Word: klan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Singer Paula Wayne, the show's love interest. "Let them go," says Davis. "With all the talk and all the taunts, I've done 30 TV specials and never been knocked off a single network affiliate in the South, and I'm No. 2 on the Klan's list-right after Martin Luther King. I'm not worried...
Dragons Jones and Kornegay were not much better off. Jones was accused of using Klan funds to buy a Cadillac and a station wagon, making personal use of a fund raised for a Klansman indicted in a bombing, and pocketing outrageous profits on sales of satin Klan robes-without turning in a corporate-tax return. Kornegay, it appeared, had been forced to flee to Virginia from North Carolina, where, as lecturer for the Klan, he had set up an insurance company, sold policies to Klansmen, then failed to reimburse them when the company was disbanded...
Achilles' Heel. While such activities were not classifiably unAmerican, the Congressmen's well-documented attack on the Klan surprised many critics of the committee, which heretofore has focused its investigative zeal on left-wing groups. Its hostility to Klan witnesses was all the more noteworthy because the committee is dominated by Southerners and Republicans-seven of whom voted against House passage of the 1964 Civil Rights...
Though the House committee's strategy was to hit first at what Georgia Democrat Charles Weltner called the Klan's "Achilles' heel"-its murky financial practices-there were hints that in coming weeks it would also be looking into the more lurid aspects of K.K.K. imperialism. Dragon Jones was questioned in vain about cross burnings and racist handbills that have been distributed in North Carolina. Kornegay took refuge in the familiar four amendments when confronted with a newspaper story quoting him as advocating "mass killings in Selma...
Nevertheless, as tangible evidence of the Klan's retaliatory zeal, the committee displayed a White Knights of Mississippi pamphlet that catalogues forms of harassment to be used on suspected foes. Among other tactics, it recommends pouring sugar into gasoline tanks, dumping snakes, dead rats or decapitated chickens into mailboxes. To "obscure the deadly seriousness of our work," the circular suggested, the Knights should refer to such ploys as "Halloween pranks"-enough, in Klan verbiage, to make any night Dark Day in Weird Week of Month Sorrowful...