Killing King
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Larry Hancock. Killing King
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To our families,
who inspire us in our search for truth and answers
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This is because the FBI accepted Eure’s claims of innocence and ignorance without a qualm. They arranged a cursory follow-up investigation at Leavenworth, and did not even bother to interview McManaman until months after the King assassination, even after John May corroborated parts of Donald Nissen’s story. A respectable Southern woman like Eure, they reasoned, would not involve herself in anything like a KKK murder conspiracy. On one level this observation dovetailed with history: women played an important support role for the KKK but they almost never participated in acts of terrorism or assumed positions of leadership. But the FBI, once again, underestimated Sam Bowers. At the very moment the FBI visited Sybil Eure,23 Sam Bowers was planning yet another way around the FBI’s non-stop surveillance, and it included employing a Jackson woman, Kathy Ainsworth, among a team of terrorists.
The choice to use Ainsworth as a terrorist starting in 1967 was a stroke of evil genius. An attractive young elementary schoolteacher, she did not fit any of the stereotypes usually assigned to Klan members, allowing her to keep her terrorist activities hidden even from a vigilant FBI. But Ainsworth embraced racial and ethnic resentment as stridently as anyone who ever burnt down a black church or attacked a civil rights protestor. Raised by a virulently racist single mother, Margaret Capomacchia, Ainsworth was mentored in white supremacy by Sidney Crockett Barnes, a vile bigot who fled Florida to Mobile, Alabama, after a law enforcement crackdown on racial violence. Barnes did not stop his support for terrorism, becoming part of a failed 1963–1964 plot against Martin Luther King Jr.’s life that will be detailed in the next chapter. Both Barnes and Margaret Capomacchia enjoyed close connections to Klansmen in Mississippi, and Barnes sent his daughter to college there, with Kathy as her roommate.24 Kathy later joined the Americans for the Preservation of the White Race in Mississippi, a front group for the Mississippi White Knights, but privately worked closely with both the White Knights and the United Klans of America. She even kept her militant associations secret from her husband, a man Sidney Barnes, the surrogate father who gave her away at her wedding, did not approve of as her spouse. Barnes wished Kathy had married someone else: a like-minded extremist, Thomas Albert Tarrants III.25
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