Vanderbilt Television News Archive

(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Max Robinson

(NYC) Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi killings of 5 in Greensboro, North Carolina, in November 1979 recalled; films shown. Incr. in religious and racial violence in US examined; 1980 racial violence recalled include Ku Klux Klan shooting of 5 blacks in Chattanooga, Vernon Jordan's attack, Miami race riots, Buffalo, New York, racial murders, American Nazi marches and attacks on synagogues; films shown. Interpretation by some of Atlanta, Georgia, child killings as racial noted. [Atlanta march organizer Kenneth FLOWERS - claims racism is responsible for killings.] Resurgence of Ku Klux Klan discussed; Klan's founding recalled based on attacks on blacks, Jews and Catholics. 1937 film shown. KKK's growth in North and Midwest and apparent appeal to middle-class whites outlined. Bill Wilkinson, Imperial Wizard of Invisible Empire of the KKK, shown. Proliferation of splinter racist groups such as the Posse Comitatus, the Aryan Nation, the Committee of Ten Million, Minutemen, National States Rights Party, National Renaissance Party, National Socialist White People's Party (a neo-Nazi organization), the Christian Patriots Defense League discussed. [Patriots Defense League spokesperson John HARRELL - claims race and culture are being lost.] League noted entirely white, fundamentalist Christian and paramilitary. [Jean CORNWELL, Jim ELLISON, Lambert MILLER - spout racist rhetoric.] Indoctrination of children by Ku Klux Klan and Nazis outlined.
REPORTER: Jim Wooten