Word: eldon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Eldon Lee Edwards, 51, by day an auto-body paint sprayer, by night Imperial Wizard of the self-styled only "true" latter-day Ku Klux Klan, an Atlanta-based organization claiming membership in nine states and believed to be the biggest (an estimated 50,000 "knights") of several Klans still operating; of a heart attack; in College Park...
...gift of perseverance." To one, he wrote with characteristic diffidence, "I gather this kind of cancer doesn't mean suffering in any acute form-I expect I'm not worthy of it." His last three days were spent in a coma. Once he roused, and a Lady Eldon at his bedside asked if he would like her to read to him from "his" New Testament. He replied with a faint but distinct "No"; then after a long pause there came from the deathbed, just audibly, "Awfully jolly of you to suggest it, though." They were his last words...