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...Morale was further jolted by the testimony last week of a former FBI informer. Appearing before the Senate committee wearing a cloth mask to preserve a new identity adopted for self-protection, an informer once known as Gary Rowe Jr. testified that he had infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan for the FBI in the early 1960s. He said he was told to do everything possible to sow dissension within the Klan. Rowe said of Klan families: "I was told to sleep with as many wives as I could, to break up marriages." (He slept with some.) He claimed that...
...Actress Candice Bergen, 29, described her newest role, that of photojournalist on NBC's early morning Today Show. Starting in January, Bergen will appear once a week to display her photographs and provide accompanying commentary on subjects ranging from rodeos and aging to feminism and the Ku Klux Klan. "I don't call myself a seasoned journalist, but I've been taking pictures since I was 19," said Candy, a touch defiantly...
...picketers shouted such slogans as "Palladino, Nazi, Ku Klux Klan, Smash the racist scum of the land...
HALL was born in 1871 to a Presbyterian minister who seems also to have been an ardent member of the Ku Klux Klan, and when he arrived in New Orleans, a friend of his later remembered, he was "the handsomest young man in all New Orleans...the best dressed man, who set the fashion for the male population...the perfect Southern gentleman." At around that time, he worked full-time in an administrative post called adjutant general for the United Confederate Veterans, an organization that had a hard time extracting from the Civil War anything worthy of nostagia. It groped...
...fascinated by the Ku Klux Klan, an odd fascination because the Klan's political philosophy was based on the crudest sort of racial hatred and Hall himself was for his day an extreme integrationist. He read other things into the Klan, though, none of them things the Klan particularly had--rebellion, pride, struggle against oppression. In a poem in Rebellion, he wrote of the Klansmen...