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Title	Wife says couple joined Klan group in ignorance
Date	1979-11-06
Creator	Schlosser, Jim
Biographical/historical note	Jim Schlosser was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, on January 5, 1943. He graduated from Page High School in 1961 and later attended Guilford College, earning a degree in English in 1965. After a brief stint in University of North Carolina’s School of Journalism, he enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve, serving six months of active duty. Upon his return to Greensboro in 1967, he was hired by the Greensboro Record, for whom he covered feature stories regarding political rallies and local racial unrest. Schlosser has received several journalism awards and other honors, including the first Unsung Hero Award presented by the Joseph M. Bryan Foundation in 2004, and the Alumni Excellence Award from Guilford College in 1997.
Subject headings	Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, N.C., 1979
Topics	Greensboro Massacre, 1979
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	This November 6, 1979, article by Jim Schlosser of the Greensboro Record, the wife of a defendant in the shooting of five members of the Communist Workers Party (CWP) at an anti-Klan rally in Greensboro on November 3, 1979, states that she and her husband joined the Klan innocently and that her husband is innocent of murder. Karen Clinton, wife of Michael Eugene Clinton, states that the couple attended a KKK gathering out of youthful curiosity and fear of communism, and says that her husband was not a participant in the shootings, but ran and hid when the violence began.
Type	Text
Original format	clippings
Original publisher	Greensboro, N.C. : Greensboro Daily News
Language	en
Contributing institution	Greensboro History Museum
Source collection	Misc. Coll. -- James A. Armfield Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse.
Object ID	GHM_Misc. Coll.JArmfield.1260
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
Sponsor	LSTA grant administered by the North Carolina State Library -- http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ld/grants/lsta.html
OCLC number	884367535

Wife says couple joined Klan group in ignorance

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