Editing Fred Crisman (section)

==Broadcasting and politics==
Starting on August 1, 1968, Crisman hosted a [[talk radio|radio talk show]] under the pseudonym "Jon Gold" on station [[KSUH|KAYE]].<ref name="KT"/>  Crismann authored a pamphlet, under his radio name Jon Gold, titled "What to do until Sanity Returns" which he advertised on his show.  The work denounced [[sensitivity training]] as "Communist-oriented" brainwashing.  Crisman's pamphlet called for widespread infiltration and disruption of civic organizations like Parent-Teacher Associations.<ref name="newspapers1">{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/734905343/ |title=The News Tribune 01 Nov 1968, page 47 |publisher=Newspapers.com |date=1968-11-01 |access-date=2022-12-29|df=mdy-all}}</ref>  Wrote Crisman:
:"You must take a page from the Communist Manifesto... You must learn to halt the elections at P-TA units.  Do not stop with school organizations, infiltrate each garden club, suborn its social policy and convert it to an [[agit-prop]] group."

In January 1969, Crisman was sued for libel along with other KAYE personalities by a city official who had been accused of being a communist;<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/735044347/|title=The News Tribune 30 Jan 1969, page 1|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The case was dismissed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/735269324/|title=The News Tribune 04 Feb 1970, page 50|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

Crisman authored a book, ''The Murder of a City, Tacoma'' published in 1970 through Transistor Publishing Company. The book was described by reviewer Michael Sullivan as a "weird, politically slanted rant" that manages to "tie corruption in Tacoma to everything from communist infiltrators to the Kennedy assassination".<ref name=Sullivan>{{cite web |last1=Sullivan |first1=Michael |title=On a Small Tacoma Bookshelf |url=http://www.historictacoma.org/ht/files/websitetacoma_bookshelf.doc |website=HistoricTacoma.org |publisher=Historic Tacoma|access-date=August 8, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924030408/http://www.historictacoma.org/ht/files/websitetacoma_bookshelf.doc|archive-date=September 24, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In November 1970, KAYE was the subject of hearings by the FCC amid complaints that the station violated the Fairness Doctrine. Crisman's behavior was the subject of extensive discussion, with one witness arguing his playing of "Nazi war songs" had jeopardized the station's licence.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/735276228/|title=The News Tribune 28 Nov 1970, page 23|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/735271594|title=The News Tribune 25 Nov 1970, page 2|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  Citizens opposed to KAYE discussed the stations promotion of the [[Protocols of the Elders of Zion|antisemitic conspiracy theories]] and presented transcripts of Crisman making anti-black comments.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/735290283|title=The News Tribune 11 Dec 1970, page 3|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref><!-- Crisman May 28, 1969:  "I get a big kick out of this, you're big-shot independents, you blacks.  But when a wise guy like Dave Rowlands can twist you around and make you go down any street he wants you to go, boy, you sure got brains..  Go ahead, black man, pick up your spear, pick up your guns, pick up your Swahili clothes, and then say to your master Mr. Rowlands: 'Which way we go boss' and he'll point the trail out for you" https://www.newspapers.com/image/735290283--> One listener reported that "she heard a KAYE broadcast of the Jon Gold Show in which reference was made by a caller to getting rid of Rowlands in the manner which President John Kennedy and his brother were disposed of".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/735289622/|title=The News Tribune 08 Dec 1970, page 37|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  Crisman resigned from KAYE.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/735288085/|title=The News Tribune 02 Dec 1970, page 67|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  Two subpoenas were issued for Crisman to appear before the hearings, but he disappeared and could not be located.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/735288373/|title=The News Tribune 04 Dec 1970, page 2|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

In 1970, Crisman was appointed to the Library Board, despite objections about his false claims of having held a doctorate.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/735139235|title=The News Tribune 07 Jan 1970, page 4|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  Crisman was elected Vice-President of the Tacoma library board.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/735269681/ |title=23 Mar 1972, 11 – The News Tribune at Newspapers.com |access-date=January 9, 2022 |archive-date=January 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220111091727/https://www.newspapers.com/image/735269681/ |url-status=live}}</ref>  Crisman was named as a possible investor in Tacoma cable television.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/735137375|title=The News Tribune 18 Feb 1970, page 1|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Local news discussed whether a gun had been allowed inside KAYE.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/874296127/|title=Kitsap Sun 02 Apr 1970, page 2|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>