Esther Muncaster

Esther Muncaster, of Montgomery, Alabama, a former U.S. political prisoner known for her protests against the un-declared Vietnam War as well as the collective control via the United Nations succumbed to pancreatic cancer on Jan 12th, 1989. She was best known for her outgoing personality. She attended the school of Architecture at Berkley, California, left studies in her senior year of attendance where she met her future Husband, Robert George Muncaster who attended and graduated from U.C. Berkley.

She claimed to be an authority on the statutes, codes and Charters of the United Nations, Muncaster felt that the United Nations was an agency which was being used to corrupt the basic constitutional foundations of the United States. She also felt that the United Nations was controlling the Vietnam undeclared war, further that the U.S. military was subordinated to the United Nations. She also voiced opinions on local issues, especially the government-run (i.e. public) education system and was among the earliest to recognize its role in indoctrinating children.

Esther was well known for speaking out on the local Montgomery, AL radio talk shows, especially the popular "Don Markwell's Viewpoint" which first aired on WCOV and later on WQTY/WFMI.

Mrs. Muncaster was an architectural draftsman, married to an architect, Robert Muncaster. Her father, Walter Swindell Davis who graduated from MIT, was a famous architect with a practice in the Los Angeles area. Her son Charles is also an architect. Mrs. Muncaster was a self-taught expert in federal law as she was allowed by a Federal Judge to prepare her own brief challenging the constitutionality of the federal commitment statutes.

Mrs. Muncaster believed that the legal tender of the United States could only be gold or silver coins. Mr. Robert Muncaster (her husband ) and Charles Muncaster (her son) appeared on the CBS program The Reasoner Report discussing the gold and silver issues and the question of the Federal Reserve Bank issuing currency not backed by gold or silver.