- Served in the U.S. Navy during WW2 as a pilot.
- Worked as an illustrator, cartoonist and photographer, talents he used as a propagandist for his political cause.
- Was interviewed for "Playboy" Magazine (April 1966) by Alex Haley, a black man. Rockwell consented to the interview on the condition that the interviewer not be Jewish. Part of the interview was dramatized, with Marlon Brando playing Rockwell, in Roots: The Next Generations (1979).
- He ran for public office twice and lost by large margins each time. In 1964 he ran as a write-in candidate in the U.S. Presidential election, receiving 212 votes. In 1965 he ran for Governor of Virginia as an independent candidate, finishing fourth out of four candidates, with a total of 5,730 votes (1.02% of all votes cast).
- Was shot and killed outside a coin-operated laundromat in Arlington, VA, by John Patler, the editor and illustrator for the party's newsletter, "The Stormtrooper". Rockwell himself expelled Patler from the party after he was accused of "Bolshevik leanings" and inserting Marxist propaganda into the party's newsletter.
- Coined the phrase "White Power" shortly after Stokely Carmichael came up with "Black Power".
- The location Rockwell established as the headquarters of his American Nazi Party was at 928 N. Randolph St. in the Ballston district of Arlington, VA. It is now the site of an office building and hotel complex. The last location of the party's headquarters in Arlington after Rockwell's death was 2507 N. Franklin Rd., now the site of "The Java Shack", a coffee shop serving a racially diverse community.
- Despite his service in the US Navy as a pilot, he was denied burial in Arlington National Cemetery because his followers refused to remove their swastika armbands during the internment ceremony and insisted on having a Nazi flag draped over his coffin.
- Son of vaudeville comic George 'Doc' Rockwell. His son's promotion of anti-Semitic ideology brought great embarrassment to the family, since many of "Doc" Rockwell's fellow performers were Jewish.
- When the "Freedom Riders" were holding sit-down demonstrations to desegregate bus stations in the Deep South, Rockwell obtained a Volkswagen van for the American Nazi Party, personally painted it with swastikas and white supremacist slogans and dubbed it the "Hate Bus". He frequently rode in it to speaking engagements and party rallies (the van was later repossessed after he defaulted on a loan). Later the "hippies" (whom Rockwell openly despised) would adopt the Volkswagen van as the "Love Bus", decorating them with peace signs, anti-war slogans and psychedelic designs.
- He established the American Nazi Party "Stormtrooper Barracks" in a two-story house at 6150 Wilson Blvd. in the Dominion Hills district of Arlington, VA. The house has since been razed and the property has been incorporated into the Upton Hill Regional Park. The site of the building is now a pavilion of picnic tables.
- As of January 2010 his ashes are interred in the memorial room at the headquarters of The New Order in New Berlin, WI.
- After his 1966 "Playboy" interview was published he became one of the most popular speakers on the American college lecture circuit. By 1967 he was making as much as $2000 a week.
- Had a series of portrait photographs taken by Presidential portrait experts Harris & Ewing.
- Worked as an illustrator, cartoonist, sign painter and photographer; talents he used as a propagandist for his political cause.
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