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...SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.).*A profile of Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard Robert M. Shelton, presiding over two Klan rallies and discussing the history and objectives of the Klan...
...transplanted Floridian; Circuit Judge Thomas Werth Thagard, 63, a gently humorous man with a long and respected record of public service; the soft-spoken prosecutor, Circuit Solicitor Arthur E. Gamble Jr., 45; the melodramatic defense attorney, Matt H. Murphy Jr., 51, self-described "Imperial Klonsel" of the Ku Klux Klan; the defendant himself, a bored auto mechanic, potbellied despite his youth; Robert Shelton, Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, who sat at the defense table providing moral support and advice until the judge requested him to take a seat elsewhere; and the two key prosecution witnesses-Negro Leroy...
Star Witness Rowe, who had been an FBI informant in the Klan for more than five years-during which the FBI paid him a total of $9,000-told a story that for sheer throat-gripping drama could scarcely be equaled except in fiction...
...ministerial tones, Murphy then recited the Klan oath: " 'I most solemnly swear that I will forever keep sacredly secret the songs, words and grip . . . regarding which a most rigid secrecy must be maintained ... I will never yield to bribe, flattery, threats, passion, punishment, persecution, persuasion, nor any other enticements whatever coming from or offered by any person or persons, male or female, for the purpose of obtaining from me a secret or secret information. I will die rather than divulge them, so help me God.' Did you swear to that oath...
...sight of a white and a Negro sitting together in the same car. Such scenes, he said, are common in Lowndes County, where white people drive home their Negro maids, handymen and cooks. "If that's grounds for murder, blood can flow in Lowndes County." The Klan, he said, had killed a defenseless woman. "Is that the kind of bravery we fought for? I'd say not." Gantt concluded by invoking the name of Alabama's Governor, who is all but worshiped in Lowndes County-"one of the greatest segregationists, George Corley Wallace. He said this...