Related
Translate
Get RNB via RSS
 |
RNB's RSS feed What is this? |
Get RNB via Email
 |
 Subscribe by Email What is this? |
Follow: Twitter
Most Popular
This Week:
- Guyana’s Jonestown suicide site gets plaque
- Gaddafi preaches Islam to Rome beauties
- Scientology practices ‘putting people at risk’
- Recession: Muslim schools in UK under threat of closure
- Australian senator tells Parliament of widespread criminal conduct within the Church of Scientology
- When a child dies, faith is no defense
- Muslim terrorists smuggle fatwas promoting Jihad out of secure UK prisons
- Techie Holy water and geeky bishops
- Israel Charges Extremist With Attempted Murder Of Messianic Family
- 1-year prison term for man who participated in cyber attack on Church of Scientology Web sites
White supremacist who murdered talk show host dies in prison
More articles on this topic: Hate GroupsIf it were not for David Lane, KOA’s outrageous talk show host Alan Berg might have lived to a ripe old age.
But the white supremacist, who died in an Indiana prison Monday, was the connection between the acerbic Berg and the neo-Nazi gang that gunned him down in his Congress Park driveway, 23 years ago next month.
It is among Denver’s most notorious crimes.
Lane, 68, who had been serving sentences totaling 190 years in the U.S. prison at Terre Haute, died of natural causes related to epilepsy, authorities said.
He was a founding member in fall 1983 of a white supremacist gang that the media called The Order, but which they themselves named Bruders -Schweigen – the Silent Brotherhood.
When the gang assembled a hit list, Berg’s name landed on top because Lane had a tape of one of his KOA talk shows in which Berg ripped into a hero of the racist movement.
Berg had lambasted white supremacists and had called Lane “sick” and “pathetic” in on-air conversations.
The Order responded with a machine gun and 13 bullets to Berg’s head, chest and neck on June 18, 1984.
Lane was a prolific writer on white supremacy. He had continued his writings from prison on anti-Semitism, Wotanism and anti-Americanism, according to various Web sources.
Twenty members of The Order were convicted in 1985 on conspiracy and racketeering charges, and Lane appeared in court again in 1987 in connection with Berg’s death.
Lane died in the medium-security Federal Correctional Institution, according to a prison news release.
“He was a known epileptic and wasn’t taking his medication,” said Dr. Roland Kohr, Vigo County coroner, who performed an autopsy. Lane had not refilled a prescription since January, Kohr said.
Death occurred when Lane stopped breathing after a seizure, Kohr said.
The Terre Haute Tribune-Star contributed to this report.
What You Can Do From Here
|
Read More Articles On These Topics
 Share, Blog About, Bookmark, or Email This Article
Subscribe
Read Another Article
 Previous entry: Canadian hospital refuses kidney donation from religious cult member Next entry: American attempt to patent yoga puts Indians in a twist
RNB Homepage with latest headlinesFind Related Information
Find Related Books
|
Share This Article
To share this page simply copy and paste one of these URL's:
