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Author Stetson Kennedy, whose writings exposed the KKK’s workings in the 1940s, dies at 94

Author and folklorist Stetson Kennedy, who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan six decades ago and exposed its secrets to authorities and the public but was also criticized for possibly exaggerating his exploits, died Saturday. He was 94. Kennedy died at Baptist Medical Center South near St. Augustine, where he had been receiving hospice care.

 

Ku Klux Klan man dies four years after jailing for 1964 murders

Ku Klux Klan man dies four years after jailing for 1964 murders

James Ford Seale, who in 1964 committed one of the most gruesome acts of the segregationist South when he tied blocks to the feet of two black teenagers and threw them still breathing into the Mississippi river, has died – for the second time.

 

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