Behold a Pale Horse

About the author. Many people thought William Cooper was strange and laughably paranoid to some , A far-right conspiracy theorist. In his famous 1991 book, Behold a Pale Horse, Cooper wrote that President Kennedy was assassinated to prevent the exposure of a secret pact with space aliens! On his shortwave radio show, Cooper argued that the U.S. government had carried out the Oklahoma City bombing and that it was using remote mind-control devices to establish a socialistic "New World Order." As it turned out, Cooper, a one-time member of the so-called Second Continental Army of the Republic, was far more dangerous than your average conspiracy theorist. Before law enforcement officers served a warrant for his arrest on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, Cooper E-mailed pals that "I will ... try to kill as many as I can before they kill me." Guess what? Bill almost succeeded. After shooting a sheriff's deputy twice in the head, Cooper was killed by police on Nov. 6. This long standoff had begun in 1998 when federal authorities charged Cooper with tax evasion and bank fraud. Hoping to avoid a violent showdown, agents deferred serving the arrest warrant for over three years. That July, a local warrant was issued for Cooper's arrest because he "allegedly" had left his hilltop property to threaten a passerby with a gun. Sheriff's deputies disguised as pickup drivers and civilians tried to lure Cooper away from his house and his large stock of weapons He was heavily armed. The smart man that Cooper was, he surprised them by driving, not walking, to come to scare them off. When the officers identified themselves, Cooper drove home and then almost killed an officer when he swerved around a roadblock erected in front of his house. He shot the other deputy as he ran from his truck to the house. William Cooper was killed by multiple shots before he made it inside. An acquaintance of Cooper's said that they were lucky to get him when they did because Cooper kept a semi-automatic AK-47 by the front door. When authorities killed William Cooper in a burst of gunfire outside his hilltop home in eastern Arizona, he was an author and radio host who had attracted a Huge following among UFO buffs, prisoners and the militia movement. For them, his book, “Behold a Pale Horse,” and nightly shortwave radio show lifted the veil on how the world actually is