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Public service brought to you today by your television provider. Host hello, edward ball. Its a delight to meet you try to good to see you. Host i feel like i know you from reading life of a klansman. Its an intimate. Want to thank you for writing it. Im going to dive in. You received an emotional inheritance from your aunt maud. Tell the audience what it was, the physical inheritance and the family lore. Guest when i was a boy in new orleans in the late 1960s i had an named maud. She was an elderly retired schoolteacher and she was the family historian in my mothers family. We were all in new orleans and she was the keeper of the lore of, among others, our klansmen. And she had some papers and files and she had a way of speaking about our Family History that was like this. The one to remember is our klansmen, my grandfather, constant lecorgne, because he was a redeemer, and the retention returned white people to authority in new orleans after they had been dislodged by the negroes. An
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