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sane” -~ sm, interfered with performance of the duties of law enforcement officials ander the injunction in Hicks v. Knight. (10) duly 11, 1965, during & hegre march in downtown Eogaiusa, d2fendants Randle Pounds, Klanasman, H. A. Goings, dr., Klanzman, F.ranklin Harris, Klansman, and Milton E. Parker were present. Harris and Goings passed out 25-30 2x2 clubs to youths and Pounds stationed the youths along the march route. Parker was arrested by a City policeman along the route of march for aisburbing the peace. (11) Included in the exhibits are a number of handbiils bearing the caption, "Published by the Original Ku Klux Klan of Louisiana", these are crude, serrileus attacks on certain Bogalusa citizens who advocated a moderate approach to desegregation. For example, in one handbill an Episcopal minister is accused of lying for having said that he had received calls threatening to bomb his church; the minister's son is said to ba an Rleohoelic, to have faced a morals charge in court, and to have been committed to a mental institution. The handbill. adds: - “The Ku Klux Klan is now in tne process of checking on Reverend ‘s [naming him] moral standards. If he is cleared you will be so informed. If he is not cleared, you will be informed ci any and all misdeeds or moral violation of his in the past.” In the same handbill the Klan announced tnat it was “boycotting businesses which cater to integration such as Mobile Gas Stations, etc." MobilgpGas Station is a business competitor of the defendant, Grand Titan Saxon Farmer. ALL of the handbills attempt to intimidate public officials, ~~ the Governo: of Louisiana, the Congressman from the Sixth District, ~~. the -ayor of Bogalusa, and federal judges (by name). Sometimes the atte: pted iitimidation is by threat of violence, sometimes by -1g- ~~