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...drifter, working at various times in a dairy, in a novelty store, behind a bar, as an ambulance driver, and in a meat-packing plant, where he froze several toes. To Birmingham cops, he was a sometime squealer in bootleg cases. And to his fellow Ku Klux Klansmen, he was a colleague who liked to talk-without ever getting very specific-about all the Negroes he had beaten...
...Angeles National Forest with a blast from a German-made, 20-mm. antitank gun that they had bought from a Culver City firm for $150. And last September, the FBI seized four Russian-army Tokarev semi-automatic rifles that had been shipped to members of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi...
...former senator from North Carolina, and former president of the University of North Carolina, Graham endorsed a Congressional investigation into the Ku Klux Klan. He warned, however, that this not be conducted by the Committee on Un-American Activities. "We want to be sure that the investigation doesn't turn into a witch hunt which will be turned against leaders of the civil rights movement," he said...
...have yet to hear a protest by the traditionally liberal voices against the idea of a House Un-American Activities Committee investigation of the Ku Klux Klan. But the use of the legislative power of investigation in the service of "exposure for the sake of exposure" will be no less abhorrent to the principles of a free society when it is directed against the Klan than when it is directed against Communists. Laws forbidding mere membership in the Klan will no more serve the cause of freedom than do the Smith Act and the Subversive Activities Control Act. And since...
...Mentality. No longer a monolithic organization, the Klan today consists of several ragtag independent groups, the best known of which is the United Klans of America, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc., headquartered in Tuscaloosa, Ala., with an ex-tire salesman named Robert Shelton as its Imperial Wizard. Estimates of Klan strength range from 10,000 to 40,000 members, many of whom for some peculiar reason seem to be rural service-station attendants. Most members, in any case, are deluded rednecks whose only skill is sharpshooting. That the FBI has infiltrated deeply into their ranks is indicated...