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control. well now we delve into the murky world of neo nazis a right wing extremists part one of our special report coming up stay with us. there was one klan plot out of texas nine hundred ninety seven where these klansman attended love a natural gas refinery and they succeeded the authorities said after they were all arrested no one was hurt thought they likely would have killed thirty thousand people that is ten times the number of people i started on that i left in the world trade center if there's going to be any south salvation. our culture white european culture in north america. all violence is. guaranteed because they're not listening.

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arm number speaking at the end of elation e.p. branch in dallas about nineteen forty seven and after i had spoken and people were shaking in one i felt this hug around the navy and let down there's this little girl looking up at me and saying i know that you do you go on to mean my folks in income tell us what a fiction to do. stetson kennedy you know was something of a legend i've heard about him for many many years i mean he was a guy who worked with congress in all kinds of racist groups to try neuter the klan

human filtrated klan and infiltrate it very very effectively a great mistake it's think about the klan in terms of a few nuts or french people who are psychopaths. racism has been a part of the american system and as far back as you can go. and to claim it was simply didn't care or just unfortunate arm of it. in the mid one nine hundred twenty s. the klan and over four million members you know at a time when the country was much much smaller than the klan in the twenty's controlled state governorships they control big politicians it was really quite different i recorded deathbed statement to phone or imperial. president warren harding into the klan and most every morning in the green room of the white house. should he was so nervous that he forgot about the left in the car and the president harding had just been for the white house bubble. token of appreciation president

harding variable number of elections. could run red lights for up me something. like. stetson really was one of the pioneers and getting the klan to lose credibility on the national stand and on making this an acceptable behavior that people who are in politics and then the police and whatever they should not be part of this and that it actually ends terrorism.

when the civil rights movement essentially was successful the klan really did fade away. what they call the fourth era klan when it came back was the klan of david duke which peers in the late seventy's and really david duke was all about the idea of let's get rid of the ropes let's put on business suits let's hold meetings and motels we need sort of get out of the cow pastures and into the motels. greensborough was an amazing moments that came relatively late. in the century

at a time when people really did not expect the clan to be picking up weapons and murdering their enemies in open daylight let alone on t.v. the fact is that's precisely what happened. part of a group it had organized to have an anti clinton inspiration and conference and when the third one hundred seventy nine. i was one of the coordinators of the march so i was kind of busily looking in on this not me own thing and it was actually standing on the street corner for a little while not far from seeing the smith. line of cars.

moving very slowly came down the street. and cindy said it's weird so once we said no cops here. she was right and cindy did moments later. i saw this caravan of. confederate flag on. one of the cars i knew it was the klan and the first car in the caravan was a pickup truck a guy leaned out with a long barreled black pistol waved it in the sky a couple times shot one shot into the sky and yelled something in the car a stop and got point a group of guys with sticks jumped on the car began beating people and drove folks back into the housing project to gather. totally confused what was going on and it was happening but you know there is running and running with people i reached the point of relative safety behind someone somewhere

and looked behind me and i saw that caesar. was a very big fella was standing with a stick and appeared to be fighting off some other guys with sticks. and i was carrying a stick with a picket sign on it so i turned around and i ran toward caesar thinking he could use some hope that i had a stick. there was just a deafening roar of gunfire tremendous when the noise people screaming sticks cracking all kinds of things will happen could tell what was going on. all of a sudden boom boom i got hit twice in the head in the arm but what i didn't know. i saw my very close friend cesar couse a lying in

a strange on his chest and face. i knew he was hurt i knew by that time it was probably shot. i ran up to him as soon as the klansmen drove off and i tried to. turn him over and a whole lot of air came out of his lung and i thought oh my goodness at least he's alive he's still breathing but then the air just kept on coming out and. it was it was his last breath it was all out it wasn't he wasn't breathing an. awful lot of cold to go with the. lead. but. i ran over to paul and he was shot right in his head and it was bleeding it was also shot in his arm and it was

the most helpless feeling. i kept trying to get out because when through it could be useful one doctor couldn't get up i couldn't figure out why i was terribly confusing. i moved around and i was able to see there was blood on the grass roomier and one. zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero hour. he was five hours of brain surgery that night and they really didn't think he would live. the surgeon already knew he was paralyzed on the left side. he did survive but has been you know. seriously crippled. since that time. here we are where planning to have march and conference. you know part of hundreds of demonstrations and then suddenly caravan come in and then in

eighty eight seconds kill five very close friends and almost killed my husband. for me it divided my life and in other words it's like before. november third one hundred seventy nine and after. because we believe life is valuable because five lives were lost. and ten people were injured in the tragedy of november three nine hundred seventy nine we must examine the beliefs and issues that brought about these events written akim agreed bert they put both ground did to the clean it was hard not to rock we were not good in man walking good for america sheep say army would be good playing and i'm not a prude mostly and i don't that's why i'm here today. i was marching in greece

bursting night hundred sixty three. and the police never would leave you alone well the one in there not they would they all the time to help or hinder them both this is the first time i've ever been to a rally where there was no policeman they they were there and then they were sent away for lunch. police officers were assigned to be on post they were told get to your post what is not being clarified if their post was not winter center for everton. their post with my high school. i had access to these documents read them back as i read it ot write a play and quality of luck and believe. you don't live up to groups with big framed political views from each other. come together without a buffer. in the buffer we've been. painted yes we should have been me.

i did not keep a record of the race of a juror or selected all rejected but if i can't trust my memory after twenty five years i believe an all white jury was selected. this was. one thousand. now and this is still happening. and i was naive enough to believe north. the set up for the first trial was such that it rivaled be set up for the murders themselves in terms of the careful planning that went into it the district attorney who is the prosecuting attorney who was supposedly representing the interests of the victims said people around here think the company's workers party got what they deserved the d.a.'s office chose not only

all white jury but a very very racist pro klan jury including people who thought it was less of a crime to kill a communist people who thought that. neighbors and friends were klansman and is really ridiculous. so that they they acquitted the klan and. express both the local and the federal court acquitted the shooters so no one ever went to prison on those killings it was quite amazing. the jury for the first time had a black person and a liberal woman and that trial and the klan and jointly liable with employees of the greensboro police department the survivors pooled the resources that we gathered from the civil suit which ward

a certain amount of money to set up the greensboro justice fund which is an organization to fund grassroots groups in the u.s. south the funding racial violence and that's really been a tremendous positive legacy this corner of the greens were massacred the civil trial was a partial victory but other than that it was just lots of justice. documenting the clan is something that i feel is a calling in my life. my goal for the project is to document as thoroughly as possible they have vents the actions and the beliefs of the klan members. attend rallies ten marches.

cross lighting ceremonies on private property i've promised these groups i want to be fair and objective and documenting what they believe even though a lot of what they do i don't believe it and. i've tried to stick to that promise. no one child that i've hurt with was just five years old when i saw him last he was a fifth generation klansman and i've got this picture of his father assisting him and teaching him how to hold a lip torch vary across lighting ceremony with him in a full row. there has been one instance where where a father of a child and i photographed was extremely upset about about the project and in this one particular photograph that took of his child next to a black ball hanging from a noose the members were joking about stringing up blacks from the nearest

tree and i wrote their comments in their jokes and the captioning of that photograph and it was published in the father of the child solved picture. and i was very upset about it. and some months later i came to an event where i had not had an opportunity to ask for permission to be there. the mother of the child had come out to greet me she said her husband was still a bit upset and it would take a little time for him to get over his anger. about the time i turned around and noticed the father had a rifle pointed at me with about ten or so of his buddies they circled me and told me that it was time for me to leave and they were counting to five and i had best be gone by the time they finished i made a decision to leave at that point. so i got my car and walked the doors driving down the road with a truck full of klansmen behind me yelling and shouting. coming up on my tail so

i was able to stir up enough dust on the gravel road to lose them. and i never turn back you know and i feel fortunate to have gotten out of there without incident most of the clan groups that i've been dealing with i feel that they're called by biblical scripture and by god to be separate races they tell me that the lighting of the cross is not a burning but rather of a lie that represents the life that jesus brought into the world. today we're looking at not a single clam like we had in the twenty's and during reconstruction but in fact about thirty five thirty six different clans groups and in many cases these clan groups all despise each other right where the one true clan those other guys those are you know f.b.i. agents are there you know they sleep with black women or they're secretly gay or

you know anyone any number of things like that so you've got this so what the klan seen today are these thirty five kind of squabbling little groups all of which together might comprise six thousand maybe seven thousand at the most people around the country. and they're not taken terribly seriously. the ku klux klan is not what it used to be today but unfortunately there are still many many hate groups out there and they just are known by other names and i think without question that the most important groups out there in terms of scary and significant are neo nazi groups. us. was. was.

was. roughed up my stock was that. was. one person from. coming here. and the national socialist movement has been around for almost thirty years for about thirty years but in fact it was a non-entity it was a tiny little group that had essentially no importance at all in the larger kind of radical right or white supremacist world but that has changed in the last year this group has almost literally exploded. next gen x. we. have the working class who cause we have the skin or. the fire to. get out and tell us marxists and and her concern for youth was a. big supporters of. the

right wing racial groups of which i am not connected to i know a lot of them but we disagree on a lot of things they have the idea. the mass recruitment there we if we get enough people we just got to sign up enough people that we can when we are here stand. fast gratian people get worse we will. be tearing we are going to grow we have been growing our growth came up from stuff and we are going to control your point it back on track to treat evil evil enough race if people wish. and i think. i'm not. i'd like to get saved in there and

i do think if you think there. is this. these people have to be put in special buses and transported to their demonstration by the police and that to me is the ultimate insult i will not be put in a changeling in quote here i will not cooperate with police when i talk about my rights to prescreen for you. like people in this country that's. one thing about the national socialist movement is that they are very specialized kind of outrage tactics they go up to lido iow and they march sure they try to march into a black neighborhood and what happens is they're stopped by the cops but there's riot. i know it's we next time. it's you know we said it was

a. city said it was ok. we marched streets and again started. that i will say from the national socialist movements point of view and untrammeled victory you never had to march at all and so you know they're able to go home and watch on t.v. as the network television of all three major network shows you know black people rioting in toledo and some sits back and says see that's how they are. thank. you. so our. you will be. right. tell you the. u.s. was was was was. was was. was was was was

was was was. thousands. no matter what causes it's happening there's always infighting and any struggle now admittedly. so much of it in the right wing is so silly and my cat fights all the time i've always said even though we don't like it it's a sign of some life if there was no life there you would hear nothing.

what we have found over the years is that perhaps surprisingly the absolute number one recruiting mechanism for bringing young people into the movement is five the music scene i have talked myself to many many people who've come out of the white supremacist world and have said just that you know when i was seventeen sixteen years old angry about this angry about that didn't you know i was i mad at my parents for some reason this music interests. of course the real moment of recruitment doesn't happen from listening you know on your walkman or whatever to this music the moment of recruitment happens when that kid actually leaves his parents' house and ghost it was first in this room.

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