Word: klan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Significant Difference. The prosecution's case was much stronger than in the Anniston trial. It was the already-familiar story told in damning detail by Gary Thomas Rowe, an FBI informant planted in the Ku Klux Klan, who testified that he rode with the killers when they gunned down Mrs. Liuzzo. Despite his first-hand testimony, juries in two state trials had failed to convict Collie LeRoy Wilkins, 22, on murder charges. The significant difference in federal court last week was that Wilkins and two fellow Klansmen, Eugene Thomas, 42, and William Orville Eaton, 41, were prosecuted under...
Another stinging setback for the Grand Knights came from the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, which severely enjoined Klan members from interfering with the civil rights of Negroes in Louisiana's Washington Parish, whose biggest town is strife-torn Bogalusa (pop. 23,000). In a decision that may deter Klan mischief more effectively than any number of congressional investigations, Judge John Minor Wisdom warned Klan toughs all over the South that they face effective federal intervention at the smallest interference with Negroes' rights, can no longer use economic coercion and threats of violence...
...Klan intimidation earlier this year forced cancellation of a speech on racial peace by former Little Rock Congressman Brooks Hays and subsequently prevented Negroes from holding civil rights demonstrations. Judge Wisdom left no doubt as to his own opinions of the Klan, branded defendant Klansmen as "ignorant bullies, callous of the harm they know they are doing and lacking in sufficient understanding to comprehend the chasm between their own twisted Konstitution and the noble charter of liberties under law that is the American Constitution...
...convictions in Alabama, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach telephoned the news to Lyndon Johnson at his Texas ranch. The President had taken a special interest in the case and had even announced on television the trio's arrest the day after Mrs. Liuzzo died. He warned the Ku Klux Klan then that he would bring it to heel. After talking to Katzenbach, Johnson said: "The whole nation can take heart from the fact that there are those in the South who believe in justice in racial matters and are determined not to stand for acts of violence and terror...
Last week 3,500 delegates of the North Carolina Baptist Convention condemned the Ku Klux Klan and its "perverted use of the Christian Cross." The week before, the Baptists of Virginia passed a resolution acknowledging "before God our partnership of guilt in the long, dark night of injustice and discrimination," and resolved that all Virginia Baptist congregations be encouraged to organize local Christian Life Commissions...