Revilo P. Oliver

This article is about the college professor. For the cartoonist, see Oliver Christianson.
Revilo P. Oliver
Revilo P. Oliver in 1963
Revilo P. Oliver in 1963
BornRevilo Pendleton Oliver
(1908-07-07)July 7, 1908
Corpus Christi, Texas, U.S.
DiedAugust 20, 1994(1994-08-20) (aged 86)
Urbana, Illinois, U.S.
Pen nameRalph Perrier
Paul Knutson
OccupationAuthor, professor, commentator
Alma materPomona College
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
SubjectAmerican conservatism, politics, anti-communism, White nationalism, religion, antisemitism, Holocaust denial
SpouseGrace Needham

Revilo Pendleton Oliver (July 7, 1908 – August 20, 1994) was an American professor of Classical philology, Spanish, and Italian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a co-founder of the John Birch Society in 1958, where he published in its magazine, American Opinion, before resigning in 1966.[1] He later advised a Holocaust denial group.[2] He was a polemicist for right-wing, white nationalist and antisemitic causes.[3]

Oliver attracted national notoriety in the 1960s when he published an article after the President John F. Kennedy assassination, alleging that Lee Harvey Oswald was part of a Soviet conspiracy against the United States. He was called to testify before the Warren Commission investigating the murder.[4]

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  4. ^ Warren Commission Hearings, vol. XV, November 1964, p. 709