C-SPAN covers the Legendary Richard Butler and the Aryan Nations 14/88 White Nationalist Group

In his early life, Richard Butler was a very successful aeronautical engineer and inventor, holding several patents until, in the early 1970s, he moved with his family from Palmdale, California, to North Idaho, where he founded the Aryan Nations,whose ideology is a mixture of Christian Identity and National Socialism. The organization operated from a 20-acre compound in Hayden Lake, Idaho, a suburb of the tourist town Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, which became the center of a National Socialist network with worldwide links. Beginning in the 1980s, Butler was implicated in plots to overthrow the United States government, and he had ties to other rightwing groups such as The Order, Posse Comitatus, The Covenent, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord, and the larger pro-white Christian Identity Movement.