By Jerry Mitchell The Clarion-Ledger No matter where I speak about the Ku Klux Klan’s 1964 killings of three civil rights workers, I inevitably get asked this question: Did the Mafia really help the FBI solve the case? The people who ask that question have usually heard some version of this story: Desperate to solve…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Looking to get a better understanding of extremist and racist symbols and tattoos? The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a Jewish organization which often works with law enforcement, is out to help. The organization on Monday announced that it has launched a major new online database of extremist and racist symbols and tattoos….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Frazier Glenn Cross rarely missed an opportunity to espouse his white-supremacist beliefs. But local and federal authorities are having a hard time finding evidence that the 73-year-old Army veteran and retired truck driver with ties to the KKK ever resorted to violence, the Associated Press reports. That was until Sunday, when he…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former KKK leader is suspected of killing three people at two Jewish centers Sunday afternoon in Kansas. Frazier Glenn Cross, Jr., 73, is accused of shooting to death a 14-year-old Eagle Scout and his grandfather in the parking lot at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City campus in Overland…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Dargan Frierson, whose career with the FBI included keeping tabs on the Ku Klux Klan, died Saturday. He was 92, the News & Record reports. His son recalls his father working a “tough assignment.” “I remember him getting calls in the middle of the night, having to drive down to the Eastern…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 20-year-old Louisiana woman who claimed she was set on fire by racists who scrawled KKK and a racial slur on her car made up the incident, state police said Tuesday, the New York Daily News reports. Police said forensic evidence shows Sharmeka Moffitt set herself on fire on Sunday and invented…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating allegations of a hate crime after a 20-year-old black woman said she was set on fire by three men who scrawled KKK and a racial slur on her car in Louisiana, the Associated Press reports. More than half of Sharmeka Moffitt’s body was covered in burns – some…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, who belonged to the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s and fought against legislation protecting black people, received secret FBI records about the civil rights movement in the 1960s, the Associated Press reports. Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat who died in June 2010, suspected Communists and others…
