# James K. Warner

James K. Warner (born 1939) was an early recruit to George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party (ANP) as part of the core of the party and national secretary. He later became involved with the National States' Rights Party (NSRP). After moving to Los Angeles, he was converted to Christian Identity by Wesley Swift and started the New Christian Crusade Church. Warner succeeded Richard Girndt Butler as leader of the Christian Defense League. He eventually moved both the New Christian Crusade Church and the Christian Defense League to Louisiana. Warner later became the Louisiana Grand Dragon of David Duke's Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

## American Nazi Party

James K. Warner was an early recruit to George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party (ANP) and was one of the men who formed the core of the party. He eventually became the national secretary.
Waner made an unsuccessful attempt to integrate Odinism into the ANP as the religious dimension of the movement, after which he reportedly gave all of his Norse material to Else Christensen. In 1963, Warner was sentenced to 180 days in prison and fined $100 on trespassing charges trying to picket negotiations at the University of Alabama.
Following the August 25, 1967, assassination of George Lincoln Rockwell, Warner attempted a takeover of the American Nazi Party in an attempt to unseat Matthias Koehl from party leadership. This attempt primarily involved members of the California branch of the National Socialist White People's Party (NSWPP).
In 1979, Warner donated portions of his library to the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming.

## National States' Rights Party

Warner left the ANP to become involved with the National States' Rights Party to help edit its publications. He eventually became associate editor of the NSRP's monthly publication, Thunderbolt.
It was in the NSRP where Warner became acquainted with J. B. Stoner, who would later act as counsel when Warner testified before a Senate subcommittee.

## Christian Identity

After moving to Los Angeles in 1966, Warner continued to associate with neo-Nazis. He was later converted to Christian Identity by Wesley Swift. In 1971, Warner founded the New Christian Crusade Church, a Christian Identity church. Warner considered himself the spiritual heir to Wesley Swift.
After the publication of Arthur Koestler's The Thirteenth Tribe, Identity ministers like Warner used it as support that the Jews were not God's chosen people, with no claim to the land in Palestine.
Following the death of Swift, Identity minister Richard Girnt Butler assumed control of Swift's church and moved it to Idaho, leaving control of the Christian Defense League to Warner. Eventually, Warner moved the Christian Defense League and the New Christian Crusade Church to Louisiana.
Warner used the New Christian Crusade Church to speak of ZOG, that with "a hidden hand... secretly controls the flow of events in Mainstream America." Proclaiming that since America was ruled by Jews, Warner claimed that the Jews used this power to perpetuate racial genocide.

## Works

* The Law of Odin
* Aryans and Jews: A Study in Racial Differences
* The White Racial Basis of American Civilization
* Secrets of the Synagogue of Satan
* The Real Hate Mongers