Aclu Files Appeal Against Army’s Decision to Ban Nazi-style Services for Rockwell

The American Civil Liberties Union filed an appeal in the fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday contending that the Army’s refusal to permit a Nazi-organized burial service of the ashes of George Lincoln Rockwell, slain by a fellow Nazi in an Arlington, Va. parking lot in 1967, was unconstitutional. Rockwell’s cremation remains are still in the hands of the American Nazi Party. The Army had ruled that the proposed funeral in a national cemetery in Culpepper, Va., was improper because symbols of the Nazi movement, or any other political affiliation, are not permitted in the cemetery. The Army’s contention was upheld by the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va.