confederate veterans proposed the license plate. they say it has nothing to do with forest being the first grand wizard of the kkk. no, other than that forest was just really a swell guy. well, let me tell you about nathan bedford forest, southern gentleman. he became a self-made man by selling other men. that's right. he was a slave trader. he whipped his slaves personally. the women he reportedly had stripped naked before lashing them with a whip soaked in salt water. during the war, he shot anyone he thought was a desserter including a boy. a boy who turned out to be innocent. see this illustration it appeared in harper's weekly may 21st, 1864. after a union general revealed that forest personally shot a free black civilian worker, working for the union. and let me tell you about