KLAN INITIATION RITE Behind the scenes footage from an apparent Klan initiation. CU of the elaborately dressed leader whose costume includes a death's head mask and a royal crown. He ceremoniously touches the shoulders of someone in a white sheet. WS shows group of white-sheeted men sitting in a circle. They rise in unison and bow. Two night shots with hooded men, one shot with a burning cross. Also, a grisly still of a triple lynching.
KLAN MEMBERS BURN CROSS Images from a Klan rally. As a cross burns in the night, a white-hooded Klan member walks by holding a flaming torch. Panning shot shows group of sheet-wearing racists. In one chilling shot, an evil looking Klansman dangles a doll effigy of an African American baby from a string.
LOCAL LEADERS OPPOSE MLK A black Chicago Reverend denounces the civil rights efforts of Martin Luther King and LBJ and suggests that such figures let the local city leaders solve their own problems.
KLANSMEN MAKE CIRCLE, BURN CROSS Unusual step-by-step coverage shows white racists at a KKK cross burning. Men in white hoods and robes line up. Good CUs of faces. Various shots show them lighting torches in a fire and standing in a big circle, flames puncuating the night. A giant cross goes up in flames. After the cross ignites the racists toss their torches into the middle of the circle.
RACISTS GIVE DOLLARS TO KLAN 7The Klan holds a fundraiser at night attended by men in white sheets and other white men, women and at least one child in civilian clothing. CU of a leader in a black hood and robe gesturing as he asks for donations. Various shots of attendees walking up to speaker and handing over cash. CU of a fist holding paper money. A man counts the haul at a table.
KLANSMAN COLLIE WILKINS ACQUITTED - 1965 Alabama Klansman Collie Wilkins is mobbed by reporters as he leaves the courthouse after his acquittal in the murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo. Cut to Wilkins defense attorney discussing the case and its fairness although news media at the time pointed out the decision was made by a jury of 12 white men including four challenged by Attorney General Richmond Flowers for racial prejudice.
Date: October 22, 1965 - BLACK/WHITE Source: Film: 16P Length: 00:01:34:00, With Audio
DEFENSE ATTORNEY HANES ON DELAY IN WILKINS TRIAL - 1965 Defense attorney Art Hanes expresses his dismay of delays in the trial of Alabama Klansman Collie Wilkins. Attorney General Richmond Flowers delayed the trial after rejecting 11 jurors for racial prejudice.
Date: October 19, 1965 - BLACK/WHITE Source: Film: 16P Length: 00:00:34:00, No Audio
ATTORNEY GENERAL FLOWERS REJECTS JURORS - 1965 Alabama Klansman Collie Wilkins leaves the courthouse where he will be tried for the murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo. Cut to Attorney General Richmond Flowers telling reporters he rejected potential jurors for Wilkins trial because of racial prejudice.
Date: October 19, 1965 - BLACK/WHITE Source: Film: 16P Length: 00:01:23:00, With Audio
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