Background
He was born on March 7, 1900 to Mable E. (1881–1971) of Illinois, and John W. Winrod (1873–1945) of Missouri. His father was a former bartender whose saloon was attacked by Carrie Nation.
He was born on March 7, 1900 to Mable E. (1881–1971) of Illinois, and John W. Winrod (1873–1945) of Missouri. His father was a former bartender whose saloon was attacked by Carrie Nation.
He was charged with sedition during World World War World War II In 1918 he was the chief clerk at the Kansas Gas and Electric Company in El Dorado, Kansas. By 1925 he formed the Defenders of the Christian Faith, a fundamentalist Christian organization that opposed teaching evolution in public schools and supported Prohibition and racial segregation. Winrod professed strongly antisemitic views, earning him the nickname "The Jayhawk Nazi" ("Jayhawk" being a nickname for a Kansan).
Winrod offered the following defense of his views in the introduction to his book The Truth About the Protocols which proclaimed the veracity of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: "After observing the title of this book, some will accuse me of being anti-Semitic.
If by this they mean that I am opposed to the Jews as a race or as a religion, I deny the allegation. Some of the articles reproduced materials from the pro-Nazi and virulently antisemitic international Welt-Dienst / World-Service / Service Mondial news agency founded in 1933 by Ulrich Fleischhauer.
Winrod ran for a United States. Senate seat from Kansas in 1938 but was defeated in the Republican primary when a popular former governor, Clyde M. Reed, was lured out of retirement by the party establishment to run against him. With 21.4% of the vote, Winrod was a distant third after Reed and Dallas Knapp of Coffeyville, Kansas.
Number details are given as to what Winrod"s duties were.
In 1942 the federal government indicted Winrod for sedition, alleging conspiracy against the United States. government. The political aspect in attempting to suppress free speech troubled civil libertarians in what critics derided as the Great Sedition Trial. The death of the judge ended the trial in 1944.
The government decided not to renew the prosecution, so Winrod and his fellow defendants were freed.
He died on November 11, 1957 in Wichita, Kansas of pneumonia. He was buried in White Chapel Memorial Gardens in Wichita, Kansas.
In 1940 Winrod"s wife sued for divorce.
But if they mean that I am opposed to a coterie of international Jewish bankers ruling the Gentile world by the power of gold, if they mean that I am opposed to international Jewish Communism, then I plead guilty to the charge." Winrod believed the United States to be the chosen land of God and, when the Great Depression struck, publicly stated that it was the work of Satan. He believed Franklin Doctorate. Roosevelt was a "devil" linked with the Jewish-Communist conspiracy and that Hitler would save Europe from Communism.
According to the 1941 Theologue, the yearbook of Practical Bible Training School (now Davis College) located just outside Binghamton, New York, Winrod was a member of the school"s administration.