Word: klansman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this year, the Justice Department has recorded 44 Klan-related incidents, compared with eight in all of 1978. They included cross burnings, beatings and firebombings. A Klansman was convicted of whipping a white woman from Sylacauga, Ala., who he thought was dating a black man. In Birmingham, Klansmen were convicted of shooting at the houses of two black civil rights leaders...
...Photographer Don Davis: "One guy laid across the back end of the car and blew the side of a guy's head off." Clair Burton, her face caked with blood, told how a woman died in her arms. Said Burton: "The first thing that happened, I saw this Klansman waving his gun. The next thing we knew, there was shooting all over the place." According to eyewitnesses, some of the demonstrators fired back at the Klansmen with handguns...
...clothes. Imperial Wizard Bill Wilkinson, a stocky little man from Denham Springs, La., has arrived in his long gray Chrysler. He likes to tell people it once belonged to President Nixon, and he usually adds regretfully that it is not bulletproof. A shotgun leans against the front seat. Boasts Klansman Gene West of San Antonio: "We've got a whole arsenal of guns here today, all of them concealed...
Finally, 50 robed Klansmen set out for the courthouse, just as the United League is leaving it. Only a few minutes separate them, but it is enough to avoid a confrontation. "It's damned hot in here," one Klansman admits from under his hood. Many marching Klansmen are swinging clubs, and some are carrying Instamatics and snapping pictures of the people, black and white together, packed three deep on the sidewalks. The jewelry store down the street suddenly closes up as the Klansmen approach...
...Richard Burton-Elizabeth Taylor romance is over, but the bills for damages are still coming in. Robert and Antonia Henning, who rented Dick and Liz their Chico, Calif., house for six weeks last spring while Burton filmed The Klansman, are now suing for almost $3,000, alleging that carpets, bedspreads and mattresses must be replaced. This is not the only moment past to haunt Burton. Just before he proposed to Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, he gave an English magazine a handwritten advertisement for a woman under 38 to bear him a child for a fee. Explained the actor: "The sound...