Jamie Kelso (June 8, 1948) is an American

white supremacist White supremacy or white supremacism is the belief that white people are superior to those of other Race (human classification), races and thus should dominate them. The belief favors the maintenance and defense of any Power (social and polit ...

and former

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member of the

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. He hosts daily web radio programs, including ''The Jamie Kelso Show'' on the Voice of Reason Broadcast Network, and is a senior moderator of the white supremacist '' Stormfront'' website, where he uses the name Charles A. Lindberg. Kelso became a moderator at ''Stormfront'' in 2002 and was instrumental in its rapid growth, partially by encouraging senior figures in the white supremacist movement to post.

Public life

Kelso first came to national attention when he was featured in a 1960s ''

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'' magazine article on teenagers in the suburbs of

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. He was featured in the chapter entitled "The Idealist" in the 1976 book ''

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'' by

Michael Medved Michael Saul Medved (born October 3, 1948) is an American radio show host, author, political commentator, and film critic. His talk show, ''The Michael Medved Show'', is syndicated from his home station KTTH in Seattle. It is syndicated via G ...

and

David Wallechinsky David Wallechinsky (born David Wallace, February 5, 1948) is an American populist historian and television commentator, the president of the International Society of Olympic Historians (ISOH) and the founder and editor-in-chief of AllGov.com and ...

, both former high-school classmates of Kelso's. When interviewed for the book, Kelso was an ardent member of the

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. Kelso became a moderator at Don Black's online forum ''Stormfront'' in 2002. He was instrumental in helping the forum grow from 5,000 to an estimated 203,000 members. He was also featured in ''Right Turns'', Medved's 2005 autobiography. He has appeared on Irish Radio in

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, on ''

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'', and on

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. He was the chairman of the May 2004 and May 2005

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conferences attended by a number of white nationalists, including

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, chair of the

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; Jean-Michel Girard, Directeur de cabinet des affaires etrangères of the

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of France; and Lady Michele Renouf from the UK. Kelso lived at

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's headquarters in

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, during this time and worked as Duke's assistant. He also organized an April 2004 international revisionist conference in

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attended by attorney Edgar J. Steele, author of ''Defensive Racism''; Paul Fromm, chair of the

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; and

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and her daughters Lamb and Lynx, twin members of the band

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. He is membership coordinator and a director of the white supremacist

American Freedom Party The American Freedom Party (formerly the American Third Position Party or A3P) is a political party in the United States that promotes white nationalism. In November 2009, it filed papers to be on a ballot in California, and was launched in Ja ...

References

External links

New White Supremacist Party has Mass Electoral Ambitions

A Neo-Nazi Field Trip to the Met : White supremacists from across the country gather in New Jersey and New York for barbecue and culture.
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