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nee” D. Specific Findings of Klan ttimidation and Violence. We select the following examples of the defendants’ }acts of intimi- _ @ation anc violence. — . eee (1) January 7, 1965, former Congressman Brooks Hays of Arkansas, at the invitation of religious, business, and civic lezders Sxem Bogalusa, was scheduled tc speak in Bogalusa at St. Matthews Episcopal Church Parish House on the subject of - community relations. The meeting was to be open to both Negroes , and whites and it was planned that seating would be on a racially | -non-segregated basis. After learning of the proposed appearance of Mr. Hays and the arrangements for an unsegregated meeting, the Klan and its members protested to the Mayor and the members of the Commission Council and, by means of threats of civil die- order and economic retaliation against local businessmen who supported the meeting, caused the withcrawal of the invitation to Mr. Hays to speak. December 18, 1964, before the Hays invita- tion was withdrawn, the Mayor of Bogalusa and Police Commissioner Arnold Spiers, in an effort to head eff possible civil disorder, ‘appeared at a Klan meeting at the Disabled Veterans Hall. The . snow of force at this meeting by over 150 hooded Klansmen unquestionably intimidated public officials in Bogalusa and, later, hindered effective police action against Klan violence. On the stand, Mavor Cutrer admitted that he was “frightened when he ** Ieoked_into 150 pairs of eyes". (2}. Since at least January 28, 1965, the defendants, “ineluding Saxon Farmer, Russell Macee, Dewey Smith, Randle C. Pounds, Billy Alford, Charles McClendon, James Surke, and other members of the defendant Klan, have made a practice of going to places where -13.