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Re: Documenting America's white nationalists
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My next trip to the Hall family home on April 30, 2011, was also my last. Hall's children played in the backyard and ate sub sandwiches as I took photographs of them.

The very last image I took in the house, that Saturday afternoon, was of blond, blue-eyed Joseph sitting on the stairs, his shoes so small for his growing feet that his toes poked through. Next to him stood an NSM member in his black, steel-toed combat boots.

After we all left that evening, Hall and his friend Butch drove another NSM member home to San Diego. Hall returned a few hours later, drank whiskey and fell asleep on the worn, beige sofa.

Some time after that, Joseph, who was supposed to be sleeping beside his four younger sisters, aged from three months to nine years old, made his way downstairs. He approached his father with a raised Rossi .357 magnum handgun, and pulled the trigger.

The bullet entered a few inches behind Hall's ear, killing him instantly.

'To start all over'

At around 11 the following morning, I received a call from Butch: "I'd just like to let you know, since you were just at the house with us, yesterday… that Jeff is dead."

He continued: "I just drove to his house to bring a box of doughnuts. That's what I do on Sundays. There was police tape blocking off the cul-de-sac. I asked the neighbour who was standing outside. She told me that Jeff had been shot. I don't know anything else. I left … I don't want to talk to the police."

Joseph was taken into custody that morning. He said that his father had threatened to kill the family. "He said he was gonna turn off the smoke alarms and burn the whole house down when we were asleep …. That really scared me."

He said that he was afraid that "dad was going to do something that would make mum go away. I didn't want my mum to leave … dad was kinda mean. So I thought maybe it would be him to leave."

When the detective pressed Joseph to see if he understood what he had done, the 10-year-old answered: "I wasn't really thinking about if he was gonna die or get unconscious … I was trying to get him to know how I feel when I get hurt …. Then maybe we could go back to being friends and start all over."

Ironically, the harm that befell members of the NSM came mainly from within. Jeff Hall's life was not the only one that ended violently that year.

A few months after Hall died, a friend of his and fellow NSM member, Norm, took his own life. Then, almost exactly a year later, another member, J.T. Ready, killed his 47-year-old girlfriend, her daughter and infant granddaughter, the daughter's fiancé and himself.

This article first appeared in the November 2014 issue of the Al Jazeera Magazine. For more compelling stories, download the magazine for iPads and iPhones here, and for Android devices here.

Source: Al Jazeera



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