Firsthand Perspectives from the Sam Woodward Trial: A Conversation with Louis Keene

On July 3rd, 2024, a Orange County, California jury found Sam Woordward guilty of first degree murder with a hate crime enhancement for the 2018 killing of Blaze Bernstein. On July 25 at 1 PM ET, the Program on Extremism hosted reporter Louis Keene to discuss his coverage of the nearly three-month trial of Woodward—a member of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division who was accused by prosecutors of luring Bernstein to a park in order to commit an act of hateful violence in the name of the group. In a discussion hosted by Program on Extremism research fellow Jon Lewis, the panelists discussed Keene’s firsthand perspectives from inside the courtroom and detail key findings from the trial.