Ted Turner Was Allegedly Kicked Out of College for Painting Hate Symbols on Jewish Students’ Doors

Media mogul Ted Turner — who died at age 87 on May 6 — was booted out of college for painting swastikas on Jewish students’ doors, Globe has learned.

Known as The Mouth of the South for his outspokenness, the CNN founder made public enemies over the years for taking wild potshots at Jews and religion.

Porter Bibb, author of the biography Ted Turner: It Ain’t As Easy As It Looks, reported how the future billionaire taunted Jews in college.

According to Bibb, who died in 2025, Turner got thrown out of Brown University for painting swastikas on the dorm room doors of Jewish students.

Turner also wore a Ku Klux Klan mask and robe, although he wasn’t anti-Black, Bibb said.

Reporter Neal Travis witnessed skilled yachtsman Turner’s bad taste while covering the America’s Cup sailing races decades ago.

“Turner was a total embarrassment to the yachting establishment with his crude anti-Jewish jokes,” said Travis, who died in 2002.

“They offered to drag him out of post-race press conferences for fear of what he would say.”

In the late ’80s and early ’90s, Turner called Christianity “a religion for losers” and the Ten Commandments outdated.

In response to outrage over his comments, Turner turned the services at the First Baptist Church of Woodstock, Ga., into a media event where he apologized to the congregation.

Months after the September 11 attacks, Turner was reviled for telling an audience at Brown University that the 19 terrorists responsible “were very brave at the least.”

In yet another disgusting attack of foot-in-mouth disease, Turner told a reporter for London’s Guardian newspaper: “Right now aren’t the Israelis and the Palestinians both terrorizing each other?

“The Palestinians are fighting with suicide bombers. The Israelis … they’ve got one of the most powerful military machines in the world. So both sides are involved in terrorism.”

The interview hit newsstands the same day 20 people in Israel died in a Palestinian suicide bombing. Turner backpedaled ASAP, saying in a prepared statement: “I regret any implication that I believe the actions taken by Israel to protect its people are equal to terrorism.”