1. William David McCalden was a British far-right political activist.
12 Facts About David McCalden
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David McCalden left Northern Ireland in 1972 to study at Goldsmiths College in London.
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David McCalden graduated in 1974 with a Certificate in Education.
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David McCalden first became involved in politics as a member of the National Front, where he became editor of the party newspaper Nationalist News.
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David McCalden became a leading contributor to the party journal Britain First.
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David McCalden was an active member of the Hunt Saboteurs Association and edited their journal HOWL for a couple of years.
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David McCalden was expelled from the HSA in June 1978, after a debate and vote at their Newcastle AGM, for his contributions to "racist magazines".
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David McCalden emigrated to the United States and arrived in California in 1978.
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David McCalden soon garnered a reputation as an advocate of Holocaust denial and became the leading organizational figure within the IHR.
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In 1980, acting as "Lewis Brandon" and on behalf of the IHR, David McCalden offered a $50,000 reward for proof that Jews were gassed to death in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
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On 15 October 1990, at the age of 39, David McCalden died in El Segundo, California, from complications due to viral pneumonia caused by AIDS.
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David McCalden had been suffering from AIDS since November 1988.