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Sam Bowers Dies (Former KKK Imperial Wizard)
WJTV Jackson, MS ^
| Rovember 5, 2006
| WJTV
Posted on 11/05/2006 8:53:46 PM PST by onyx
Officials say Former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard Samuel H. Bowers died today in a state penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta.
He was serving a life sentence for the 1966 bombing death of civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer.
The 82-year-old Bowers was convicted in August of 1998 of ordering the assassination.
Dahmer, a civil rights activist had fought for black rights during Mississippi's turbulent struggle for racial equality.
Department of Corrections spokeswoman Tara Booth said in news release that Bowers died at approximately 11:30 am of cardio pulmonary arrest in the Mississippi State Penitentiary Hospital in Parchman.
Dahmer's widow, Ellie Dahmer tells The Associated Press that the death brings little closure to a wound she has nursed for decades.
She says, "He was supposed to stay there until he died. I guess he fulfilled that. He lived a lot longer than Vernon Dahmer did. It won't bring Vernon back."
Vernon Dahmer died at the age of 58 after being fire-bombed outside his home.
TOPICS: US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: kkk; klan
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posted on
11/05/2006 8:53:47 PM PST
by
onyx
To: onyx
Will Senator Byrd be at the funeral?
2
posted on
11/05/2006 8:54:37 PM PST
by
saganite
(Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
To: onyx
Where will he be buried?
Will they accept a FEDEX of my piss to dump on his grave?
3
posted on
11/05/2006 8:54:38 PM PST
by
Petronski
(Why won't Diebold talk about RYMB.DLL?)
To: onyx
Sam. Sam Bowers. Good ol' Sam Bowers. Sam was a card.
I never met him.
4
posted on
11/05/2006 8:54:48 PM PST
by
Silly
To: onyx
5
posted on
11/05/2006 8:54:56 PM PST
by
misterrob
(Bill Clinton, The Wizard of "Is")
To: Petronski
He was one SOB. I'd love to know the dirty secrets he took to his grave.
6
posted on
11/05/2006 8:55:55 PM PST
by
onyx
(We have two political parties: the American Party and the Anti-American Party.)
To: onyx
Will the Byrd campaign be able to carry on?
7
posted on
11/05/2006 8:56:44 PM PST
by
M203M4
To: onyx
His orders came in. He is to be one of Saddam's 72 Virgins.
8
posted on
11/05/2006 8:56:54 PM PST
by
msnimje
(You simply cannot be Christian and Pro-Abortion.)
To: onyx
Even in death he will continue to vote Democrat.
9
posted on
11/05/2006 8:57:01 PM PST
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: onyx
I hope he feels the searing pain Vernon Dahlmer did on that night in January,1967.
To: onyx
I'm going to hold it tell he's planted, Then it's number two babie!
11
posted on
11/05/2006 8:57:47 PM PST
by
Boazo
(From the mind of BOAZO)
To: onyx
Hopefully he turned from racism toward his end of life on this Earth.
12
posted on
11/05/2006 8:58:01 PM PST
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( The EU is opposed to Saddam Hussein's death sentence.)
To: onyx
I'd love to know the dirty secrets he took to his grave.I bet he done miscegenated. Many times.
13
posted on
11/05/2006 8:58:01 PM PST
by
Petronski
(Why won't Diebold talk about RYMB.DLL?)
To: LibLieSlayer; vetvetdoug; NerdDad; cdbear; WKB; MagnoliaMS; MississippiMan; Rebel Coach; ...
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posted on
11/05/2006 8:59:05 PM PST
by
onyx
(We have two political parties: the American Party and the Anti-American Party.)
To: onyx
To: onyx
Chris Matthews will be deeply saddened - one less Racist White Conservative to vote against Harold Ford....
16
posted on
11/05/2006 9:05:35 PM PST
by
decal
(Building a wall on the border is like treating lung cancer with cough syrup.)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
11/05/2006 9:06:16 PM PST
by
onyx
(We have two political parties: the American Party and the Anti-American Party.)
To: decal
LOL --- well, he died in MS and couldn't vote regardless.
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posted on
11/05/2006 9:06:57 PM PST
by
onyx
(We have two political parties: the American Party and the Anti-American Party.)
To: saganite
Mi>Will Senator Byrd be at the funeral?
If not in the flesh then certainly in spirit...
Bowers and Senator Byrd were both members of a vile and murderous terrorist organization that basically pioneered the modern concept of terrorism.
Bowers deserved the chair. The "conscious of the Senate" Byrd is a disgrace to that chamber, the 'rats, and the nation.
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posted on
11/05/2006 9:08:12 PM PST
by
Mad_as_heck
(The MSM - America's (domestic) public enemy #1.)
To: onyx
The flames you lit in life, will consume you in hell, Samuel Bowers. The devil's in the details. R.I.H.
20
posted on
11/05/2006 9:08:46 PM PST
by
Chena
("I'm not young enough to know everything." (Oscar Wilde))
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