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EXTREMISM. "I seek the support of no extremist-of the left or the right. We repudiate character assassins, vigilantes, Communists and any group such as the Ku Klux Klan that seeks to impose its views through terror or threat or violence...
...years, Cushing was in many ways conservative and narrow. In 1948 he denounced what he said was a conspiracy of "birth controllers, abortionists and mercy killers," and in 1949 he attacked Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State as "a refined form of the Ku Klux Klan." He fought with Harvard's former President James Bryant Conant when Conant suggested that parochial and other independent schools are divisive, and he deplored secular universities. "There are too many instances where Catholic students have lost their faith and Americanism at these institutions," he roared...
...agents who moved swiftly into the case, the utter senselessness of such a murder was in itself an important clue. They did not have to dig far to discover that Athens is a center of activities for one of the most senseless organizations imaginable: the Ku Klux Klan. Sure enough, a little more detective work led them to one James Lackey, 28, an Athens gas station attendant. According to U.S. authorities, Lackey confessed that he was in on the ambush and implicated three fellow Klansmen-Garage Owner Herbert Guest, 37, a short, fat gun fancier; textile Yarn Plucker Cecil Myers...
...issue of enforce ment, the plaintiffs sought an injunction against the owners' alleged coercers - a troop of white toughs headed by Holsted ("Hoss") Manucy, a convicted moonshiner of Majorcan descent. Manucy, who runs something called the Ancient City Hunting Club, denies membership in the Ku Klux Klan but calls it "a wonderful organization...
Nationwide polls showed Barry Goldwater trailing Lyndon Johnson by nearly 2 to 1. Bitter Republican moderates continued to shy away from Goldwater's candidacy. Civil rights leaders denounced him and the Ku Klux Klan endorsed him. Reinhold Niebuhr's Protestant magazine, Christianity and Crisis, concluded that Barry's views were "diametrically opposed" to the stand of the three major U.S. faiths on questions of international relations, civil rights and economic policy. And Chicago's Second City satirists were breaking up audiences with the gag: "Question: What's the latest elephant joke? Answer: Barry Goldwater...