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<> Jeoked into 150 pairs of eyes". ers fone } D. Spetific Findings o7 Klean ttinidation and Violence. We select the following examples of the defendants sacts of intimi- © _ dation anc violence. {1) January 7, 1965, former Congressman Brooks Hays of Arkansas, at the invitation of religious, business, and civic letders Ssem Bogalusa, was scheduled to speak in Bogalusa at St. Matthews Episcopal Church Parish House on the subject of 4 - 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 protestec to the Mayor and the members of the Commission Council and, by means of threats of civil dis- order and economic retaliation against local businessmen who supported the meeting, caused the witncrawal of the invitation to Mr. Hays to speak. Decenber 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 the Hays invita- tion was withdrawn, the Mayor of Bogalusa and Police Commissioner Arnold Spiers, in an effort to head eff possible civil disorder, snow of force at this meeting by over 150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 (2} Since at least January 25, 1965, the defendants, “ineluding Saxon Farmer, Russell Mecec, 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-