Revilo P. Oliver

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Revilo P. Oliver
Revilo P. Oliver in 1963
Born	Revilo Pendleton Oliver (1908-07-07)July 7, 1908 Corpus Christi, Texas, U.S.
Died	August 20, 1994(1994-08-20) (aged 86) Urbana, Illinois, U.S.
Pen name	Ralph Perrier Paul Knutson
Occupation	Author, professor, commentator
Alma mater	Pomona College University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Subject	American conservatism, politics, anti-communism, White nationalism, religion, antisemitism, Holocaust denial
Spouse	Grace 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]