Louis Ray Beam, Jr. (born 1946) is an American white supremacist, conspiracy theorist and neo-fascist.

After high school, he joined the United States Army and served as a helicopter door-gunner in Vietnam.

[3] Once he returned to the United States, he became a Klansman, leading a maritime[4] Louisiana KKK element and Klan rally in Texas against government help to Vietnamese immigrant fishermen.

[9] The Boy Scouts Council of Houston rejected a charter request from the troop at Camp Puller.

During the arrest, Beam's wife opened fire and critically injured a Mexican police officer.