The President of the United States threatens The Klan.

The Prompt Reply and Response that was given to U.S. President LBJ.

March 5th. 1965

Imperial Wizard Samuel H. Bowers

White Knights of Mississippi Ku Klux Klan

"Lyndon Johnson, President of the United States, attacked one of the most patriotic organizations in this great land. He warned every Klansman to get out of the Ku Klux Klan and to join a "decent" society for the Klan was going to be investigated and destroyed.



Lyndon Johnson, we know that we are not a perfect organization. We have a few misfits just as surely as there has been a misfit recently elected President of the United States. We do not advocate murder in any form for any cause, yet you condemn an entire organization for the actions of a few and they have yet to be proven guilty. We do not condemn everyone in the Democratic Party for your actions, Lyndon Johnson.



No, Lyndon, you are wrong about the Ku Klux Klan. You can no more destroy us than you can destroy the heavens or the oceans. Even with all your ill-gotten and ill-used Power, the Left Wing News Media, the N.A.A.C.P., C.O.R.E. and all of the other Communistic and Socialistic rabble rousers, we will survive. For while there is a flicker of life in one true Klansman, the Klan will never die.



It is you, Lyndon Johnson, that has turned his back on the white people of this country, not the Ku Klux Klan. It is you, Lyndon Johnson, who should join a "decent" society. It was you, Lyndon Johnson, that expressed shock and anger when an agitator was killed in Alabama. You even telephoned your sympathy to her family. Yet when a White Law Officer is murdered by Niggers in Mississippi you did not see fit to mention it or telephone his widow. Were you not shocked and angered by this, Lyndon? Where is your sense of "decency"?



So bring on your investigations, Lyndon. We have nothing to fear, for we know that ours is a just cause. Our fight is for Racial Integrity and Constitutional Government. Are we fighting for too much, Lyndon? The Klan will disband when every Communist and Integrationist is driven from our shores. We will fight with every means at our disposal, at the Ballot Box, in the Swamps, or in the Hills, if necessary, for we shall never surrender. THIS IS OUR ANSWER!"

 

KU KLUX KLAN


 

Samuel Holloway Bowers

 Imperial Wizard

A Top-Secret Guerilla Organization

"In Mississippi, Sam Holloway Bowers headed one of the most militant Klans ever to ride across the Southland: the White Knights, a top-secret guerilla organization. The White Knights, under the dynamic leadership of Bowers, found themselves fighting the resources of the other forty-nine States. The FBI (known in Mississippi as the Federal Bureau of Integration), federal marshals, and, finally, the U.S. Army were all used to quell the citizens of Mississippi who fought for their culture and the right to govern themselves (self-determination)."

- A Brief History of the Klan by Louis Beam

Pawns Instead of Kings

"In retrospect, things can be seen quite differently than they were by the Klansmen of Mississippi in 1962. Fighting the battle as they saw it then, the vast majority of their efforts were directed against the visible and obvious threats to their culture and way of life - the Negro and white-Jewish civil rights "Freedom Riders" (as they were erroneously called). Had the efforts of the Mississippi Klan, as well as those of the Klans in other States, been directed against the less obvious but controlling forces behind this concerted drive against civilization, the outcome might have been different. F.B.I. special agents, federal marshals, Justice Department "monitors" and attorneys, federal registrars, federal troops, apostate white "religious leaders", scalawag politicians, Jewish financiers and organizational leaders, and pseudo-intellectual propagators of the so-called civil rights movement were, unfortunately and regrettably, virtually immune to much needed and deserved punishment. Had these culture distorters and destroyers suffered the righteous indignation of the Mississippi patriots, the powers behind the "civil rights" perversion might have soon considered it too expensive (in terms of their lives) to have continued. In sum, while the tactics used against these perverters were correct, the strategy was incorrect - to the extent that it did not go far enough.

This after-the-battle analysis (the war goes on) is in no way meant to detract from the heroic efforts of the Mississippi Klan. Rather, it is instructional, as in a game of chess - the victory is not won by removing the enemy's pawns. Many years after the battles of the 1960's, when the luxury of time and hindsight are available, many Klansmen, and, embarrassingly, many Klan leaders continue to make this same error! Those who do not know history or perhaps, as might be the case, do not understand it, are condemned by their ignorance or lack of perceptiveness to repeat its mistakes - someting the movement can ill-afford." 

- A Brief History of the Klan by Louis Beam