little. and the doctor said what i was doing was not eating. and i think that what it was, i didn t want anything to eat. but i had got so small, my ma was worried about me. she said, are you all right? because i dropped so much weight in so little time. our top story, the henry hays trial. hays admits that he s a member of the ku klux klan. now, he s being tried on charges of capital murder, charges that could send him to the electric chair, if convicted of killing a young black man, michael donald. the two or three times that i paid any attention to henry, he appeared to be scared to death, justifiably so, cause the ship was sinking. every witness that i put on was another nail in his coffin. when tiger knowles told the story, i think everybody was just so amazed, cause if it hadn t been for him, we never
friday abduction of michael donald. three days before michael donald s murder, we had a private meeting, which we would have every wednesday for just klan members. bob eddy knew who was at that klan meeting tiger knowles, frank cox, teddy kyzar, henry hays, and bennie hays, the second highest ranking klansman in the state of alabama. bennie hays is the great titan, which is the third highest ranking official in the united klan. bennie jack hays was a hard-nosed business man. he could drop a dime in his pocket and pull out a quarter. bennie jack was a very detailed man. he was pure evil when he set his mind to it. henry hays was bennie hays son. he was a lifetime member. he was secretary treasurer.
tiger knowles and hays were the product of the people and the organization they associated with. they wanted to please bennie jack hays. and they wanted to make him understand that they would do whatever it takes to further the klan. it seemed to me that bennie jack hays had control over whatever they did. he could have said, look, i don t want you to go out and do anything. i don t think they would have. they did it with his blessing. bennie hays was a tyrant, and henry was deathly afraid of him. but henry always tried to please his father. and it just never seemed to be good enough. get it off me, son of a [bleep]! get it off! mr. hays probably told him, oh, we can do this and nothing will be done to us.
he collected the dues and the minutes and stuff like that. he was a holdover from the late 60s. he was doing his best to be a hippie. he loved to smoke dope. he d do any drug he could get his hands on. henry was a very lovable young man. but he made sure to please daddy. and if daddy caught on to some of the stuff he was doing, his daddy would discipline harsh. it would usually come down to beatings. even in his adult life, he let his daddy do to him what he wanted to. tiger knowles was an entrepreneur on the equal of bennie jack hays. he was very ambitious. he had his hands in everything. if he could make a dollar, by golly, he was going after it. at 17, i was a regional officer in the klan for south alabama. but, yeah, i was the second in command. i aspired to be the grand dragon of the state. i thought it would give me political contacts, and that s what i was looking for.
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