Biography
Gerald Burton Winrod was a Wichita evangelist and publisher who founded the Defenders of the Christian Faith and edited The Defender. He combined religious fundamentalism with antisemitic conspiracy theories and sympathy for Nazi Germany. He sought the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Kansas in 1938. He was named in the January 3, 1944 Washington indictment alleging conspiracy to undermine military loyalty under the Smith Act. The mass trial ended in a mistrial on December 7, 1944. The indictment was dismissed in December 1946; no conviction resulted in this case.
