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 Thursday July 25, 2002 16:50 by Pat c
 Gone to Valhalla (more likely Hades) HILLSBORO, West Virginia (CNN) -- William Pierce, the neo-Nazi whose novel "The Turner Diaries" inspired Timothy McVeigh to bomb the Oklahoma City federal building, died Tuesday at age 68. Pierce died Tuesday afternoon of kidney and liver cancer, a source closeto him told CNN. Groups who monitor the National Alliance also reported Pierce's death. Neo-Nazi leader Pierce dead at 68 July 24, 2002 Posted: 10:18 AM EDT (1418 GMT) HILLSBORO, West Virginia (CNN) -- William Pierce, the neo-Nazi whose novel "The Turner Diaries" inspired Timothy McVeigh to bomb the Oklahoma City federal building, died Tuesday at age 68. Pierce earned a doctorate in physics and later taught at Oregon State University. But as the leader of the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group based in a compound in Hillsboro, West Virginia, Pierce espoused hard-line anti-Semitic and anti-black rhetoric. The National Alliance is considered the largest extremist group on the American far right. It is estimated to have 7,000 to 8,000 active members and at least double that number of donors, according to sources who monitor the groups. "The Turner Diaries," written under the pseudonym Andrew MacDonald, described the violent overthrow of the federal government and the extermination of
The Anti-Defamation League, which monitors extremist groups, said "We hope Calls to the Hillsboro compound were not returned.
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