New Evidence-Sen. Robert Byrd [D-WVA] May Have Been Klan Member 'Well Past' 1943

Newsmax.com ^ | January 22, 2003 | Carl Limbacher

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Coming Wednesday to Newsmax.com:

Evidence surfaces that Former President Pro Tem of the United States Senate Robert Byrd may have been a member of the Klu Klux Klan 'well past' 1943 , the year he maintained he resigned from the notorious hate group.

[Responsible for 6 lynchings while the Senator was a member, one near his home state in Georgia]

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Developing today, the teaser is in Freeper Kevin Martins protest article on Robert Byrd in the left news corner.

[wimpycat]

Byrd was actually born in NC and when he was orphaned he went to live with relatives in WV. What's this about his home state of Georgia?

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[Tacis]

This would be of concern to the left wing media only if Kleagle Byrd switched to the Republican party.

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There was reasearch done by Newsmax.com of old newspaper articles to see if Byrd participated in any lynchings/hate crimes while he was a member of the Klan.

The archives came up with 6 in that time frame the closest to North Carolina/West Virginia being Georgia.

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Exactamundo.

[Treebeard]

Yeah, his birth name was Cornelius Calvin Sale, ran across him in some genealogy I've been doing on the Sale family of North Carolina. IIRC, the 1918 flu epidemic did his parents in and he was adopted.

[votelife]

great idea. WILL DO!

[expatpat]

"There will never be a Negro on the US Supreme Court, I can guarantee you that. Mr. [Thurgood] Marshall holds views which our dangerous to this nation and our posterity. I know a group of Senators, who, like myself...will hold up his confirmation vote for months if we have to." --Senator Robert C. Byrd, June 1967

He certainly was aligned with them as late as 1967.

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And still he has never apologized for it in 37 years of public life.

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How late was he still a member 1950.. 1960!!??

[nycgal]

the 1918 flu epidemic did his parents in and he was adopted

How old is Byrd? If his parents died in 1918, he is at least 85 years old.

[far sider]

"There will never be a Negro on the US Supreme Court, I can guarantee you that. Mr. [Thurgood] Marshall holds views which our dangerous to this nation and our posterity. I know a group of Senators, who, like myself...will hold up his confirmation vote for months if we have to." --Senator Robert C. Byrd, June 1967

I see Dem tactics haven't changed, have they?

[ZULU]

"...a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."

He must be referring to a typical DemoCRAPic politician.

[metesky]

Mr. [Thurgood] Marshall holds views which our dangerous to this nation and our posterity.

Even a stopped watch...

[MJY1288]

"I see Dem tactics haven't changed, have they?

Just ask Clarance Thomas if you have any doubts :-)

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I guess I was just counting Washington.