For more than 60 years covering three generations, Gerald, Gordon and David Winrod have produced some of the most vicious and hate filled anti-Semitic propaganda to be found on the American scene.

Gordon Winrod, now in his late 60s, who has declared that "Not Jew-wise, the American citizenry always gets Jewed," is the current patriarch of the Winrod clan. His father was the late Rev. Gerald B. Winrod of Wichita, Kansas, a propagandist so notorious for his pro-Nazism and anti-Semitism in the 1930s and 1940s that he earned himself the sobriquet of the "Jayhawk Nazi," ("Jayhawk" is a nickname for a Kansas native.) Gordon’s son, David Winrod, now in his mid-40s, has taken up the cudgels to spread his and his father’s hatred of Jews.

Since 1964, Gordon Winrod has been the pastor and prime mover of Our Savior’s Church & Latin School in Gainesville, Missouri, an entity of his own creation, where he has conducted a "radio ministry" and published The Winrod Letter and other anti-Jewish tracts. Both Gordon and David Winrod have engaged in widespread mailings of their respective anti-Semitic publications to all postal residents of several small communities.

Gordon Winrod is a former Lutheran minister. After graduating from Concordia Seminary in Illinois, he served in several Lutheran churches in Texas and Arkansas. Winrod’s hate-mongering activities became apparent with the first issue of his anti-Semitic monthly, The Winrod Letter, in the summer of 1960. Winrod was then ousted from his Arkansas position and suspended from ministerial functions by the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church. Subsequently, Winrod was named National Chaplain of the racist and anti-Semitic National States Rights Party (NSRP), led by J. B. Stoner. Although in this position only for six months, Winrod preached his anti-Jewish gospel coast-to-coast during an extensive speaking tour made under the auspices of the Georgia-based NSRP.

After leaving the NSRP in 1962, Winrod began devoting his full time to tirades against Jews through his radio broadcasts and publications. Winrod attacked Jews as the cause of America’s social and economic problems. Though "The Winrod Hour" was banned by several radio stations, Winrod managed to maintain his program on some stations by using code words, such as "anti-Christs" "and "Pharisees" for Jews and Judaism. Through his publications, however, Winrod made his attitude towards Jews perfectly clear. Blaming Jews for a conglomeration of world problems, he has written; "Jews are murderers and children of the devil" [and] "Jews control all politics by the power of money."

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