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Robert Shelton, the sallow-faced Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, seemed to have lost his tongue last October when the House Un-American Activities Committee began holding hearings on the Ku Klux Klan. In the two days that he slouched in the witness chair, he "respectably declined" to answer any questions of substance, taking the First, Fourth, Fifth and 14th Amendments 158 times. Most insistent were his refusals to produce Klan financial records, despite Chairman Edwin Willis' warning that his intransigence could bring him a citation for contempt of Congress...
...committeemen would say so-at first. Then Birch Publicist John Rousselot crowed in San Marino, Calif., that it was "wise of the Republican Party to make clear that it doesn't seem to be influenced by extremist groups, such as the Communist Party or the Ku Klux Klan." At which, Wisconsin Representative Melvin Laird told his colleagues: "Let's quit monkeying around. No more hedging, damn it. The answer is yes." And so, by the end of the day, committee members were once again reading out the Birchers...
...renovate Los Angeles' downtown plaza stalled for three years, the magazine Los Angeles got it going again with an all-out assault on city and state agencies that were holding it up. Even Atlanta, which remains a Chamber of Commerce publication, has run pieces debunking the Ku Klux Klan and questioning the city's cultural pretensions...
Significant Difference. The prosecution's case was much stronger than in the Anniston trial. It was the already-familiar story told in damning detail by Gary Thomas Rowe, an FBI informant planted in the Ku Klux Klan, who testified that he rode with the killers when they gunned down Mrs. Liuzzo. Despite his first-hand testimony, juries in two state trials had failed to convict Collie LeRoy Wilkins, 22, on murder charges. The significant difference in federal court last week was that Wilkins and two fellow Klansmen, Eugene Thomas, 42, and William Orville Eaton, 41, were prosecuted under...
...conspiracy convictions in Alabama, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach telephoned the news to Lyndon Johnson at his Texas ranch. The President had taken a special interest in the case and had even announced on television the trio's arrest the day after Mrs. Liuzzo died. He warned the Ku Klux Klan then that he would bring it to heel. After talking to Katzenbach, Johnson said: "The whole nation can take heart from the fact that there are those in the South who believe in justice in racial matters and are determined not to stand for acts of violence and terror...