William Dudley Pelley Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
William Dudley Pelley was born on March 12, 1890 in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer, known for The Shock (1923), Drag (1929) and The Ladybird (1927). He was married to Helen Hansmann and Marian Stone. He died on June 30, 1965 in Noblesville, Indiana, USA.
Round spectacles, angular glasses and silver shirts with the letter "L" (for Legion) over the left breast pocket.
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"Call it the Hereafter, call it Heaven, call it Purgatory, call it the Astral Plane, call it the Fourth Dimension, call it What you will. Whatever it is - and where - that human entities go after being released from their physical limitations, I had gone there that night."
(recounting the "seven minutes of Eternity" he had in California on a
May night in 1928 when he left his body and bathed in an ornate pool "among jolly, worthwhile people".)
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Widley believed to be single-handedly responsibly for creating the myth of the "Benjamin Franklin Prophecy".
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Founded five publications: "Liberation", "Pelley's Silvershirt Weekly", "The New Liberator", the "Galilean" and "Roll-Call", which featured such headlines as "Why You Are Opposed by Invisible Persons", "Take Your Cues From the Great Pyramids" and "You Can Remember Before You Were Born".
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Founder and head of the nativist, ultra-right-wing and anti-Semitic American political organization The Silver Legion of America, nicknamed the "Silver Shirts," founded in Asheville, NC, in 1933 and disbanded in 1940. He was active in Hollywood and New York film circles from 1921 until 1929, at which date he became a publisher of metaphysical magazines with strong political flavor. His closest friends during those years were Lon Chaney, William Boyd and Neil Hamilton.
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Ran for President in 1936 on the Christian Party ticket. Washington was the only state that allowed him on the ballot (received 1,500+ votes).
$900,000
