Louis Beam

Louis Ray Beam, Jr. is an American white supremacist, conspiracy theorist, and neo-fascist. After high school, he joined the United States Army and served as a helicopter door-gunner in Vietnam. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Once he returned to the United States, he became a Klansman, leading a maritime Louisiana KKK element and a Klan rally in Texas against government help to Vietnamese immigrant fi…