Nothing revealed the vicious hatred that the shooting evoked among those on the Right more vividly than a letter the Schroeders received in the weeks after their son Bill’s death: Mr. and Mrs. Schroeder, There’s nothing better than a dead, destructive, riot-making communist, and that’s what your son was, if not he would have stayed away like a good American would do. Now you know what a goody-goody son you had. They should all be shot, then we’d have a better U.S.A. to live in. Be thankful he is gone. Just another communist.
