CAPrION GUIDANCE - SATURDAY EVENING .P08r
PHC11'OGRAPHER,
Ollie Atkins
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ARTICLE TITIE:
KKK
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North Carolina
Dec., 1965
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Mr. and Mrs. James R. Jones in front of their modest home here in
Granite Quarry, N.C.
Various shots of Grand Dragon of the KKK in North Carolina Mr. James R••
Jones.
Young Negroes with white man in Klan area filling station near
Farmville, N.C. The white man probably is a Klansman but he would not
tell or give his name.
Exalted Cyclops Raymond Cranford in his car. Note pistol and belt of
ammunition on the console beside his drivers r seat; in some shots he is
on short wave citizens r band radio. Door just behind him has a rifle with
XxBi te1esoopic sight and is mounted to side of door(see other pix for this
shot.
Extreme wide angle shots of a fantastic debate bewteen Negro civil righters
and Raymond Cranford ' of the Klan. The left to right in frame *33 (from
this one which includes everyone you can determine the In of the other shots)
are clockwise: Exalted Cyclops Raymond Cranford (in light swea'ber and back to
camera; Dr. Andrew Best -(MD); Stewart Alsop; Cordell Kennedy of the Southern
Christian Leadership Confr.; Tommy Bond also of the So. Chr. Leadr. Confr.;
and Gratz Norcott, local undertaker and leader in the local NAACP. Aayden,N.C.
Situation is same as described in C-2 (13-33) but single shot of
Cordell Kennedy of the So. Christian Leadership Confr.;
Local undertaker and NAACP Leader Gratz Noroott.
Cordell Kennedy of the So. Christian Leadership oonfr.
Local undertaker and NAACP Leader Gratz Norcott.
Dr. Andrew Be st (MD).
Inside a part of the Klavern Hall of the Knights of the KKK at Farmville,
N.C., is Sonny Fisher with coffin in what is called the outer dea;
Exterior of what used to be an old Negro school but is now the Klavern
Hall of the Knights of the KKK at Farmville.
Grand Dragon of the United Klans of America in North Carolina James R.
Jones with his wife in front of Cadillac given to him by the state rs
Klansmen and in, front of his very modest home at Granite Quarry, N.C.
Inside the modest home of Grand Dragon James R. Jones--this is the living
room. Left to ri~ht: Grand Dragon James R. Jones; Col. of the Security
Guard Grady Mars (he killed himself the next day)and Pet e Young of a
Raleigh TV station.
Vann Ray Cranford (9) is playing record entitled "Move Those Niggers
North".
This is in the home of the Exalted Cyclops. In some frames
a second little kid is Forst Lanier Littleton (15 mos), the son of another
Exalted Cyclops from near by Ayden, N.C.
This is the Cranford residence
which is near Farmville, N.C.
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In the Cranford living room: Left to right: Stewart Alsop (hand to hea.);
Pete Young (standing in background) Ted Ellsworth and Exalted Cyclops Raymond
Cranford.
more
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CA.PrION GUIDANCE - SATURDAY EVENING POSt
ARTICLE TITlE:
page two
Ollie Atkins
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KKK
DESCRIPl'ION OF PHOTOS,
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Dec., 1965
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Various shots of pistols and rifles being shown in the Cranford living room.
Left to right is stewart Alsop and Ted Ellsworth (Stew r s assistant); The man
sitting down with dark suit on is Exalted Cyolops Raymond Cranford and the
fellow demonstrating the guns is Exalted Cyolops Robert Littleton of
Ayden, N.C.
Dressed up in his KKK outfit is Exalted Cyclops Raymond Cranford who is
showing it to Stewart Alsop in most frames and Alsop and his aide Ted
Ellsworth in frames 32 & 33.
This is Harry Richards of Harry r s restaurant at Snow Hill, N.C.
He
runs the best restaurant in the area and refuses to servi Negroes.
Negro ohildren picketing Piggly Wiggly super market in Ayden.
Studies of Exalted Cyolops Raymond Cranford.
Various shots of Exalted Cyolops Raymond Cranford (in .KKK outfit) and
Bennie Earl Oakes (in KKK security guard outfit) on the porch at the
Cranford home and with a bunch of toys the looal Klavern intended to
hand out to underpr1viledged ohildren for Xmas.
Exalted Cyclops Raymond Cranford in his KKK dress and KKK Security Guard
Bennie Earl Oakes in his guard outfit.
EC Cranford in his outfit.
Bennie Earl Oakes in his security guard outfit.
Exalted Cyclops Raymond Cranford and 58-years-old Negro Cliff Harper,
a family retainer for 35 years. "Illl kill anyone messing with him,"
said Cranford.
This is IClansman James Huey "Sonny" Fisher having 6raakfast with
Stewart Allep and party in Farmville, N.C.
This is Klansman James HIley (Sonny) Fisher on the sidewalk in downtown
Farmville, N.C.
Ted Ellsworth dressed in KKK outfit with Raymond Cranford in shirt and tie
and Stew Alsop seated in frame 13.
Ellsworth was just horsing it up.
Interior showing the alter of navarn unit #161 at Ormandsville, N.C.
Alsop, Ellsworth and Cranford are in background.
Time exposures of the same room as in 4-5 showing oross lighted.
Exalted Cyclops Raymond Cranford in Klavern t161 with Klavern mottos
on signs hanging on wall in background ,
Exalted Cyolops Cranford demonstrates some of his judo technique for Alsop
and Ellsworth inside navern 1161.
General view of the bleakness of Klavem 161--eranford. Alsop, et.c , , in backgrnd,
General view of Klavern hall in Ayden, N.C. At left is open casket; alter is
in center where flags and cross is; this is pretty typical of interior of
a Klavern hall.
EC Robert Littleton of the Ayden klavern sets the Bible on the alter.
Blackboard with sayings at the Ayden Klavern.
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