Word: hockett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even before Kasper entered Florida in early March, his cohorts were at work. Fred B. Hockett, a White Citizens Council Organizer in Miami, had been arrested and fined for cross-burning. Moreover, testimony was offered to the effect that Hockett possessed 100 boxes of dynamite, to be exploded at Kasper's orders...
When Kasper himself came to Miami for Hockett's trial and two segregationist rallies, he announced his intention of forming a white youth organization as a subsidiary to the Citizens Councils. Four days after his arrival, he was in Tallahassee, the state capital, to testify before a committee investigating anti-Negro activity in the state...
Immediately following his testimony, Kasper was denounced by Hockett and the officials of the K.K.K. in Florida. He was last heard of in Wetumpka, Alabama, where the White Citizens Council had forbidden him to speak...
...Breath of Scandal. In Sumas, Wash., after Border Patrolmen Ralph Johnson and Verdun Hockett found 10 Ibs. of garlic cloves in a pack being carried by Raymond Driscoll, 18, of British Columbia, Driscoll explained: "I want to go to California to find some friends; no one in Canada likes me because I like garlic...