Ramsey Clark, who was LaRouche's chief appellate attorney and a former U. S. Attorney General, said that LaRouche was denied a fair trial.

LaRouche was born in Rochester, New Hampshire, the oldest of three children of Jessie Lenore ( née Weir ) and Lyndon H. LaRouche, Sr. His father worked for the United Shoe Machinery Corporation in Rochester before the family moved to Lynn, Massachusetts.

LaRouche wrote that many GIs feared they would be asked to support British forces in actions against Indian independence forces, and that prospect was " revolting to most of us.

For six months, LaRouche worked with American Healyite leader Tim Wohlforth, who later wrote that LaRouche had a " gargantuan ego ," and " a marvelous ability to place any world happening in a larger context, which seemed to give the event additional meaning, but his thinking was schematic, lacking factual detail and depth.

Members all over the world would send information to NCLC headquarters, which would distribute the information via briefings and other publications. LaRouche organized the network as a series of news services and magazines, which commentators say was done to gain access to government officials under press cover.

" LaRouche describes it in another location as " a new Whig association ," adding that an important objective of the party was to fight against " the attempted revival of the ' preventive nuclear war ' organization, the revived Committee on the Present Danger.

LaRouche would question spouses about their partner's sexual habits, the Times said, and in one case reportedly ordered a member to stop having sex with his wife because it was making him " politically impotent.

The Party for the Commonwealth of Canada was a Canadian political party formed by Canadians who supported the ideology of U. S. politician Lyndon LaRouche in the 1984, 1988 and 1993 elections.

and that the Mossad was responsible for the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Watergate scandal and the Monica Lewinsky affair ; and Lyndon LaRouche, who spoke about global finance and his proposal for a transcontinental highway.

The NALP was the Canadian affiliate of the Lyndon LaRouche movement, and later became the Party for the Commonwealth of Canada / Party for the Commonwealth-Republic.

It was originally a New Left organization influenced by Trotskyist ideas as well as those of other Marxists such as Rosa Luxemburg, but opposed other New Left organizations which LaRouche said were dominated by the Ford Foundation, Institute for Policy Studies and Herbert Marcuse.

Jeffrey Steinberg, LaRouche spokesperson and NCLC " director of counterintelligence ", described it as the " COINTELPRO memo ", which he says showed " that the FBI was considering supporting an assassination attempt against LaRouche by the Communist Party USA.

The reason Fred Newman and his colleagues provided for leaving the NCLC was a disagreement between LaRouche and Newman over what to do with the National Unemployed and Welfare Rights Organization ( NUWRO ), which the LaRouchians had founded the previous year ( Newman wanted to build it up, while LaRouche wanted to concentrate on more rarefied issues ).

However, the differences in life style between LaRouchians and Newmanites were equally important in triggering the split, with the notably puritanical LaRouche writing that there was no room in the NCLC for the CFC's unconventional ( by LaRouchian standards ) sexual practices.

This was after Mop Up was over, but while the LaRouche organization was still engaging in physical intimidation against black activists and West Coast leftists.

The institute was founded at a conference in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1984 by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the German-born wife of American political activist Lyndon LaRouche.

There he became a Professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey and an associate of Lyndon LaRouche, and was a founding board member of the Schiller Institute in 1984.

* Lyndon LaRouche, eight-time presidential candidate.

* Lyndon LaRouche, political activist and presidential candidate

It has also published editorials comparing the attacks by Seymour Hersh, and The New York Times on Leo Strauss and his alleged influence in the George W. Bush administration with those of Lyndon LaRouche, a fringe conspiracy theorist and perennial presidential candidate.

Fringe presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche regularly bought time on CBS and local stations in the 1980s.

In 2003, Red Letter Press and its managing editor, Helen Gilbert, were the target of a complaint to the Federal Election Commission by the campaign committee of perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche.

In that time, Liberty Lobby also tried to create connections to the American political left by redistributing a report critical of President Jimmy Carter authored by frequent third-party presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche and his NCLC.

In 1992, Brainin performed a benefit concert in Washington, D. C. for then-jailed presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche.

For more information on LaRouche's 1976 presidential campaign and the movement's legal disputes with the FEC, see Lyndon LaRouche U. S. Presidential campaigns.

By late summer of 1979 the NCLC and LaRouche had decided to join the Democratic Party so that LaRouche could run for that party's presidential nomination, and the US Labor Party was disbanded.

These organizations served as the platforms for presidential campaigns by LaRouche starting in 1976, and by his followers in scores of local races.

* " Why Lyndon LaRouche is in Jail " transcript of a national broadcast paid for by LaRouche's presidential campaign in 1992

LaRouche has stood as an American presidential candidate eight times.

Contributing editor Webster Tarpley said that the closure was an effort by " the invisible, secret, parallel government " to silence LaRouche because of his presidential campaigns.

Incarcerated fringe candidate Lyndon LaRouche won a few Arkansas delegates who were barred from the convention.

The USLP vice-presidential candidate, Khushro Ghandhi, campaigned in June 1979 and predicted victory based on support from the Teamsters ( a faction of the union had ties to LaRouche ).

* James J. Cleary, candidate in 1984 for New Jersey's 8th congressional district, in 1986 for New Jersey's 7th congressional district, in 1990 for New Jersey's 12th congressional district, in 1994 for New Jersey's 7th congressional district ( with the " LaRouche Was Right " party )

* William Ferguson, candidate in 1983 for School Committee in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1994 for U. S. Senate from Massachusetts ( with the " LaRouche Was Right " party ), in 2001 for Massachusetts's 9th congressional district

* Mel Klenetsky, co-director of political operations for the NDPC, national campaign director for LaRouche, candidate in 1982 for U. S. Senate from New York

According to one candidate, supporters viewed LaRouche as " the greatest political leader and economist of the 20th century, and they're proud to be associated with him.

LaRouche ran for president on eight consecutive occasions, a record for any candidate, and has tied Harold Stassen's record as a perennial candidate.

LaRouche himself polled negligible vote totals, but continued to promote himself as a serious political candidate, a claim which was sometimes accepted by elements of the media and some political figures.

In Minnesota, LaRouche was listed on the ballot under the " National Economic Recovery " party and his vice-presidential candidate was Debra Hanania Freeman.

In 1992, LaRouche became the second person in U. S. history ( after Eugene Debs ) to run for President from a prison cellalthough Debs was generally considered a serious candidate and was in jail for his political beliefs ( against World War I ) rather than for fraud.

Prior to the primaries the Chair of the Democratic National Party, Don Fowler, ruled that LaRouche " is not to be considered a qualified candidate for nomination of the Democratic Party for President " on account of LaRouche's " expressed political beliefs, including beliefs which are explicidy racist and anti-Semitic, and otherwise utterly contrary to the fundamental beliefs ... of the Democratic Party and ... on his past activities including exploitation of and defrauding contributors and voters.

However, according to the Federal Election Commission statistics, LaRouche had more individual contributors to his 2004 Presidential Campaign than any other candidate, until the final quarter of the primary season, when John Kerry surpassed him.

In 1996, he ran for the nomination of the Democratic party, despite the Chair of the Democratic National Party ruling that Lyndon LaRouche " is not to be considered a qualified candidate for nomination of the Democratic Party for President " before the primaries began.

Purportedly violence almost broke out as supporters of Lyndon LaRouche protesting outside the basilica were not looked at very kindly by local Poles, who had a reverence for the candidate they saw as the best hope against the loathed Communist regime in Poland.

Purportedly violence almost broke out as supporters of Lyndon LaRouche protesting outside the basilica were not looked at very kindly by local Poles, who had a reverence for the candidate they saw as the best hope against the loathed Communist regime in Poland.