Transcripts for CNN CNN Special Report 20191103 02:27:00

>> selling half a million copies in the years that followed. >> it's to this point the most influential piece of white supremacist writing that exists. >> and what began as fiction became a real-life rebellion. >> white power! >> powerful new white supremacist armies sprung up in the 1980s, boasting tens of thousands of hardcore members. >> you could say we're the front line soldiers for the movement. >> many were directly inspired by the book. they took their name from the book, the order. >> there was a sea change in the kind of activity carried out by the white power movement. >> the groups adopted the book's terrorist tactics. >> they stole $4 million. >> including armed robberies to get funding. >> allen burr was murdered. >> and assassinations. >> ten defendants were charged with conspiracy to overthrow the u.s. government. >> the federal government tried

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