Louis Beam

Louis Beam

Born: August 20, 1946
in Lufkin, Texas, USA
Louis Ray Beam, Jr. is an American white supremacist, conspiracy theorist, and neo-fascist. After high school, he joined the United States Army and served as a helicopter door-gunner in Vietnam. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Once he returned to the United States, he became a Klansman, leading a maritime Louisiana KKK element and a Klan rally in Texas against government help to Vietnamese immigrant fishermen. He was also the leader of the Texas Emergency Reserve, a militia that was disbanded by the courts in 1982 as a result of a lawsuit filed under Texas anti-militia law by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

Movies for Louis Beam...

An American Bombing: The Road to April 19th
Title: An American Bombing: The Road to April 19th
Character: Self – KKK Leader (archive footage)
Released: April 16, 2024
Type: Movie
This documentary looks at the surge in political violence through the story of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, showing the roots of anti-government sentiment and its reverberations today, along with the emotionally charged warnings of those who suffered tragic losses in the deadliest homegrown attack in U.S. history.