I was reading about Mr. Heston on the wikipedia just now. He seems to be a tale of two cities kind of guy, in the sixties he was as liberal as they come , he was very active in the civil rights movement.   But then in the 80s it sounds like he became a completely different person, weird. Maybe he had an epiphany of sorts.  Heston in the 60's....   Political activism    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...March_1963.jpg    Charlton Heston (left) with  Marlon Brando ,  James Baldwin , and  Harry Belafonte  at Civil Rights March 1963        http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...March_1963.jpg     Sydney Poitier ,  Harry Belafonte  and Heston.       In his earlier years, Heston was a  liberal Democrat , campaigning for Presidential candidates  Adlai Stevenson  in 1956 and  John F. Kennedy  in 1960. A  civil rights  activist,  he accompanied  Martin Luther King Jr.  during the civil rights march held in  Washington, D.C.  in 1963, even going so far as to wear a sign that read  All Men Are Created Equal .  Heston later claimed it a point of pride that he helped in the civil rights cause long before Hollywood found it fashionable, as he often says in his speeches.       And...Heston in the 80's....  By the 1980s, however, Heston had begun to support more  conservative  positions on such issues as  affirmative action  and  gun rights  and changed his political affiliation from Democratic to Republican.  He controversially praised  David Duke .:clink    In 1996 Charlton Heston attended the  Conservative Political Action Conference , an annual gathering of conservative movement organizations. There he posed for a group photo that included  Gordon Lee Baum , the founder of the  Council of Conservative Citizens  (CCC) and former  White Citizens Council  organizer.:cool: