Word: klan
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...Klan's past record suggests otherwise. But in accepting this more irksome instance of free speech, Jasper can take strength from its numbers. More than 500 attended Byrd's funeral; so far, only 20 Klansmen plan to show...
...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 Klan of Mississippi...
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...
Samuel Holloway Bowers is a Klan leader right out of central casting. One of his grandfathers was a wealthy Louisiana planter; another was Eaton J. Bowers, a Mississippi Congressman from 1903 to 1911. But as Imperial Wizard of the Klan in Mississippi, Bowers compiled an unequaled record of murder and mayhem. Klan experts suspect him of orchestrating more than 300 bombings, assaults and arsons, plus nine murders. He served six years in prison for conspiracy in connection with the deaths of Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney, the civil rights workers whose killings were depicted in the movie Mississippi...
Neil McMillen, a history professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, believes that a Klan "die-hard" or two could still make it on the jury and produce another mistrial. But this time, notably, it is the Dahmers and their supporters who seem to have the most faith in the system. "I think the jury is going to work out just fine," says Fairley, the friend who warned Dahmer that registering blacks to vote could get him killed. "Things are a lot different now in Hattiesburg...