Edward Reed Fields

Edward Reed Fields (born September 30, 1932) is an American white supremacist. He helped found the National States' Rights Party, and was for several decades the editor of the white supremacist newspaper The Thunderbolt, later renaming it The Truth At Last.

Early life Fields was born in 1932 in Chicago, Illinois, and moved at an early age to Atlanta, Georgia, where he graduated from Catholic school. He first became interested in Nazism aged 14.

Fields attended law school in Atlanta, but transferred to the Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1953 and graduated in 1956. Fields began practice as a chiropractor, although this occupation was soon overshadowed by his political activity.

In 1976, following Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley's opening of prosecution against Robert Edward Chambliss, who was one of the bombers of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Fields wrote a letter to Baxley, referring to him as an "honorary nigger" and threatening to assassinate him. Baxley responded with his own letter the following day, telling Fields, "My response to your letter of February 19, 1976, is - kiss my ass."

Later Following J. B. Stoner's imprisonment for his involvement in the 1958 Bethel Baptist Church bombing, Fields lost the trust of many party members, largely due to his increasing activity with the Ku Klux Klan and decreasing involvement with the party, and was expelled from the party in August 1983. He continued publishing The Thunderbolt, but changed the newspaper's name to The Truth At Last. Fields founded the white supremacist America First Party in 1993, and spoke at the Populist Party's 1994 convention.

Fields attended the 2001 funeral of Klansman Byron De La Beckwith, who murdered civil rights activist Medgar Evers. He was a member of the neo-Nazi organization the National Alliance, though left to join Kevin Alfred Strom's schism organization the National Vanguard in 2005.

In 2008, Fields retired from politics.