Topic: The Story Behind The Story of Josey Wales

[Ken (OP)]

... this is a movie that I've enjoyed watching more that once, but I never knew that it was written by the racist bastard who wrote much of the hate filled speech of George Wallace. 

The Story Behind The Story of Josey Wales
The movie was based on the book, The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales  by Asa Earl Carter

Asa Earl Carter (September 4, 1925 – June 7, 1979) was a 1950s segregationist speech writer, and later Western novelist. He co-wrote George Wallace's well-known pro-segregation line of 1963, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever", and ran in the Democratic primary for governor of Alabama on a segregationist ticket. Years later, under the alias of supposedly Cherokee writer Forrest Carter, he wrote The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (1972), a Western novel that led to a 1976 National Film Registry film, and The Education of Little Tree (1976), a best-selling, award-winning book which was marketed as a memoir but which turned out to be fiction.

[Skhilled]

Ouch! But yes, a lot of things like that were done the same way.