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...friend and attentive reader, then-Attorney General Richmond Flowers, was out of office. (Flowers was interviewing a job applicant last year when his executive assistant recalled seeing the name in the Courier; he dug out the story--a series of chats with friends of Ku Klux Klan Wizard Robert Shelton--showed it to Flowers, and the interview ended abruptly.) A number of federal and state judges and other officials continue to subscribe (Alabama has two subscriptions--one for the state archives, the other for the anti-poverty office), but few are as avid followers of it as was Flowers...
...once honorable profession of wizardry, which has declined in prestige ever since Merlin succumbed to the Lady of the Lake, may have been permanently discredited some 14 centuries later by the combination of television and Robert M. Shelton Jr. Though impeccably accredited as Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, Shelton, 37, a semiliterate, ferret-faced Alabaman, failed so completely last year to cast a spell on either the TV audience or the House Un-American Activities Com mittee that he was widely tuned out by the former and charged by the latter with contempt of Congress. Specifically...
Last week in Washington's Federal District Court, Shelton was found guilty on the contempt charge by a jury composed of nine whites and three Negroes. The diminished wiz now plans an appeal based on the First, Fifth and 14th Amendments-"same ones the nigras been using...
...investigation adduced very little information about the Klan unknown to the Justice Department. Nor did it lead to any convictions or indictments, though Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton, four grand dragons, a kludd and a kladd were cited for contempt of Congress. Yet the inquiry served a useful purpose, if only by giving an opportunity to a sorry klutch of knackers, knarks and Knipperdollings* to document for themselves that "the invisible empire" is moved as much by dollar lust as by racial hatred...
...professors felt, Howe said, that the activities of HUAC were so objectionable that even the seven Ku Klux Klansmen cited for contempt by Congress last week should not have to submit to what he called "Congressional harassment." Robert M. Shelton, the Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, Inc., and six of his associates had refused to answer questions on the activities of the Klan...