Johnny lee clary biography book

American preacher and professional wrestler

Johnny Lee Clary (June 18, – October 21, ) was an American former professional wrestler, white supremacist, and later preacher. Clary served as a Ku Klux Klan leader before he became a Pentecostal Christian, traveling around the world preaching the gospel and teaching against racism and hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and the Aryan Nations.

Clary, under the stage name Johnny Angel, also wrestled in the National Wrestling Federation (NWF) during the s.

Early life

Johnny Lee Clary was born on June 18, , in Martinez, California.^[1] He was reportedly raised in a racist home, where his father encouraged racist language and abusive treatment of black people^[2] and saw to it that Clary attended an all-white church.^[3] Although Clary's father, a Catholic, was not a Klansman, Clary claimed that his paternal uncle, Harold, was a member and that Harold boasted to Clary's fat