Jamie Kelso

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Jamie Kelso (June 8, 1948) is a senior moderator of the American White Nationalist website Stormfront. He hosts a nightly webradio program seven days a week on Stormfront Radio.

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[edit] Early life and background

Kelso was born in New York City to parents from Nebraska and Missouri of Scottish and German ancestry. He is an Eagle Scout and member of MENSA. He ran for Congress as an Independent in the 5th Congressional District of Missouri in 1976. Kelso is divorced with no children. He is a former member of the John Birch Society. He is an artist and musician, working in painting, etching, and engraving, and has sung tenor leads in opera, musicals, and lieder.

[edit] Public life

Kelso first came to national attention when he was featured in a 1960s Time Magazine article on teenagers in the suburbs of Los Angeles.[1]

He was featured in the chapter entitled The Idealist in the 1976 book What Really Happened to the Class of '65? by Michael Medved and David Wallechinsky, both former high school classmates of Kelso's. [2]

He was also featured in Right Turns, Michael Medved's 2005 autobiography. He has appeared on Irish Radio in Dublin, Ireland and on Fox TV in South Carolina.

He was the chairman of the May 2004 and May 2005 New Orleans conferences attended by a number of white nationalists, including Nick Griffin, chair of the British National Party; Jean-Michel Girard, Directeur de cabinet des affaires etrangeres of the Front National of France; and Lady Michele Renouf from the UK. Kelso lived at David Duke's headquarters in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana during this time. He also organized an April 2004 international revisionist conference in Sacramento attended by attorney Edgar J. Steele, author of Defensive Racism; Paul Fromm, chair of the Canadian Association for Free Expression; and April Gaede and her daughters Lamb and Lynx, twin members of the band Prussian Blue.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Electronic Storm: Stormfront grows a thriving neo-nazi community" by T.K. Kim for the Southern Poverty Law Center.
  2. ^ What Really Happened to the Class of '65? by Michael Medved and David Wallechinsky, Random House Inc; 1st ed edition (September 1976).