[NathanBookman]

"Ku Klux Klansmen in hoods and robes showed up"

Where was Senator Byrd on that day???

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A Senator's Shame
Byrd, in His New Book, Again Confronts Early Ties to KKK

By Eric Pianin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 19, 2005; Page A01

In the early 1940s, a politically ambitious butcher from West Virginia named Bob Byrd recruited 150 of his friends and associates to form a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. After Byrd had collected the $10 joining fee and $3 charge for a robe and hood from every applicant, the "Grand Dragon" for the mid-Atlantic states came down to tiny Crab Orchard, W.Va., to officially organize the chapter.

As Byrd recalls now, the Klan official, Joel L. Baskin of Arlington, Va., was so impressed with the young Byrd's organizational skills that he urged him to go into politics. "The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation," Baskin said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105.html

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

**Where was Senator Byrd on that day???***


Good question, after all, Byrds of a feather flock together.