WALLACE: You feel that the South respects the Klan?
EDWARDS: Well they do -- they respect the Klan for the principles of which it stands.
WALLACE: Well in the light of this respect that you describe, how do you account for a report like this, Mr. Edwards I'll read from the New York Times -- December 16, 1956 describing the appearance of three robed Klansmen on a street in Montgomery, Alabama in broad daylight. "Several Negroes, quote... this is from the Times, "looked unflinchingly at the robed men and began to smile and then to laugh."
WALLACE: "There were whites, too on the corner of Court Square and grins of amused incredulity were on most of their faces. One of them scratched his chin as he watched the hooded Klansman and he said: Looks like they've been lost out of one of them old movies."
WALLACE: And then the Times article goes on to say: "Nothing more vividly illustrates the change in basic race attitudes in this Cradle of the Confederacy than the disregard and the amused contempt that the Negroes and it must be emphasized most of the whites -- now express openly for the Ku Klux Klan." Now if these... if this is the way that things are, Mr. Edwards, and we have received similar reports from throughout the South, how much respected can the Klan really be?
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THE MIKE WALLACE INTERVIEW.
WALLACE: You feel that the South respects the Klan?
EDWARDS: Well they do -- they respect the Klan for the principles of which it stands.
WALLACE: Well in the light of this respect that you describe, how do you account for a report like this, Mr. Edwards I'll read from the New York Times -- December 16, 1956 describing the appearance of three robed Klansmen on a street in Montgomery, Alabama in broad daylight. "Several Negroes, quote... this is from the Times, "looked unflinchingly at the robed men and began to smile and then to laugh."
WALLACE: "There were whites, too on the corner of Court Square and grins of amused incredulity were on most of their faces. One of them scratched his chin as he watched the hooded Klansman and he said: Looks like they've been lost out of one of them old movies."
WALLACE: And then the Times article goes on to say: "Nothing more vividly illustrates the change in basic race attitudes in this Cradle of the Confederacy than the disregard and the amused contempt that the Negroes and it must be emphasized most of the whites -- now express openly for the Ku Klux Klan." Now if these... if this is the way that things are, Mr. Edwards, and we have received similar reports from throughout the South, how much respected can the Klan really be?
5/5/1957
The Dali one is interesting.
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