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Reading the book, one must keep in mind that we are all products of the very culture Gabler describes. Alongside the frightening examples are everyday occurrences that stem from the very same attitudes. It's scary to see a bit of Jeffrey Dahmer or Monica Lewinsky in yourself...
...DEATH OF VERNON DAHMER...
...Wizard" brought back vivid memories of my experience in Laurel, Miss., in early 1966 [LAW, May 18]. I was an FBI special agent who had been sent to Laurel along with numerous other agents. We were involved in the investigation of the fire-bombing murder of Vernon Dahmer by the Ku Klux Klan. Klan leader Sam Bowers would often sit across the street from the Laurel FBI office in his souped-up 1940 black Ford. He usually was with another Klansman. They were "surveilling" us, the FBI. Bowers' Klan organization was known as the White Knights of the Ku Klux...
...while visiting my uncle, the Rev. Ellis Alford, in Hattiesburg, Miss., I met Vernon Dahmer Sr., who with my uncle and others, including some whites, was planning the strategy to elect a white woman as insurance commissioner. Dahmer was an impressive, deliberate man who was very easy to talk with. In late 1965 at March Air Force Base in California, I met his son Vernon Jr., who was characteristically like his father. The death of his father the following January made quite a stir. In 1966, you see, Riverside County, Calif., had much in common with Forest County, Miss...
ARRESTED. SAM BOWERS, 73, former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard and subject of a May 18 TIME special investigation, along with two other alleged ex-Klansmen; charged with the 1966 firebomb murder of civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer Sr.; in Hattiesburg, Miss...