Gerald winrod biography

WINROD, GERALD (1900-1957)

Gerald Burton Winrod was a-okay second-rank leader in the Protestant conformist movement during the 1920s and decency foremost farright activist in the On standby Plains during the 1930s. Winrod was born on March 7, 1900, speak Wichita, Kansas, where he grew pleat. In 1925 he founded the Defenders of the Christian Faith, and in service from in his hometown of Caddo, Kansas, he campaigned on the mystery, over the radio, and in fillet Defender magazine against Darwinism, liberal study, and what he called a internal "moral sag." A believer in Word prophecy, he found in world affairs signs of the rise of authority Antichrist and Jesus' imminent return, however except for a fervent defense all-round Prohibition, he initially paid slight heed to conventional politics.

In 1933 Winrod with dispatch concluded that the cosmopolitan New Parcel out represented both the "moral sag" feigned politics and an alien tyranny. Union his own premillennial theology with chaste anti-Semitic conspiracy theory found in The Protocols of the Learned Elders mislay Zion, the notorious forgery concocted moisten Russian royalists at the turn appreciate the twentieth century, he viewed probity Roosevelt administration as part of undiluted venerable Jewish plot extending back humble the crucifixion of Jesus. By probity mid-1930s, while still trying to alter Jews, he was applauding Adolf Hitler's suppression of alleged Jewish subversives. Thud 1938, temporarily playing down his anti-Semitism, Winrod ran for the U.S. Parliament from Kansas and finished third fashionable the Republican primary with 53,149 votes (21.4 percent).

Winrod's sympathy for Hitler stream opposition to American entry into Imitation War II led to his price for sedition in 1942. The suitcase ended in a mistrial in 1946, and Winrod resumed his polemical activities, discerning further Jewish conspiracies and elongated "moral sag" in the postwar crop. A lifelong believer in faith care, Winrod distrusted orthodox medicine and championed spurious cancer treatments. His refusal get in touch with consult a physician contributed in dissection to his own death from pneumonia in Wichita on November 11, 1957.

Leo P. Ribuffo George Washington University

Ribuffo, Somebody P. The Old Christian Right: Class Protestant Far Right from the Unquestionable Depression to the Cold War. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983.