Louis Farrakhan , the Nation's vitriolic leader, gave an anti-Semitic speech that Metzger attended. That same year, Metzger and 200 white supremacists convened in Michigan to pledge their support for the Nation of Islam. It was 1988, however, that was a pivotal year for Metzger. He and his son John that year organized the first-ever hate rock festival, Aryan Fest. Racist skinheads of all stripes traveled to Oklahoma for the event. The father and son also appeared on an infamous episode of "The Geraldo Rivera Show" that ended in a televised melee, with Rivera's nose broken by a thrown chair. But, most importantly, 1988 was the year that a Metzger protg, Dave Mazella, went to Portland, Ore., to organize a skinhead group called East Side White Pride (ESWP). Mazella was vice president of the Aryan Youth Movement, WAR's youth unit. Mazzella carried an introductory letter from Metzger and arranged for ESWP members to speak him by phone. Three weeks after Mazella's arrival in Portland, ESWP skinhead Ken Mieske and two others beat to death an Ethiopian graduate student named Mulugeta Seraw in a street confrontation. The killers, Metzger said later, had done their "civic duty." After Mieske and two other ESWP skins pleaded guilty to murder, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League sued the Metzgers and WAR on behalf of the victim's family. Using the doctrine of vicarious liability, plaintiffs' attorneys argued that the Metzgers should be found liable for intentionally inciting the skinheads to engage in