A temporary injunction stopping stock sales by West Hooker, self-described “anti-Jewish” promoter of “a Christian television network,” on the grounds that he had attempted to raise millions of dollars by “fraudulent practices” was obtained here by Attorney General Jacob K. Javits.
Hooker, who is president of Film Network, Inc. and Master Television Corp., is also editor of the “Nationalist Party Bulletin.” He told newsmen, after he was served with the court papers, that “I am not anti-Semitic, a racial term, but I am anti-Jewish, a creed term, to the extent that Judaism is anti-Christian.” Continuing to protest that he had never done anything wrong that he knew of, Hooker explained, “I’m a Christian and I want to get a little Christian influence into television.”
Hooker used many persons as “salesmen” for his stock, including Bryant W. Bowles, head of the National Association for the Advancement of White People, and Merwin K. Hart, head of the National Economic Council, Inc. Hart was a “secret” shareholder by his own request, Hooker said, because Hart felt “he would hold us back because he was known supposedly as an anti-Semite.”
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