It's also simply not credible to think that everyone involved either directly or indirectly* has remained silent for over 5 decades. Except of course for a couple of incorrigible liars in Hunt and Ventura. Surely someone would say something to clear their conscience and attempt to see some form of justice by having the official record corrected.
* i.e. not made aware of the master plan but soon realised how they were duped yet still decide to remain silent forever. I'd imagine many of these would be honest people living ordinary lives who have a natural sense of right and wrong.
Buell Frazier did say that he was duped, and asked people to walk a mile in his moccasins, the clip is on here somewhere
The KKK membership was secret, and these guys did not tell on the Klan, they were cops doctors judges you name the profession and the KKK had them in their membership
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_KlanSecond KKK
See also: Ku Klux Klan in Canada
KKK night rally in Chicago, c. 1920
In 1915, the second Klan was founded atop Stone Mountain, Georgia by William Joseph Simmons. While Simmons relied on documents from the original Klan and memories of some surviving elders, the revived Klan was based significantly on the wildly popular film, The Birth of a Nation. The earlier Klan hadn?t worn the white costumes or burned crosses; these were aspects introduced in the film. When the film was shown in Atlanta in December of that year, Simmons and his new klansmen paraded to the theater in robes and pointed hoods ? many on robed horses ? just like in the movie. These mass parades would become another hallmark of the new Klan that had not existed in the original Reconstruction-era organization.[30]
Beginning in 1921, it adopted a modern business system of using full-time paid recruiters and appealed to new members as a fraternal organization, of which many examples were flourishing at the time. The national headquarters made its profit through a monopoly of costume sales, while the organizers were paid through initiation fees. It grew rapidly nationwide at a time of prosperity. Reflecting the social tensions pitting urban versus rural America, it spread to every state and was prominent in many cities. The second KKK preached "One Hundred Percent Americanism" and demanded the purification of politics, calling for strict morality and better enforcement of prohibition. Its official rhetoric focused on the threat of the Catholic Church, using anti-Catholicism and nativism.[3] Its appeal was directed exclusively at white Protestants; it opposed Jews, blacks, Catholics, and newly arriving Southern European immigrants such as Italians.[31] Some local groups threatened violence against rum runners and notorious sinners; the violent episodes generally took place in the South.[32] The Red Knights were a militant group organized in opposition to the KKK and responded violently to KKK provocations on several occasions.[33]
The second Klan was a formal fraternal organization, with a national and state structure. During the resurgence of the second Klan during the 1920s, its publicity was handled by the Southern Publicity Association?within the first six months of the Associations national recruitment campaign, Klan membership had increased by 85,000.[34] At its peak in the mid-1920s, the organization claimed to include about 15% of the nation's eligible population, approximately 4?5 million men. Internal divisions, criminal behavior by leaders, and external opposition brought about a collapse in membership, which had dropped to about 30,000 by 1930. It finally faded away in the 1940s.[35] Klan organizers also operated in Canada, especially in Saskatchewan in 1926?28, where Klansmen denounced immigrants from Eastern Europe as a threat to Canada's British heritage.[36][37]
Third KKK
The "Ku Klux Klan" name was used by numerous independent local groups opposing the civil rights movement and desegregation, especially in the 1950s and 1960s. During this period, they often forged alliances with Southern police departments, as in Birmingham, Alabama; or with governor's offices, as with George Wallace of Alabama.[38] Several members of KKK groups were convicted of murder in the deaths of civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964 and children in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham in 1963.
