Five members of George Rockwell’s American Nazi party picketed the downtown office of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith here yesterday, and some were roughed up by enraged spectators. However, watching police made no arrests and the neo-Nazis departed after a few hours of marching before the building. The pickets carried the usual signs about gassing Jews and Jewish Communists.
The picketing was done in connection with a suit for damages against the ADL, filed by Roger Foss, a lieutenant of the Nazi group, who served a 180-day term in Miami Jail on disorderly conduct charges arising out of an earlier picketing of the ADL office by the Nazis last June, Foss, who was released last January, contends in his suit that he was unjustly accused in the June picketing.
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