John Colin Campbell Jordan was a leading figure in post-war neo-Nazism in Great Britain.
18 Facts About Colin Jordan
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Colin Jordan joined the League of Empire Loyalists and became its Midlands organiser.
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At Cambridge Colin Jordan formed a Nationalist Club, from which he was invited to join the short-lived British People's Party, a group of former British Union of Fascists members led by Lord Tavistock, heir to the Duke of Bedford.
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Colin Jordan later merged this party with the National Labour Party to form the British National Party in 1960, although he split from it after a quarrel with John Bean, who was opposed to Colin Jordan's advocacy of Nazism.
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In 1962, Colin Jordan founded the National Socialist Movement with John Tyndall as its leader.
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Colin Jordan was dismissed by the board of governors of the Coventry school where he taught in August 1962 after a period of suspension that had begun after the events in Trafalgar Square.
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Colin Jordan was the commander of its European section throughout the 1960s and was elected "World Fuhrer" with George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, as his deputy.
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Undercover police observed Colin Jordan leading the group in military manoeuvres.
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Colin Jordan was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment in October 1962.
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On 5 October 1963, while John Tyndall was still in prison, Colin Jordan, who had just been released, married Tyndall's fiancee, Francoise Dior, the former wife of a French nobleman and the niece of the French fashion designer Christian Dior.
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Colin Jordan had previously been defeated in the 1964 general election in the Smethwick constituency after racist campaigning tactics were employed by Colin Jordan and his followers.
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On 25 January 1967, Colin Jordan was sentenced to eighteen months in prison at Devon Assizes in Exeter for breaking the Race Relations Act 1965 by circulating material that was likely to cause racial hatred.
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Colin Jordan reorganised the National Socialist Movement as the British Movement in 1968, but in 1974 he was obliged to step down from its leadership in favour of Michael McLaughlin.
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Colin Jordan's demise was further accelerated by his arrest and subsequent conviction for shoplifting three pairs of women's red knickers from Tesco's Leamington Spa branch in June 1975.
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Colin Jordan maintained ties to groups led by Eddy Morrison and Kevin Watmough, such as the White Nationalist Party and the British People's Party as well as the American National Socialist Workers Party.
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Colin Jordan once declared that there was "no reliable evidence whatsoever" that six million Jews had been murdered in the Holocaust.
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Colin Jordan was back in court in 2001, after being charged with publishing racist literature, but the judge ruled that his serious heart condition made him unfit to stand trial.
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Colin Jordan dedicated his 2004 book The Uprising to the jailed white supremacists Richard Scutari and David Lane.