Midlands News: 05.07.1962: Colin Jordan Interview

Summary

Bob Gillman interviews the fascist leader and Coventry school teacher Colin Jordan who was involved in a disturbance at the weekend in London with the extreme right wing National Socialist Movement.

Year:

1962

Duration:

0:03:32

Film type:

Black & White / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

Bob Gillman interviews Colin Jordan asking him first what he will do if he loses his job as a teacher and whether it is justifiable for him to hold his type of views and be a school teacher. Jordan blames Jews and Communists for the disturbances that took place in Trafalgar Square and later in the interview says that he wants British Jews to leave the country and go to Israel. He also says that he thinks that the last war was a mistake from the British point of view.


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Notes

Story number - 4323. In July 1962 the National Socialist Movement held their first rally in Trafalgar Square promoting a campaign to 'Free Britain from Jewish control' this meeting (at which Colin Jordan spoke) descended into a riot and is the background to this interview. Colin Jordan was suspended from his teaching position at Stoke Secondary Modern Boys School on the 4th of July. In 1968 he founded the similar British Movement.