Ned Touchstone - Opposing King, Integration, and Globalism

Opposing King, Integration, and Globalism

Touchstone decried the civil rights activism of Martin Luther King, Jr., whom he claimed (and later proved with federal documentation and photos) had political and financial ties with international communism. Touchstone said that many Americans could not understand that "King gets his money from known Reds until they are hit over the head with the facts. We stand ready to hit them over the head with solid facts." FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, however, claimed that while the communists had attempted to infiltrate the civil rights movement they had failed in that mission.

Touchstone opposed the Fair Play for Cuba movement, a communist front in which Lee Harvey Oswald had been active prior to 1963. The "Fair Play" group sent busloads of northern blacks into the South to work for desegregation. Touchstone and another Radical Right ally, George Singlemann of New Orleans, instead organized the "Reverse Freedom Ride movement," which raised funds to provide bus trips for southern blacks wishing to relocate to the North. Disgruntled southern minorities were encouraged to relocate to Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, the home of the compound of President Kennedy, or to other cities where northern leaders who supported civil rights legislation lived. Touchstone claimed that his "Reverse Freedom Ride" neutralized the "Fair Play for Cuba" activists.

Later, after the Kennedy assassination, Touchstone traveled and devoted himself to compiling the most detailed, fact-proven essay on the conspiracy that planned and hid the truth of Kennedy's murder in Dallas. Touchstone questioned the Warren Commission's report, which claims President Kennedy died from a single bullet fired by a lone gunman. For years, Touchstone investigated Kennedy's assassination. He supported the conspiracy viewpoint formulated by Orleans Parish District Attorney Jim Garrison. There have since been many books, documentaries and even a popular Hollywood film, JFK, depicting the facts that Touchstone wrote about in The Councilor. The notes and photos he compiled were so undeniable and clear that they were used for the basis of this movie regarding Lee Harvey Oswald and his connection to the U.S. Federal government of the coverup and real reasons for that assassination, including the sacrifice of "fall guy" Lee Harvey Oswald.

Touchstone was an early critic of growing American globalism. He singled out "dangerous" groups such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Federal Reserve System, the Bank of France, the Bank of England, the three major American television networks, as well as the Rothschild and Warburg families. He claimed that these families were so interrelated that to preserve their domination he found 64 examples where the Rothschilds had married first cousins. According to Touchstone, these international families provided the money to establish Vladimir Lenin in the former Soviet Union and continued to assist the international communist movement, Touchstone claimed. His claims have since been proven and have been the subject of several documentaries on the History Channel.

Six months prior to Touchstone's death, the United States observed the third annual celebration of the birth of Martin Luther King. In many cities with large numbers of minorities, the King holiday has become the third most popular of the year. The honor to King was especially troubling to Touchstone, who was never reconciled to desegregation and the turmoil, crime, and lower academic standings that he believed racial integration brought to southern schools, some of which became known for gangs, rape, narcotics, shootings, crime against teachers, and even closings from lack of enrollment. However, Billy McCormack, who also served on Representative Overton Brooks' staff, grew to accept desegregation, having served on Shreveport's Human Relations Commission, the Black History Committee, and the King Birthday Committee.