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David Duke

Former representative in the Louisiana House, and candidate for U.S.
Senate, in addition to being a former Grand Wizard for the Ku Klux Klan.
More recently he has been bilking his contributors to pay his gambling
debts, pleading guilty to mail fraud and tax evasion in December 2002.
Duke can no longer hold public office.

Timeline

13 Jul 1950

David Duke born, Tulsa OK.

1967

Joins the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
at the age of 17.

1970

Founds the White Youth Alliance while a
student at Louisiana State University. From a 1997 Interview with
Duke by Stormfront: "I did picket one time, wore a swastika
once in my life. I picketed William Kunstler at Tulane University
and that's the only instance in my life that I ever did
that."

1971

Duke visits his father, an engineer who
worked in the State Department, in Laos, for a number of months. He
spends some of this time teaching English to Laotian officers.
Starting from 1989 onward, Duke refashions this time as actual
military missions behind enemy lines in speeches and fundraising
materials.

1974

Duke graduates from Louisiana State
University with a BA in History. He had taken time off from his
college career for various activist work involving
Neo-Nazis.

1974

Duke becomes National Director of the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

23 Apr 1975

The Witchita Sun quotes David
Duke as saying: "White people don't need a law against rape, but if
you fill this room up with your normal black bucks, you would,
because niggers are basically primitive animals." Later, Duke
refutes this in a 1997 interview, although only sort of: "Whoever
gave you that quote is totally inaccurate... No one is going to find
any tape of me using the word nigger or talking in those kinds of
terms. Now I certainly will talk frankly and openly about the fact
that there is a problem of black rape of white women in this
country. The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in
America by a black man for every one black woman raped by
whites."

Nov 1978

David Duke publishes the Klan Code of
Conduct: "Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race
and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include
freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish
interests."

17 Nov 1978

The Heritage Florida Jewish News
quotes David Duke as proclaiming at a Clearwater Klan rally: "Jewish
people have put the interests of race over the interests of the
American people... Jews are filled with more hatred and rage for our
race, for our heritage, for our blood than perhaps you can
imagine."

1980

David Duke establishes the National
Association for the Advancement of White People (NAAWP), which he
describes as a "white rights lobby organization".

Apr 1982

In an editorial in the NAAWP
newsletter, David Duke asks: "Am I an alarmist? Is my vision unreal?
All one has to do is look around this globe and see the Third World
reality. Are whites holding every one of the nonwhite countries
down, or are we in fact pumping billions of dollars into them along
with every technological aid that the West can produce? And now the
West itself is gradually being enveloped by nonwhite immigration.
The exploding numbers of nonwhites are slowly wrapping formerly
white nations in a dark human cocoon. Shall a butterfly emerge, or
the beast that has haunted the ruins of every great white
civilization that submitted to invasion by immigration and racial
miscegenation?"

Mar 1985

In an interview, David Duke declares:
"What we really want to do is to be left alone. We don't want
Negroes around. We don't need Negroes around. We're not asking --
you know, we don't want to have them, you know, for our culture. We
simply want our own country and our own society. That's in no way
exploitive at all. We want our own society, our own
nation."

Nov 1989

David Duke elected to Louisana State
Legislature.

13 May 1990

In an interview published in the San
Francisco Chronicle, David Duke declares: "The Jews are trying
to destroy all other cultures -- as a survival mechanism -- the only
Nazi country in the world is Israel."

19 Dec 1991

After losing the Louisiana
gubernatorial election, David Duke exults: "I won my constituency. I
won 55% of the white vote."

Nov 1998

My Awakening: A Path to Racial
Understanding is published by Duke and sold through his website.
736 pages, $25.00.

1 Nov 1999

In filing his 1998 tax return form,
David Duke claims he made $18,831.00 when in fact he actually made
$65,034.00. Naughty, Naughty. He is convinced of tax evasion in
2002.

Nov 2000

Duke's home is raided by the FBI while
he is in Moscow promoting the Russian version of his book. Duke
begins staying in the Ukraine as a guest for the next two years,
travelling throughout Europe and Russia and giving lectures and book
tours.

18 Dec 2002

Duke pleads guilty to tax evasion and
fraud and is sentenced to 15 months in jail and a $10,000
fine.

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