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American terrorist and politician

Jesse Benjamin Stoner Jr. (April 13, 1924 – April 23, 2005) was an American lawyer, white supremacist, neo Nazi, segregationist politician, and domestic terrorist who perpetrated the 1958 bombing of the Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, but was not convicted for the bombing of the church until 1980.

Stoner admired segregationist politician Theodore G. Bilbo. He became active in white supremacist groups and traveled to Washington, D. C. to support Bilbo. Stoner rechartered a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Chattanooga when he was 18 years old. He ran the National States' Rights Party, founded by Edward Reed Fields, an associate of Stoner's. Stoner received a law degree from Atlanta Law School in 1952. He served as the attorney for James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) suspected that Stoner was also involved in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. as well as bombings of several synagogues and black churches during the 1950s and 1960s, such as the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. He lived at 591 Cherokee Street in "Old" Marietta, Georgia. As a "roving white supremacist", Stoner, along with Connie Lynch, was present in Bogalusa, Louisiana in 1965, performing the same road show to inflame white mobs in St. Augustine during the summer of 1964. Stoner ran for governor of Georgia in 1970. Prosecutors suspected that Stoner perpetrated as many as a dozen other bombings He was not prosecuted for any of those cases. he lived in hiding as a fugitive for four months. In 1984, he was permanently removed from the roster of lawyers who may appear before the United States Supreme Court. Stoner was released from prison for good behavior in 1986, having served 3 1/2 years of his sentence. In 1990, Stoner ran for lieutenant governor again.

After his release from prison and until his death at the age of 81, Stoner lived at a nursing home in northwest Georgia, still defending his segregationist views. In one of his last interviews he stated, "A person isn't supposed to apologize for being right." His left side was partially paralyzed as the result of a stroke. Stoner is buried at Forest Hills Cemetery in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Ephemeral materials, 198—by J B Stoner; Crusade Against Corruption. Wilcox Collection of Contemporary Political Movements, University of Kansas.

Stoner, J. B. & Erwin Saul. Interview with Sarah Kessler. J. B. Stoner and Erwin Saul comment on recent violence by the National States' Rights Party and similar organizations. Date unknown. .