European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a the stabs and stripes sunday october 6,1991 Forrest Carter right is shown in a photo taken a few years before his death in 1979. Researchers claim that the avowed segregationist wrote the education of Little tree which according to the books cover is a a True Cherokee autobiography writer unmasked As segregationist years before he wrote the ing. New York a education of Little tree the sensitive Best Selling autobiography of a Cherokee orphan the same author wrote these words for George Wallace a segregation now segregation tomorrow segregation forever a Forrest Carter the author was really Asa Quot aces Carter ardent White segregationist according to Carter s brother his friends and historians who have checked into Nis background. Doug Carter asap a brother told the Birmingham Ala Post Herald that Asa used a pen name because a the was trying to separate the political writer from the creative novel Quot there Sho question who this Guy really was Quot professor Dan t. Carter of Emory University said Friday in a Telephone interview from Atlanta. A the new age guru was a gun toting racist and this Book is a professor Carter who said he May be a Distant Cousin of Asa Carter plans to present evidence that Forrest was Asa in a Book or article. He said he Learned of asap a second life while working on a biography of Wallace. Asa Carter was a leading advocate of segregation in Alabama in the 1950s. He formed a paramilitary unit of about 100 men known As the original Kun flux klan of the confederacy. He was arrested in 1957 in connection with a klan shooting but charges were dropped. Carter also wrote speeches for Wallace but later ran for governor of Alabama against him saying Wallace Hall become too Liberal. The education of Little tree has sold about 500,000 a crack copies and this year the american books cd cars association voted it the Book they most enjoyed sell e Forrest Carter wrote several other books including a novel that was made into the film 77ic outlaw Josey Wales. Reports that Forrest Carter was Asa Carter Are at least 15 years old. In 1976, the new York times printed a Story that quoted several people who knew Asa As saying he was Forrest. The chief investigator in the state attorney general a office recognized him when he was interviewed on the today program. But Forrest Carter denied the charges and Eleanor Friede Carters editor at delacorte press stood by him. Several months later delacorte published Little tree. It did not sell Well and eventually went out of print Forrest Carter died in 1979 in Abilene Texas. In the mid-1980s, Friede sent the Book to the University of new Mexico press which re issued it after submitting it to two historians for review. The Book received Little Advance publicity but enthusiastic readers spread the word. The Book has been no. 1 on the new York times non fiction paperback Best seller list for the past three weeks. The Book purports to be Carters Memoir of his Days As the orphan Little tree who went to live with his Cherokee grandparents in Tennessee in the 1930s and Learned to love the mountains and Indian ways. Its cover describes the Book As Quot a True Carters widow India could not be reached for comment. Friede said India Carter Quot does no to feel comfortable using the Telephone a but had sent her a message by fax saying she would not respond to a these diabolical Leader arrested in Wichita from wire reports Wichita Kan. A Federal marshals Friday arrested an anti abortion protest Leader on contempt charges preventing him from addressing a rally. The Rev. Joe Lovenick of operation Rescue was arrested As he arrived to address a rally in Wichita where than 2,600 arrests have been made during 2vi months of anti abortion protests during the summer. . District judge Patrick Kelly who banned blockades of abortion clinics ordered Lovenick arrested for contempt and held in the Sedgwick county jail pending a hearing monday. Lovenick was arrested during the summer protests and ordered by Kelly to leave town and not return. He vowed however to return to Challenge the judges order. Supervising marshal Denis Amico said the arrest was made on direct order of Kelly swarm of earthquakes los Angeles a an area near Lassen Peak Volcano was rattled by about two dozen tiny earthquakes this week but the temblor did no to indicate an eruption was brewing the . Geological Survey said. A it was just movement on a fault a not underground migration of molten Rock said Rick Lester a seismologist at the Agency a regional Headquarters in Menlo Park. The earthquake a a swarm began tuesday afternoon and seemed to have subsided thursday evening. But a it could Start up again a uses seismologist Nan Macgregor Scott said Friday. Lester said the swarm of about two dozen quakes included seven measuring 2 to 2.8 on the Richter scale. A similar swarm was recorded in 1982 and lasted several Days. The quakes were entered in the thousand lakes Valley 18 Miles North of Lassen Peak and outside the Northern Boundary of Lassen volcanic National Park. The Park is in the Southern Cascade Range roughly 200 Miles Northeast of san Francisco. Witness against daddy Newark . A a burglar who looted a woman a Home of jewelry and $600 left behind an important clue a Nis 4-year-old daughter. When police arrived at the Home thursday morning they found the child in the hallway a crying for daddy Quot said detective Daniel Collins. The woman told police she was awakened by someone breaking into her front door. When she saw a Man with a Large knife headed upstairs she locked herself in the bathroom. Collins said the woman told of hearing a child a voice throughout the burglary saying a daddy in a hungry Quot a daddy i have to go the bathroom a Quot daddy Why is the lady crying a it was not immediately known Why the child was left behind. She was turned Over to the state division of youth and family services. No one had been arrested As of seeks to Clear husband in Lindbergh Case Flemington . A the 92-Ycar-old widow of the Man executed in 1936 for killing the kidnapped son of aviator Charles Lindbergh has renewed her quest to Clear his name. Anna Hauptmann revisited this Small town Friday for the first time since her husbands murder trial to again ask new Jersey gov. Jim Florio to declare that Bruno Richard Hauptmann was unfairly convicted. Florio said new Jersey attorney general Robert Del Tufo believes there is no reason to reopen what was then dubbed a the trial of the he did say he would look at material sent to him. In her second Public plea to Florio in 16 months Anna Hauptmann said she wants a Chance to convince him that Hauptmann did no to Kidnap and murder 20-month-old Charles a. Lindbergh or. In 1932. A my husband was never never near the Lindbergh Home a Anna Hauptmann said at a news conference at the Union hotel where the press and jury stayed during the trial. A they killed an innocent Anna Hauptmann said she was with her husband the night of the kidnapping. A we did no to even know there was a kidnapping until the next Day a she said. A Awny is the governor afraid to see me a Hauptmann went to the electric chair on april 3, 1936, about four years after the boy was abducted from the Lindbergh Home near Hopewell. The child a body was discovered shortly after the kidnapping in a shallow grave near the family Home. Hauptmann a German immigrant maintained his innocence. A the trial of the Century was probably the greatest fraud in the history of this country a said Robert r. Bryan the san Francisco attorney who represents Anna Hauptmann. A we have been in Contact with governor Florio a office for a year and a half now. Mrs. Hauptmann will be 93 years old in november. Time is running Bryan said hundreds of thousands of pages of documents and lost trial evidence prove the trial was filled with misrepresentations and fraud. He said evidence was suppressed witnesses were coerced or lied and testimony was changed. The Case was prosecuted by David t. Wilentz the father of the presiding chief of the new Jersey supreme court Robert Wilentz. Heading the investigation was h. Norman Schwarzkopf sr., father of Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf who directed Allied forces during the persian Gulf War. Anna Hauptmann appealed to Florio after Bryan a attempts to Clear her husbands name Over the past decade have failed. State courts turned Down the Case because the statute of limitations barred judicial review. In 1987, a Federal court judge said Bryan a charges against the investigating officers were vague. The state legislature has refused to intervene
