James Edward O’Keefe III is a well-known American political activist and provocateur who founded Project Veritas, a far-right activist group that uses deceptive editing techniques to attack mainstream media organizations and progressive groups.
James O’Keefe first gained national attention for his selectively edited video recordings of workers at Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) offices in 2009, his arrest and misdemeanor guilty plea in 2010 for entering the federal office of then-U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) under false pretenses, and the release of misleading videos of conversations with two high-ranking, now former, NPR executives in 2011.
Where did James O’Keefe go to high school and college?
James O’Keefe has had an interesting education background, he attended Westwood High School, where he started showing early signs in arts, theater and journalism.
Right after graduation, O’Keefe started the next stage of his life at Rutgers University in 2002 and majored in philosophy. At the beginning of his sophomore year, he wrote a bi-weekly opinion column for The Daily Targum, the university’s student paper but he left the Targum and founded the Rutgers Centurion, a conservative student paper supported by a $500 “Balance in the Media” grant from The Leadership Institute.
