George Lincoln Rockwell visited Wisconsin State University-Eau Claire to give a speech as the head of the American Nazi movement on February 16, 1967. Rockwell was touring Wisconsin campuses and “angled for an invitation from a WSU campus and quickly accepted one from Eau Claire-not from the University Forum or the Arena of Ideas, but from the College Republicans and the College Democrats…Haas stepped in and decided the invitation must be honored in the name of free speech, but only university students, faculty, and staff would be admitted. This would not be a University Forum event where non-university residents of the Chippewa Valley are welcome” (Gough and Oberly, Building Excellence: University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire 1916-2016, p. 158). Dr. Karl Andresen introduced George Lincoln Rockwell in spite of protests, saying that he would never want to see the day where outside pressures would prevent certain speakers from giving presentations to American college students. Rockwell founded the American Nazi Party in 1958 in Arlington, Virginia, with an estimated nationwide membership at under 1000 at the time of Rockwell’s death. Rockwell was shot and killed on August 25, 1967, by John Patler, known as the Nazi’s “Minister of Propaganda”. Patler was a former member of Rockwell’s Nazi group.