The documents concerning the National States Rights Party (NSRP) contains a letter from the Attorney General and two monograms. The Attorney General's letter dated April 22, 1976, indicated that the NSRP did not constitute any danger to other living persons, therefore, the investigation of the group could be terminated. The first monograph of the NSRP is dated May of 1970. The NSRP is described as a kindred spirit of the Klu Klux Klan. The NSRP was formed in July of 1958, in Knoxville, Tennessee, of segregationist and anti-Semitic elements. The NSRP is based on racism and bigotry, with blacks and Jews as its main hate targets. Edward Reed Fields is the Director and the Editor of the Thunderbolt, the NSRP paper. Jesse Benjamin Stoner is the National Chairman of the NSRP. Stoner is one of the Attorneys who tried to gain a new trial for James Earl Ray, convicted murderer of Martin Luther King. The second monograph dated August of 1966, is also in the file. Both Stoner and Fields threatened to shoot any FBI Agent conducting any surveillance of them or following them. Both men targeted J. Edgar Hoover as a person they did not like.
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