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Hispanic Link News Service
HOUSTON, Texas —James W. Von Brunn, 88 years old, is the alleged lone wolf who went into the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 10. Steven T. Jones, the 39-year-old security guard, in an act of kindness, opened the door for the elderly gunman who had a concealed rifle and shot Jones in the chest at close range. Von Brunn — a Holocaust denier, with a history of anti-Semitism and extreme racist views — was shot in the face by guards who returned fire. He now faces homicide charges.
While no one can undo the homicide of Steven Jones, we can ask whether there really aren’t other wrongdoers in carrying out the act, others and elements who act like microbes, fester and turned up the fever that leads to murder.
James Von Brunn, born in 1920, is said to have been associated with right-wing white supremacists. It’s known that in 1964, former Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Pedro Del Valle gave Von Brunn a copy of “The Iron Curtain over America,” by John T. O‘Beaty, which Von Brunn said, “For the first time, I learned how Jews had destroyed Europe and were now destroying America.”
“The Iron Curtain over America,” (1951) was called by the Anti-Defamation League of B’Nai B’Rith one of the most anti-Semitic books ever written in the United States. In it, O’Beaty claimed Eastern European Jews, such as Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and Samuel Rosenman, President Franklin Roosevelt’s speechwriter, were part of that conspiracy. The book also gave intellectual currency to some of the anti-communist outrages Sen. Joseph McCarthy was associated with.
Del Valle also recommended Von Brunn to a position with right-wing book publisher Noontide Press, whose founder Willis Carto was a Holocaust denier, and who formed Liberty Lobby that aspired to have public policy influence.
General del Valle previously had a very distinguished military career in both World Wars and was the first Hispanic to reach the rank of lieutenant general. In 1946 he was considered by President Truman as a possible governor of Puerto Rico, when the post was an appointive one. Del Valle retired from the military in 1948. In 1953,
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