff Hall, a representative of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Party, who was recently shot to death by his tow-headed ten-year-old son:
“The day before he allegedly shot his father, the sandy-haired 10-year-old boy showed off a prized possession to a visitor. It was a thin leather belt emblazoned with a silver insignia of the Nazi SS.
‘Look what my dad got me,’ the boy said shyly, perched on the living room stairs, one of the few quiet spots in a house with five children.
A little more than 12 hours later, the police say, the boy stood near those stairs with a handgun and killed his father, Jeff Hall, as he lay on the living room couch. It was about 4 a.m. on May 1; paramedics declared Mr. Hall dead when they arrived.
The police say that the killing was intentional, but that the motives behind it are still not fully understood. But whatever the reason, it has cast fresh light on the fringe group to which Mr. Hall devoted his life: the National Socialist Movement, the nation’s largest neo-Nazi party, whose message stands in surreal juxtaposition to the suburban, workaday trappings of many of its members.”
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Hall can be seen at this creepy 2009 anti-immigration rally. He’s the speaker with the shaved head who’s on camera early in the clip: