You Say You Was A Revolution



As mentioned in the Introduction, I had initially focused on sermons that Wesley Swift delivered in 1968. I wound up going back to check out those he gave during the Kennedy Administration, but I was only able to skim through sermons delivered in later 1964 through 1966. Before continuing with the presentation of sermons, this seems a good time for a brief interlude to present some extra material of that middle period (when there was a good deal of national exposure of problems posed by the Far Right). That will also serve as a conclusion to issues involving the Kennedy Administration and the death of the president.



1.

There is a handwritten note [p. 40] to New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison from one of his investigators which refers to the California Attorney General's 1965 report on paramilitary groups in the state, and to a recently-conducted interview.
The Minuteman Boxley & I interviewed in Lancaster is close to Rev. Swift, who also is now in Lancaster. [Dr. Stanley L.] Drennan is NSRP [National State's Rights Party], according to the report in Vol. 26 [of the Warren Commission supporting documents]. The NSRP [triple underlined] is the bridge, perhaps, between the Miami tapes & the neo-Facist [sic] element in North Hollywood.

Going from memory, "the Miami tapes" likely refers to taped conversations in which Joseph Milteer talked about plans to assassinate President Kennedy. Dr. Stanley Drennan (lately of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) had allegedly approached Capt. Robert K. Brown about his desire to get rid of a good many people, starting with President Kennedy and his entire Cabinet. And the interviewed Minuteman was most likely Dennis Mower. On the same note, in smaller and different handwriting among the margins of the original, there is some more detailed comment regarding the issues.
Drennan was investigated in the Summer of '63 by the Secret Service with regard to possible plans to assassinate the President. After the President was assassinated, however, he was not contacted.

There is also a specific reference in the W/R [Warren Report] to a warning from a member of the NSRP on Nov 13, 1963 that plans were afoot to assassinate the President. This is printed without comment.

Below this marginalia is a line to separate the preceding from the writer's addition to the original, which would read
....the Miami tapes & the neo-Facist element in North Hollywood.     & the Masferrer-Batista crowd (Carlos Bringuier, Sergio Arcacha Smith & -- most certainly -- the baby-[facer?] with the scar on his brow). (But Dean Andrews would know [double underlined] so why would we speculate?)

Dr. Drennan is closely connected with Edgar Eugene Bradley (who is literally feared by the John Birchers & the Minutemen because they have him cased as a 14-carat Nazi). Bradley is CIA, apparently high-level, in the Van Nuys area (The daily U-2 departures from the Van Nuys airport are an open secret. Bradley is well known there). Bradley is very close to Gen. Walker & stays at his house on Dallas visits (at time of assassination, however, he stayed at hotel near Dealey Plaza). Bradley has openly [rest of note copy covered over at bottom-dwd]

This note raises several issues, and there are numerous people better able to address them than me. But going from what I recall, I assume this may be the type of thing that drew the negative attention of Harold Weisberg and Vincent Salandria toward the pseudonymous Bill Boxley? (Boxley was not the writer of the original part of the note, but could well have been the writer of the marginalia.)

In any event, there's an issue with the credibility of the claim against Drennan, as it was not a claimed solicitation for eliminating the president alone but the elimination of a whole bunch of people. There's an issue with the credibility of the claim that members of the John Birch Society, and especially Minutemen, "literally feared" Edgar E. Bradley due to his being "cased as a 14-carat Nazi." They must have gone in "literal fear" much of the time then, given their association with and allegiances to numerous others who would likewise have been so "cased" (not the least being Rev. Dr. Swift himself). And there's an issue with the sudden introduction of the CIA. That is, Bradley was not just a known person of interest in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963; not just closely connected to both Drennan and Walker; not just a full-blown Nazi feared by more level-headed lunatics -- but ALSO CIA!!!!! (In prison, Kieth Gilbert related that Dennis Mower was the source of the claim that Lee Harvey Oswald had been a member of the Minutemen. Garrison's investigators may have picked the wrong bullshit specialist to rely on here.)

That is not to say there's nothing to see here. On the contrary; considering the way an extended circle around Swift [beginning at p. 56] seems to have thrown Bradley out there, his presence in Dealey Plaza might be more interesting not from the perspective of him being "part of the hit" but arguably as part of some misdirection and (further) framing.



There's an interesting newspaper article from March 6, 1968 [p. 47] regarding a hit-and-run accident of a pedestrian who was a witness in Garrison's investigation (with the name withheld for their protection). The article gives a considerable amount of further information regarding Drennan and his visit from the Secret Service (mentioned in the note above -- due to President Kennedy's June 10, 1963 stop in the Los Angeles area en route to Hawaii). Mr. Bradley also got some mention, including his having "had a personal interview with Madame Nhu ... the latter part of Oct. 1963 in a Los Angeles Hotel, according to an acquaintance......"

Later in the same source [p. 97], there's a March 19, 1968 memo to Garrison from Boxley regarding "Basic info re Bradley" as a supplement to a previous memorandum of February 16 from William Turner. It's four pages and deserves to be read in full, as it contains a good many names and allegations. Of particular interest to me was the opening paragraph. It states that Carol Aydelotte said she met Edgar Bradley "originally through the manager of the Patrick Henry bookstore in the Los Angeles area," a man named Harvey Stowers, "whom she identified as a former U.S. government agent." If the "patriotic"-themed bookstore was in Glendale, that could help give some perspective on Michael Wayne/Wien's alleged once-only visit to a "Nazi shop."



2.

The previously mentioned 1965 report by the State of California's Attorney General seems to have inspired some watchdog efforts. Two examples are "Hotbed of Hatred," a 90-minute KLAC radio program hosted by Charles Arlington, and the transcript of that program printed in Dixon Gayer's "The Dixon Line," July 15, 1965, pp. 2-12. Ironically, one reason for a good deal of variety in California's Far Right community appears to have been that the State had outlawed the Ku Klux Klan, so "workings of the Klan...[were] not under the name of a Klan group" [p. 5 -- page references are to the transcript in "The Dixon Line," not to the pdf itself].


[9 July 2020: The link no longer works as of this date, because the website certificate for it at jfk.hood.edu expired on May 14th, 2020. Hopefully, it will be re-certified. If not, I'll go ahead and express my amazement and discouragement at the degree to which information, knowledge, etc., has been steadily constricted in recent years. Libraries have eliminated books, documents, etc., and "digitized" them, in the alleged interests of "convenience" and "saving space." But in this particular example, there now seems to be NOTHING useful available in an internet search for "Dixon Gayer's 'The Dixon Line,' July 15, 1965." And the only access to the original "Hotbed of Hatred" program is here, in case you ever find yourself in the vicinity of Milner Library at Illinois State University. This sort of thing is exactly one of the things that Orwell guy was talking about. But is it a question of active, "conspiratorial" restrictions on information access, or merely something mundane, like someone being pissed because they can't make money off of the information and access to it? We now return you to your regularly-scheduled reading - dwd]



In the program, we learn that Wesley Swift gave his sermons at "the Hollywood Women's Club, where services were held each Friday and Sunday" [p. 2]. Also, that there was a Bible Study every Wednesday night at Swift's base on Fig Avenue in Lancaster, California, after which "the hard core group of the rightist movement on the West Coast got together and planned their itinerary for the following week" [p. 4].

Later we find that George Lincoln Rockwell's West Coast headquarters was on Colorado Boulevard in Glendale. And while the American Nazi Party leader held a dim view of many of his fellow rebels, he claimed to "pretty much go along with" Swift [p. 5]. Apparently so, since there was a meeting on 10 June 1964 (from midnight until after 3 in the morning) to map out "the merger between Lincoln Rockwell of the American Nazi Party and Dr. Wesley A. Swift of the Church of Jesus Christ-Christian" [ibid]. That meeting, held at the Reseda residence of Dr. Harold E. Burroughs (veterinarian by day, clandestine leader of LA's KKK day or night), involved general planning for gathering intelligence; a roster of agents and informers; an exchange of the purpose and views of each right-wing organization; and a meeting of all heads of right-wing organizations to form an "arbitrary head" for publicity and "social levels" [p. 6].

That might come across as some sort of conspiracy planning if it didn't involve such good Christians and patriotic Americans.

The program also found connections to the National State's Rights Party. The chairman of the NSRP in San Bernardino County was one Neumann Britton, a close associate of Swift and an ordained minister in the Church of Jesus Christ-Christian. His home on Amana Street in San Bernardino was said to be Connie Lynch's "permanent West Coast address" [ibid]. And a Terrell Ronald Eddy was set up as the NSRP's California State Chairman "in the high desert outside San Diego" [ibid]. San Diego seems to have been a meaningful place, as it was home to both the headquarters of the California Minutemen as well as the Minutemen's overall West Coast leader, Troy Haughton (also spelled Houghton) [p. 7].

(Funny story. Haughton claimed that he recently infiltrated a US military operation in the summer of 1964, an FTX deployment called "Operation Desert Strike." With help from some connections, he impersonated a military officer and had command of a reserve unit "that was given to me" [p. 8].)

The program further revealed that Rev. Dr. Swift had "long been rumored to possess the largest personal arsenal in Southern California...under the guise of a gun collection.... Swift and/or members of his immediate family have purchased upward of 200 operable weapons -- most of them hand guns, in recent years" [ibid]. In a discussion with Swift at the Desert Inn in Lancaster in the spring of 1964, "Swift said that there had been 150 semi-automatics ordered; that 6 of these were ear-marked for him, personally; that all that was necessary to make these weapons automatic was the pulling out of a pin, and that pin had to be kept so that it could be re-inserted [for it to remain legal in California]" [ibid]. The program also related that William H. Garland of Cucamonga, a weapons collector and member of Swift's Christian Defense League, was awaiting trial on a charge of possession of illegal weapons. Authorities found eight machine guns and nearly 100 other rifles, shotguns, and pistols, while Garland's barn served as an ammo dump for "heavy caliber rockets...bombs...high volatile chemicals and thousands of rounds of ammunition" [ibid].

Of particular interest to me was a recounting of a Wednesday night Bible Study session at Swift's headquarters in Lancaster on 3 June 1964. Richard Girnt Butler, the Director of the Christian Defense League, picked up Dr. Burroughs in Reseda on the way. Upon arrival, those present included "3 ex-Baptist ministers, Colonel William P. Gale, ... [and] invariably, the man who has cut the pages of the Bible so that he will have a place to carry his .38 snub-nose.... This evening, he was wearing a Boy Scout of America shirt" [p. 9] The man's identity was either unknown or not provided by the informant. Later it would be mentioned that Swift's son-in-law, Shreve "Duke" Nielsen, acted as Swift's bodyguard [p. 11]. Whether he could have been the Boy Scout is unclear, though someone being "invariably" present is kind of what you would expect from a bodyguard.

A final oddity: the program reports that Swift's "parishioners [were] predominantly women, [though] few if any seem to take any part in his activities" (meaning, the extracurricular activities outside of church) [p. 8]. That would help explain the formal quality of Swift's preaching language, as in the relative rarity of outright racial slurs and his use of the term Negroes when referring to black people. The program notes that only three women were known to be active in Swift's "other" activities: his wife, his secretary, and Doris (Mrs. George) Klenck of Ontario, who was chairman of the Ontario-Upland area of the Christian Defense League [ibid].



3.

In mid-July 2014, I recovered some of my posts that had been deleted by The Education Forum. So I've added here those that had relevance to people mentioned in the original "You Say You Was A Revolution" article as well as other Far Right-related subjects. These consisted of notes I made years ago from Michael and Judy Ann Newton's reference work, The Ku Klux Klan: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1991).

[References are to Encyclopedia Entry (name) followed by page number.]

"Brown, Robert Kenneth"; p. 77
"An army captain stationed at Ft. Benning, Georgia, in December 1963 Brown told FBI agents that he had been active in anti-Castro activities for several years. His activities included visits to National States Rights Party headquarters in Los Angeles, where members discussed the need to eliminate '[President] Kennedy, the Cabinet, all the members of the Americans for Democratic Action and maybe 10,000 other people.' Brown's statements were revealed during the probe of President John F. Kennedy's death." [90]
[90] Turner, William W. Power on the Right. Berkeley, Calif.: Ramparts Press, 1971.

"Constitution Party of the United States"; p. 136
"An extreme right-wing/racist political group active in the early 1960s, the Constitution Party welcomed members of various Klans, the National States Rights Party, and Minutemen into the fold. In 1962, the party's candidate for governor of California was William Gale, the anti-Semitic founder of the California Rangers...." [2; 90]
[2] Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. Extremism on the Right. New York: ADL, 1983.
[90] Turner, William W. Power on the Right. Berkeley, Calif.: Ramparts Press, 1971.

"Constitutional American Party of the United States"; p. 136
"Organized by Klansman Joseph Milteer in October 1963, the Constitutional American Party was conceived after Milteer's formal reprimand for falsely representing himself as a regional director of the Constitution Party of the United States. Veering away from politics toward more direct action, Milteer envisioned his group -- in the words of a declassified FBI report -- as 'a front to form a hard-core underground for possible violence in combating integration.' During this same period Milteer was also active in recruiting members for the National States Rights Party." [95]
[95] Weisberg, Harold. Frame-Up. New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1969.

"Drennan, Dr. Stanley L."; p. 170
"Identified as a leader of the National States Rights Party in North Hollywood, California, in the 1960s, Drennan was active with army Captain Robert Brown and others in covert campaigns against Fidel Castro. According to FBI reports filed in December 1963, Drennan once told Brown that 'what the organization needed was a group of young men to get rid of [President John F.] Kennedy, the Cabinet, and all the members of the Americans for Democratic Action, and maybe ten thousand other people.' According to the FBI, Brown 'gained the impression that Drennan may have been propositioning him on this matter.' Possible connections between the National States Rights Party and Kennedy's assassination were not pursued by the Warren Commission...." [90]
[90] Turner, William W. Power on the Right. Berkeley, Calif.: Ramparts Press, 1971.

"Gale, William Potter"; p. 219
"...Gale retired from the army as a lieutenant colonel. He was briefly affiliated with the John Birch Society before moving towards more extreme right-wing groups. Recruiting from veterans' organizations, he founded the paramilitary California Rangers in the late 1950s, teaching his soldiers that communists were tools of 'the international Jewish conspiracy'.... In 1963, Gale joined the Christian Defense League and began making regular speeches before ex-Klansman Wesley Swift's Church of Jesus Christ Christian. Both the Rangers and the Defense League were known to cooperate with, and recruit members from, the KKK, the National States Rights Party, the Minutemen, and similar groups. In September 1963, shortly before a local church bombing killed four black children, Gale attended a secret meeting with Klan associate Sidney Barnes and John Crommelin in Birmingham, Alabama. A month later, on October 15, 1963, he addressed a private anti-Semitic gathering at the William Penn Hotel, in Whittier, California; members of the audience included Klan 'evangelist' Connie Lynch and at least two undercover policemen. A close associate of North Hollywood States Rights leader Dr. Stanley Drennan, allegedly involved in CIA anti-Castro activities during the early 1960s, Gale ran for governor of California in 1966, his handful of votes lost in the Ronald Reagan landslide... [2; 67; 90]
[2] Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. Extremism on the Right. New York: ADL, 1983.
[67] Norden, Eric. "The Paramilitary Right." Playboy (June 1969).
[90] Turner, William W. Power on the Right. Berkeley, Calif.: Ramparts Press, 1971.

"Helm, Jack"; p. 263
"Appointed as grand klaliff for the Louisiana realm, United Klans of America, in 1965, Helm replaced James Edwards as grand dragon early the following year. His reign was short-lived, and internal dissension led him to resign in March 1967.... On February 23, 1967, a few days before making his break with the United Klans, Helm and Klansman Jules Kimble reportedly visited the New Orleans apartment of Kennedy assassination suspect David Ferrie. (Ferrie, an associate of Lee Harvey Oswald and New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello, had died the previous day, from a 'stroke.') According to Kimble, Helm removed a valise filled with documents from Ferrie's apartment, and took them to a local bank, where they were stored in a safe deposit box. The documents in question were never retrieved." [21; 38]
[21] Flammonde, Paris. The Kennedy Conspiracy. New York: Meredith Press, 1969
[38] House Committee on Un-American Activities. The Present-Day Ku Klux Klan Movement. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967.

"Kimble, Jules Ricco"; p. 316
"An admitted Klansman in New Orleans, Kimble was also a key witness for District Attorney Jim Garrison's 1967 probe of the John Kennedy assassination. Kimble testified that he drove Jack Helm -- former Louisiana grand dragon for the United Klans of America and later chief of his own Universal Klans -- to the home of Minuteman and assassination suspect David Ferrie on the day after Ferrie's death, watching Helm remove a valise filled with papers that were taken to a bank safe deposit box. Kimble also claimed to have flown errands for the Minutemen to Montreal, Canada, working occasionally under contract for the CIA. The witness vanished briefly after giving Garrison his statement, and was traced by investigators to Atlanta and Montreal before his ultimate arrest as a material witness in Tampa, Florida. By that time, Canadian newsmen were speculating on a possible New Orleans link between Kimble and James Earl Ray in the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1978, a congressional committee probing both assassinations confirmed Kimble's 'extensive criminal record' and Klan connections, but no link with the King assassination was established. The committee did not address Kimble's allegations concerning Ferrie and Helm." [21; 39]
[21] Flammonde, Paris. The Kennedy Conspiracy. New York: Meredith Press, 1969
[39] House Select Committee on Assassinations. The Final Assassinations Report. New York: Bantam, 1979.
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"BARNES, SIDNEY CROCKETT"; p. 38
"A resident of Mobile, Alabama, Barnes hosted group meetings at which anti-Semitic records were played and discussed during the 1960s. In the fall of 1963, he joined several Klansmen on a trip to Birmingham, hoping to kill Dr. Martin Luther King, but their target remained elusive. While visiting Birmingham, shortly before a church bombing killed four black children, Barnes participated in a secret conference with Klan associates John Crommelin and William Potter Gale. His Mobile home was the site of Kathy Ainsworth's first meeting with Thomas Tarrants."

"BROWN, JACK WILSON"; p. 76
"The operator of a gas station in a Chattanooga suburb and Klansman, Brown...[was] active in the United White Party, and once served the National States Rights Party as a presidential elector. In 1957, with his brother Harry and several others, Brown was expelled from Klavern No. 1 of the U.S. Klans. That October, he chartered the rival Dixie Klans and emerged as imperial wizard, a post he held until his death in the summer of 1965. Identified as a suspect in the September 1963 bombing of a Birmingham, Alabama, church that killed four children, Brown was also implicated by Joseph Milteer in continuing plots to kill Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."

"MORRIS, WILLIAM HUGH"; pp. 404-5
"A Birmingham, Alabama, roofing contractor and a Klansman since 1924, Morris emerged as grand wizard of his own Federated Ku Klux Klans in June 1946.... By 1963, he was living in Georgia, newly affiliated with James Venable's National Knights of the KKK.... Police informants have accused Morris of hiring New Orleans gangsters to execute the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, but a 1979 congressional report on the assassination found no evidence to substantiate those claims."
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My brief notes of references of interest for future study (begun alphabetically):


Groups

American Conservative Party (St. Louis/Workers for Wallace; Floyd Kitchen; James Kernodle, associate of Robert DePugh)

American Independent Party:
a. Florida (JBS-KKK precinct-level organizing, "financed by wealthy citrus growers working quietly..."; Fla AIP "dominated by Cecil King, a wealthy farmer...from Parrish, Fla")
b. "In 1968, the head of the AIP central committee in Los Angeles was Kenneth Waite, who had attended secret Minutemen training camps." "Members of the Citizens' Council also controlled the AIP in Bakersfield, California, where one faction was chaired by Reverend Alvin Mayall."
c. Georgia (AIP leader was Roy Harris, an officer of the Citizens' Council)

Americans for Preservation of the White Race (front for White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi; secretary-treasurer was Sybil Nix, wife of Klansman and convicted murderer Deavours Nix; backed Ross Barnett in '67 gov. race; J.B. Stoner addressed group rally in Meridian in May 1968, "at the height of racial bombings in the area.")

American Southern Publishing Company (United Klans of America publisher in 60's, won Wallace contract for Alabama textbooks; Shelton)

Anglo-Saxon Christian Congregation (Swift's precursor to Ch. of JC-Christian, remained active to early 50s; w/some 200-300 members, was rated by ADL as strongest anti-Semitic group on the West Coast)

Black Shirts (secretive, violence-prone group w/in National Knights of the KKK, "theoretically" operating w/out approval or knowledge of Imperial Wizard James Venable; Earl Holcombe, Colbert McGriff, Cecil Myers, Joseph Sims)

Blackwell Real Estate bombing (Jackson, Miss. office bombed 7 Mar 68; 10 April, County grand jury indicted 10 White Knights: Imp Wiz Sam Bowers, James L. Harper [arrested w/115 sticks o dynamite], Joe Daniel [Danny Joe] Hawkins, attorney Harry Kelly, Burris Leon Dunn, Jr., L.E. Matthews ["a former province giant" & evidently the explosives expert for White Knights], William Pickle [employee of St Hwy Dept], Jimmy Copeland, William Watkins [former circulation manager for Jackson Clarion-Ledger]

Cahaba River Group (similar "in form and function to the Silver Dollar Group or Nacirema, Inc.," Alabama splinter group "organized by violence-prone ex-Klansmen"; "bombing specialists" who maintained ties to Nacirema "and conducted demolition seminars to prepare its members for violent action against blacks"; suspected of involvement in Sept. 63 church bombing, 3 members were Charles Cagle, Robert Chambliss, John Hall; 1988 declassified FBI reports revealed Robert Shelton & 2 other UKA officials cooperated with Al Lingo's troopers)

California Anti-Communist League (front group for anti-Semitic activities of Swift and Dennis Mower, based in 71 in Lancaster)

California Rangers (did most early recruiting thru veterans groups; 1965 report by California state attorney general stated Rangers "have intimate connections with the Ku Klux Klan, the National States Rights Party, the Christian Defense League, and the Church of Jesus Christ Christian.")



Individuals

Anderson, William Allison (from Decatur Georgia, served as instructor at UKA demolition school, held on Ga farm of O.C. Mixon Oct. 1961; one of 40 Klansmen booked for operating disorderly house at Dekalb Co. local klavern; also linked to bombing activities of Nacirema, Inc.)

Andrew, Dr. John S. (resident of Stone Mountain, Ga, led JBS chapter in Emory; KKK ties and to Gen. E Walker)

Bagwell, Robert (conflicting sources on whether native of Tennessee or No. Carolina; joined Klan at 14, drifted into NSRP and later moved to Roosevelt, Long Island and joined Minutemen there)

Bailey, Wesley Guy, III (Ga attorney & Clayton County klokard, UKA; refused to answer congressional questions abt June 29, 1964 meeting in Lake City Community House regarding Klansmen agreement on necessity of violence to stop integration; his klavern also sponsored Oct 64 seminar on violent techniques in armed resistance to civil rights movement)

Barnett, Ethel "Hop" Glen (preceded Lawrence Rainey as sheriff Neshoba Co., Miss; both he and Rainey were members of White Knights; one of 21 Klansmen arrested 4 Dec. 64 by FBI in Schwerner case, Barnett re-elected sheriff in 67 while charges were still pending after mistrials)

Bartlett, Charles (served as "violence school" instructor 17 Oct 64, sponsored by UKA Clayton Co. klavern on farm owned by Robert Bing)

Beckwith, Byron de la (after first mistrial in Medgar Evers murder 7 Feb. 64, Gen. E Walker appeared in court to shake B's hand, and he "promptly joined the White Knights of the KKK after his release.")

Bright, George Michael (member of NSRP in Atlanta; police "dropped hints of an anti-Semitic 'fat cat' supporting the group" that was jailed for 12 Oct 58 synagogue bombing; group included Bright, Wallace Allen, Kenneth Griffin, Luther Crowley, and brothers Richard and Robert Bowling; Bright ties to John Crommelin, Bill Hendrix, John Hamilton, John Kasper)

Buckles, Billy (Miss. grand giant of the White Knights under Imp Wiz Sam Bowers; addressed Jackson rally aftr Neshoba murders of Schwerner et al, "Now they know what we will do. etc")

Bucklew, Henry (mayor Laurel, Miss; denounced White Knights in TV appearance 18 Oct 65 "with charges that would later be substantiated in police and congressional investigations.")

Buckley, Travis (Miss. lawyer & active member of White Knights; chief defense attorney for defendants in Schwerner case; arrested for kidnapping Jack Watkins, key prosecution witness in Dahmer case; 10 mos later was held on arson charges in Dahmer murder)

Byrd, Douglas (original founder of White Knights of KKK at Brookhaven, Miss. conference in Feb 64; replaced by Bowers two months later)

Carter, Asa Earl (Gerald L. K. Smith associate, strongly anti-Semitic; extremely violent background throughout the 50s, associated with Crommelin and John Kasper; 1961 became special assistant to George Wallace; "In later years, he served as an organizer of Wallace-for-President clubs, and sent out the invitations to the several dozen men who met at Montgomery's Woodley Country Club to launch the ex-governor's 1968 presidential race.")

Chaney, William Marshall (Indiana's UKA grand dragon beginning Jan. 67, active in Wallace support in 68 throughout state)

Taylor, John Ross (Canadian Western Guard leader, maintained close ties to NSRP, J. B. Stoner; Jack Prins)


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