William Pierce, a white supremacist leader who founded the far-right National Alliance, died of cancer Tuesday at 68. Pierce “was by far the most dangerous and effective American extremist and racist in recent memory,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
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