{{Infobox person
| name=Ned O'Neal Touchstone<br>
(Radical Right journalist and publisher of ''The Councilor,''iclorfrom Shreveport, Louisianathe official journal of the White Citizens' Council)
| birth_date=September 27, 1926
| birth_place=Florien, Sabine Parish<br>[[Louisiana]], [[United States|USA]]<br>
| death_date=July 16, 1988 (aged 61)
|nationality=[[United States|American]]
| spouse==June A. McGehee Touchstone<br>
Three children:<br>
David Mark Lauren TouchstoneWebb<br>Lia David Mark Touchstone Tippit<br>Lauren Lia Touchstone WebbTippit<br>
Parents:<br>
Sam F. and Carrie Moore Touchstone
| relations=Danny Roy Moore (cousin)
| religion=
Touchstone decried the civil rights activists and their determination to bring desegregation to the South. He claimed that [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], whom he claimed had political and financial ties with international [[communism]]. Touchstone targeted the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, a communist front group in which [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] had been active prior to 1963. The "Fair Play" group sent busloads of northern blacks into the South to accelerate [[Segregation|desegregation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32129399.pdf|title=Kennedy Assassination Collection Full Results|author=William A.
Branigan|publisher=archives.gov|accessdate=August 14, 2017}}</ref>
Touchstone and another Radical Right ally, George Singelmann, of the Greater [[New Orleans]] Citizens' Council, then organized the "Reverse Freedom Ride movement," which raised funds to provide bus trips for southern blacks into Northeastern cities populated by large numbers of white citiznes who mostly favored the desegregation of the southern states. The disgruntled southern minorities were encouraged to relocate to Hyannis Port, [[Massachusetts]], the site of President Kennedy's compound, or to other cities where northern leaders who supported civil rights legislation lived. Touchstone claimed that his "Reverse Freedom Rides" neutralized the "Fair Play for Cuba" activists. After some months, the "Reverse Freedom Rides ended in failure.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nola.com/news/politics/article_4ea26568-7608-5f9f-969f-86dd7bb5fb85.html|title=Reverse Freedom Rides sent African Americans out of the South, some for good|publisher=''New Orleans Times PicayumePicayune''|date=May 22, 2011|author=Katy Reckdahl|accessdate=August 25, 2019}}</ref>
After the Kennedy assassination, Touchstone traveled and devoted himself to compiling the most detailed, fact-proven essay on the conspiracy that planned and hid the truth of Kennedy's murder in [[Dallas]]. Touchstone questioned the [[Warren Commission]]'s report, which claims President Kennedy died from a single bullet fired by a lone gunman. For years, Touchstone investigated Kennedy's assassination and supported the conspiracy viewpoint formulated by District Attorney Jim Garrison of [[New Orleans]]. Since that time, many books, documentaries and even a [[Hollywood]] film, ''JFK,'' avowed that a conspiracy was responsible for Kennedy's assassination.The notes and photos that Touchstone compiled were used for the basis of the film ''JFK'' regarding [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] as the possible "fall-guy" and the U.S. government potentially engaging in a cover-up of the assassination so as to hide the real reasons for the killing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/clinton4.htm|title=The Clinton (Louisiana) Witnesses Linking Clay Shaw to Oswald|author=Dave Reitzes|publisher=Mcadams.posc.mu.edu|accessdate=March 24, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://coverthistory.blogspot.com/2005/12/ned-touchstone-david-ferrie-and-jim.html|title=Covert History: Ned Touchstone, David Ferrie, and Jim Garrison|publisher=Coverthistory.blogspot.com|date=December 22, 2005|accesdate=August 24, 2019}}</ref>
An early critic of [[globalism]], Touchstone singled out "dangerous" groups promoting one-world government under the direction of international elites. He questioned the integrity of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]], the [[Federal Reserve System]], the Bank of France, the [[Bank of England]], the three major American television networks, as well as the [[Rothschild family|Rothschilds]] and the Warburgs banking families.<ref name=thecouncilor/> Touchstone claimed that these families were so interrelated that to preserve their domination he found fifty-eight examples up until 1910 of the Rothschilds marrying first cousins. Touchstone alleged that these international families provided the money to establish [[Vladimir Lenin]] in the former [[Soviet Union]] and continued to assist the international communist movement.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jta.org/1934/09/16/archive/rothschilds-married-cousins|title=Rothschilds Married Cousins|publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|date=September 16, 1934|accessdate=August 25, 2019}}</ref>
Six months prior to Touchstone's death, the United States officially observed the third annual celebration of the birth of Martin Luther King. In many cities with large numbers of minorities, the King holiday has become one of the most popular holidays of the year. The honor to King was especially troubling to Touchstone, who was never reconciled to desegregation and the turmoil, crime, and lower academic standings that he believed integration brought to southern schools, some of which became known for gangs, [[rape]], [[narcotics]], shootings, crimes against teachers, and even closings from lack of enrollment. However, Billy McCormack, who also served on Representative Overton Brooks' staff, grew to accept desegregation, having served on Shreveport's Human Relations Commission, the Black History Committee, and the Martin Luther King Birthday Committee.<ref name=mccormack/>
On November 4, 1967, Touchstone ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat for Louisiana state superintendent of education. He claimed that he would use administrative measures to thwart the accelerating process of school desegregation in Louisiana, which was completed fully under federal court decrees in August 1970. He was badly defeated by [[incumbent]] [[Bill Dodd|William J. "Bill" Dodd]], a long-time Louisiana politician who sought a second term as superintendent.<ref>''[[Shreveport Journal]],'' November 6, 1967, p. 1.</ref> Dodd formerly served as lieutenant governor under [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]].
In that same primary election, John McKeithen won overwhelmingly his second consecutive term as governor over the intra-party challenge of conservative [[U.S. Representative]] John Richard Rarick (1924-2009).
Touchstone was born in Sabine Parish, and Dodd, who was seventeen years Touchstone's senior, was reared in Sabine Parish.
Touchstone's mother, Carrie Moore Touchstone (1906-1982), is interred at Old Town Cemetery in Haynesville in Claiborne Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Touchstone&GSfn=Carrie&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=15890296&df=all&|title=Carrie Lee Moore Touchstone|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=March 24, 2017}}</ref> His father, Sam F. Touchstone (1904-2002), a native of Clarke County, Mississippi, was a [[Taxidermy|taxidermist]] and inventor in Bossier City. He was affiliated with a half-dozen [[Baptist]] churches during his sixty-seven years as a professing [[Christianity|Christian]]. Like his son Ned, he is interred at Hill Crest Memorial Park in Haughton.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Touchstone&GSfn=Sam&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=99633398&df=all&|title=Sam F. Touchstone|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=March 24, 2017}}</ref>
Touchstone was married to the former June A. McGehee McGahee (born April 19, 1927– December 22, 2019), a the youngest of three children of Carlton McGahee, Sr., and the former Ora Bray, who died as June was being born. A native of Homer in Claiborne Parish who resides , she was an honor graduate of Homer High School and became a scholar of etymology and the classics. She was a former news editor of ''The Waskom Gazette'' and proofread the numerous published writings of her husband, Ned. She spent her later years in Shreveport and was a Republicansupporter of [[U. S. President]] [[Donald Trump]].<ref name=juneobit>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=june-touchstone&pid=194814179|title=June Touchstone|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=December 24, 2019}}</ref> The Touchstones have had a surviving son, David Mark Touchstone (born September 23, 1952), a business [[attorney]] in Shreveport-Bossier City and also a Republican;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/david-touchstone/e826621971708|title=David Touchstone|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=August 26, 2019}}</ref> two daughters, Lia Lauren Touchstone Tippit Webb (born c. 1955April 23, 1948) of Rockwall, TexasShreveport, and Lauren Lia Touchstone Webb Evans (born April 23, 19481955) of ShrevportRockwall, Texas.<ref name=obitjuneobit/>,
From 1981 until his death two decades later, Sam Touchstone operated the Touchstone Wildlife & Art Museum on U.S. Highway 80 in Haughton. The facility showcases taxidermist exhibits on two floors from floor to ceiling with specimens of animals from all over the world. After Sam Touchstone's death, his second wife, Lura Patrick Touchstone (born September 1931), of Bossier City and her daughter, Samantha Olson, continued to operate and expand the museum. The facility also contains artifacts of [[Native Americans]] and a section on the notorious outlaws [[Bonnie and Clyde]], who rampaged through [north North Louisiana to their deaths in 1934. In March 2017, Mrs. Touchstone, announced that the museum has fallen on difficult economic times with declining attendance, and the future of the facility remained doubtful. She noted that many schools no longer send children to the wildlife museum on field trips though the facility had been very popular with young people in the past.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://press-herald.com/haughton-museum-faces-closure/|title=Haughton museum faces closure|publisher=''Minden Press-Herald''|author=Amanda Simmons|accessdate=March 25, 2017}}</ref> As of the summer of Christmas 2019, the museum, which is rated highly among its patrons, was still operational.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/touchstonemuseum/|title=Touchstone Wildlife & Art Museum|publisher=[[Facebook]]|accessdate=August 24, 2019}}</ref>
Touchstone was a first cousin of former Louisiana state Senator Danny Roy Moore, a [[civil engineer]] and land surveyor who resides in Arcadia in Bienville Parish. Moore represented Claiborne and Bienville parishes for a single term from 1964 to 1968. Moore's mother, Capitola Touchstone Moore (1902–2002), a native of Perry County, Mississippi, and an older sister of Sam Touchstone, is interred at Arlington Cemetery in Homer, where she had lived for much of her life. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Moore&GSfn=Capitola&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=133990037&df=all&|title=Capitola Touchstone Moore|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=March 24, 2017}}</ref>