Fields was doubly unfortunate, because not only was he a wrongthinker while being White in the wrong place at the wrong time, he also had his moment before the zeitgeist really understood what we're dealing with in terms of modern day shitlibbery. At the time, people just took the story at face value and didn't really give a shit. If it happened today, things would be at least more covered, even if the outcome might be the same.