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it ' During a brawl instigated by uniformed NSRP members in 1963 in- San Bernardino, California, a 17-year-old youth was injured by shots fired from a pellet gun. Five members of the NSRP, including the "Reverend" Connie Lynch, ~ were arrested and booked for investigation for assault with a deadly weapon. Lynch was fined $200. In January, 1965, ‘Martin Luther King, the civil rights leader, was assaulted in the Hotel Albert in Selma, Alabama, by a member of the NSRP. This member later stated that an NSRP official had prevailed upon him to commit the assault. | aa In March, 1965, a rifle belonging to the California leader of the NSRP was found among hundreds of weapons confiscated bya sheriff's deputies during a raid on a gun factory in an industrial suburb of Los Angeles, California. The rifle was slated for conversion into a semiautomatic weapon. C. Menace to Society Most organizations--especially small ones like the NSRP--bear the stamp of the personality, character, and outlook of their principal leader. The NSRP clearly mirrors the personality and views of its top leader, Edward R. Fields, a fanatic and extremist who has been deeply involved in hate groups since he, was 14 years. old and who was diagnosed by a psychiatrist asa paranoiac personality. - 32 -