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Racist John Kasper, of New Jersey, though attracting only small crowds, was in town to stir up as much mischief as he could. Parents of six of the 13 Negro children got threatening phone calls. One caller told a mother that her six-year-old daughter would be strung up by her toes. Someone told another mother that acid would be hurled at her son. Said a woman who identified herself as a "Ku Kluxer": "You'd better not send your child to a white school, because we'll beat her to death and bomb your house...
...fireball was thrown, burning, on his front porch. Having passed safely through registration day, Nashville is now braced for anything. Says Superintendent Bass: "Our board members are shaking in their boots. There's all sorts of submerged opposition to this." Added a Negro lawyer: "With a lunatic like Kasper around, anything can happen...
...Interloper. The trial, before an all-white jury (ten men, two women) in Judge Taylor's federal court in Knoxville, was remarkable as much for its cast of characters as its issue. Long-legged Frederick John Kasper, 27, was the headline defendant, a preening cock in his moment of glory. Kasper ran a bookshop in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in 1953. A screwball without a cause, he seemed then to be a friend to Negroes, permitted solicitation of N.A.A.C.P. contributions in his shop, frequented interracial dances, kept company with a Negro girl. Yet after he bolted to Washington...
...real sense. Kasper stood alone, abhorred by his fellow defendants, who had rounded up no fewer than eleven lawyers to represent them. As the trial droned on for twelve days, the defense attorneys did little more than rise to object or make wordy points of law, or try to inflame segregationist feelings in the jury. One defense attorney, Ross Barnett, informed the jury that Mississippi's Senator James Eastland had instructed him to "tell that jury what's happened in Washington." Eastland's news: 874 public-school children in Washington. D.C. "have loathsome and contagious diseases...
...hours and ten minutes later, the jury returned to the court. The verdict: Kasper and six others, guilty. And, as if to prove that it weighed evidence and not passions, the jury acquitted the remaining four defendants. "We tried our best to come up with a just verdict," said the foreman of the jury later. "We discussed the case thoroughly before taking a ballot. We weighed the evidence carefully against the points of law as outlined by the judge. We tried to avoid being influenced by any side issues...