The American Nazi Party renamed itself months before an ex-member assassinated its founder
Evidence
The NSWPP was the American Nazi Party by another name, retitled by its founder George Lincoln Rockwell several months before he was assassinated by an ex-member in August 1967. This two-story office building on North Franklin Road had replaced the large rambling house in another part of Arlington that had been the center of American Nazism in Rockwell’s day. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3048
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- CANDY: The detail that the American Nazi Party’s rename-and-then-assassination pattern is a memorable elevator fact.