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Typical of the California heisters was Lynne Kilpatrick Swisher, 18, who stuck up a Wells Fargo bank in San Francisco, got away with $456, but turned herself in a week later. She had used the money for a trip to Hawaii and told cops: "It was worth five years in jail to me. I've had a wonderful vacation, a real ball...
...JOHN KILPATRICK Westbrook, Conn...
Demagogic Fury. Kilpatrick did not always see racism as a dead-end crusade. A Southerner by birth (Oklahoma), education and temperament, he went straight from journalism school at the University of Missouri to a reporter's job on the News Leader. There, in the capital of the Confederacy, and on a paper dedicated to white supremacy, he soon distinguished himself as an implacable enemy of integration in any form. Made editor in 1951, Kilpatrick ran an editorial campaign that, in large measure, polarized Southern resistance to school integration...
Scarcely had the Supreme Court handed down its decision when Kilpatrick attacked it with demagogic fury. "These nine men," he wrote, "repudiated the Constitution, spit upon the Tenth Amendment,* and rewrote the fundamental law of this land to suit their own gauzy concepts of sociology. If it be said now that the South is flouting the law, let it be said to the high court: you taught us how." While ostensibly recoiling from violence ("ungentlemanly"), Kilpatrick seemed to be inciting it: "God give us men! We resist now or we resist never...
Hollow Victory. As one means of resistance, Kilpatrick proposed the decrepit doctrine of interposition, by which recalcitrant states attempt to block federal authority with their own. His 1955-56 editorial series on interposition has inspired segregationist leaders ever since-from Virginia's former Governor Almond to Mississippi's Ross Barnett. When interposition failed in Virginia, Kilpatrick had another suggestion: close the public schools. And as the state began to do just that, establishing private "academies" from which Negro pupils could be legally barred, Kilpatrick cheered. "Let it stay that way," he wrote, after a high school in Front...