— Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944
In 1946, Byrd wrote a letter to Samuel Green, the Ku Klux Klan’s Grand Wizard, stating, “The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation.”
That should on the front page of the Turtles hometown newspaper. Just the picture. No caption.