my university once, in the spirit of hearing all sides, had George Lincoln Rockwell (head of the American Nazi Party) as a speaker...I sat in the 3rd row, my jaw dropping in wonder....NOT at the spew coming from his mouth, which was much as I had expected, but at the APPLAUSE from much of the crowd!....remember, this was Wichita, Kans., at the time home to 3 board members of the John Birch Society.

I left that program shaken that there was that much support for the bigoted, racist message of hate in the same classes I was attending....