Gerald L.K. Smith, head of the nationalist America First Party, was charged with “breach of the peace” today, following a near-riot last night precipitated by a meeting here addressed by Smith and Rev. Arthur W. Terminiello, suspended priest, who charged this week that Zionists were “instruments of Satan.”
The complainant against Smith was Ira Latimer, executive secretary of the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee, who also filed charges against Terminiello and another speaker. An estimated crowd of 5,000 picketed the meeting, which was attended by several hundred people.
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