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...issue of the United Auto Workers' weekly tabloid Solidarity last month was a provocative four-page insert calculated to catch the eye of each of its estimated 5,000,000 readers. Its cover page was alive with a drawing of a sheet-hooded, club-carrying Ku Klux Klanner standing menacingly next to the Statue of Liberty. Caption: WHICH Do You CHOOSE? LIBERTY or BIGOTRY. Printed inside was the full text of the rousing speech by U.A.W.-endorsed Jack Kennedy to Protestant ministers in Houston...
Obstacle? With those two basic positions stated, the rest of the debate turned on restatements of old positions. Kennedy tossed a low blow by recalling that Grand Dragon William J. Griffin of the Ku Klux Klan had indicated that he was going to vote for Nixon ("I do not suggest in any way that that indicates that Mr. Nixon has the slightest sympathy or involvement . . .") Nixon hedged on answers to questions on nuclear disarmament and control and labor policy by announcing that he would shortly deliver major speeches on these topics...
...Richard Nixon the week's least welcome endorsement came from Tampa Private Eye William J. Griffin, Grand Dragon of the Florida Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...
...nearby cracker towns in south Georgia than to cosmopolitan southern Florida, and seems to have reverted to type. Its newest school was named after Civil War General Nathan Bedford Forrest, and even the kids knew that "Fustest with the mostest" Forrest was one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan. Mayor Haydon Burns is a 48-year-old segregationist with his eye on the Governor's chair and a shuddering distaste for doing anything to promote racial amity. Police Chief Luther Reynolds is a 62-year-old, greying Andy Gump, a man who "does not believe Jacksonville...
...fringe tract mailed from Aurora, Mo. The following year, a congressional committee investigating unfair election practices condemned the oath as a fabrication. At that time, the false oath was read into the Congressional Record, a fact that present-day bigots cite to lend it an air of authenticity. Ku Klux Klanners circulated it against Al Smith in 1928. It turned up again last spring during the West Virginia primary battle between Jack Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey. A scattering of clergymen have recently quoted it in sermons, and it has been printed in newsletters of Southern Baptist churches in Rainelle...