my son was killed. there are so many mothers and fathers whose child has been murdered, and noone ever heard about them. they are the nameless and they are the faceless, but their pain is the same. when the trials started, i didn t go to the trials. i never went to any of the trials, because at that point, i don t know what was going on with my body, but i had gotten so 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 mom was worried about me. she said, are you all right? because i dropped so much weight in so little a 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
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been framed by the communists. because a communist don t pick, only if you re in their way. right now, i m in their way. i m the one they re picking on. to get to me, they got my son. how could a klansman living on a rundown farm in a rural part of mobile country come up with the money to hire one of the best defense attorneys around? when these two klansmen were identified as killers, the old man, bennie jack hays, he hired a klansman to burn his house down so he could hire a prominent attorney to defend his son in the state trial. he did burn the house. he got an insurance settlement. he used that to pay the lawyer for his son, henry hays. bennie jack hays raised enough money to hire one of the best criminal lawyers, m.a.