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...sore part of American history that we would like to heal," said Joseph Lewis, FBI special agent in charge in Birmingham. "We feel we have an opportunity to do so this time and we want to take one last shot at it." Since the 1963 attack, only one person, Ku Klux Klansman Robert Edward Chambliss, has been convicted. The FBI believes at least three other men were involved in the blast, which took the lives of an 11-year-old girl and three 14-year-old girls...
...further denied the allegation that he had ever supported the candidacy or the positions of David Duke, a politician and former Ku Klux Klan leader...
Last Friday at 12:10 a.m., it was Henry Francis Hays' turn to die. His execution was cause for some self-congratulation in Alabama because, unlike most of those who have been put to death before him, Hays is white. What's more, he is the son of a Ku Klux Klan leader who, the prosecution said, ordered him to lynch a black as a "show of strength" in 1981, after a jury failed to convict a black man accused of killing a white police officer. Hays and a friend snatched 19-year-old Michael Donald off a Mobile street...
More than 10 people picketed in front of the Science Center in an effort to publicize the upcoming trial of three men charged with assault and battery during a Chicago anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in June...
...June 29, 1996 in Chicago's Daley Plaza, thugs from the Arkansas "Knights of the Ku Klux Klan," armed with bolt-studded shields and heavy flagpoles wielded as lances, marched provocatively towards the demonstration of over 100 anti-fascist protesters. After the protesters successfully defended themselves and stopped these lynch-rope terrorists, the Chicago police intervened to return the Klan's weapons to them and then turned to exact revenge against the anti-Klan terrorists...