# Ted Cruz's Story About Jesse Helms & John Wayne

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruzs-story-about-jesse-helms-john-wayne/668751>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 13, 2013, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruzs-story-about-jesse-helms-john-wayne/668751 "2013-09-13T05:46:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruzs-story-about-jesse-helms-john-wayne/668751/14 "2013-09-18T15:01:28Z")

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> [@SeaCanary](#):
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> ETA: For the record, to my knowledge Cruz never referred to Helms as an unapologetic racist and a segregationist.

**Moderator Note**

If that was the case, then you’ve pretty much poisoned the well with regard to getting a straight GQ answer by including this statement in your OP. Let’s move this to Great Debates.

Colibri  
General Questions Moderator

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