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{{Infobox person

| name = William Luther Pierce

| image = William Luther Pierce.jpg

| image_size = 150px

| caption = Pierce in 2001

| other_names = Andrew Macdonald

| birth_name = William Luther Pierce III

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1933|9|11}}

| birth_place = [[Wikipedia:Atlanta|Atlanta]], [[Wikipedia:Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|7|23|1933|9|11}}

| death_place = [[Wikipedia:Mill Point, West Virginia|Mill Point, West Virginia]], U.S.

}}

'''William Luther Pierce III''' (September 11, 1933 – July 23, 2002) was an American [[Wikipedia:neo-Nazi|neo-Nazi]], [[Wikipedia:White supremacy|white supremacist]], [[Wikipedia:Antisemitism|antisemitic]] author, and political commentator.<ref name="SPLC-Bio">{{cite news |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/william-pierce | title=William Pierce|work=[[:Category:Southern Poverty Law Center|Southern Poverty Law Center]] |accessdate=March 16, 2021|quote=America's most important neo-Nazi for some three decades until his death in 2002.}}</ref><ref name="Johnston">{{cite news|last=Johnston|first=David Cay|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/24/us/william-pierce-69-neo-nazi-leader-dies.html|title=William Pierce, 69, Neo-Nazi Leader, Dies|work=The New York Times|date=July 24, 2002|accessdate=March 16, 2021|quote=Throughout nearly 40 years as a promoter of white supremacy, Dr. Pierce argued on his radio program, in his newspaper and in books that just whites should live in the United States, because 'white people must have living space exclusive to ourselves if the white race is to survive.'}}</ref>><ref name="Gettleman">{{cite news|last=Gettleman|first=Jeffrey|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jul/24/local/me-pierce24|title=William L. Pierce, 68; Ex-Rocket Scientist Became White Supremacist|work=Los Angeles Times|date=July 24, 2002|accessdate=December 24, 2018|quote=William L. Pierce, a rocket scientist turned neo-Nazi writer who used a mix of intellect and hate to rise to the top of the American white supremacist movement and become the 'godfather' of skinheads, died Tuesday in his West Virginia compound.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| last = White| first = Jonathan R.| title = Terrorism and Homeland Security|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XINTCwAAQBAJ&q=william+pierce&pg=PA289|year=2016|page=289| isbn = 9781305633773}}</ref> For more than 30 years, he was one of the highest profile individuals of the white nationalist movement. A [[Wikipedia:physicist|physicist]] by profession, he was author of the novels ''[[:Category:Turner Diaries|The Turner Diaries]]'' and ''[[Wikipedia:Hunter (Pierce novel)|Hunter]]'' under the pseudonym '''Andrew Macdonald'''. The former has inspired multiple [[Wikipedia:hate crime|hate crimes]] and the [[Wikipedia:Oklahoma City bombing|1995 Oklahoma City bombing]].<ref name="ADLTurner">{{cite news|url=https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/turner-diaries|title=The Turner Diaries|work=Anti-Defamation League|accessdate=September 10, 2019|quote=Days before he bombed the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and wounding 500 others, McVeigh mailed a letter to his sister warning that 'something big is going to happen,' followed by a second envelope with clippings from ''The Turner Diaries''.}}</ref> Pierce founded the [[Wikipedia:National Alliance (United States)|National Alliance]], a white nationalist organization, which he led for almost thirty years.

==See also==

*{{Wikipedia-inline|William Luther Pierce}}

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