Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: GENTRY, GLYDE B. JR.
Document date: 11/24/1963
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD_NUMBER: 124-10173-10489

RECORD_SERIES: TP

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62-455-177

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

TO:

: TITLE:

GENTRY. GLYDE B. JR.

DATE: 11/24/1963

PAGES: 5

SUBJECT:

JFK, CONTACT, KKK

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

REVIEW DATE:

09/24/1997

STATUS Redact

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE:

02/12/2001

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (4)

COMMENTS:

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Cover Sheet for Informant Report or

arial

FD-306 (3-21-58)

Date received

Received from (name or symbol number)

Received by

11/27/63

(RAC)

Method of delivery (check

appropriate blocks)

# in person

_by telephone

SA GLYDE B. GENTRY, JR.

by mail

orally

• recording device

X written by Informant

If orally furnished and reduced to writing by

Agent:

Date

Dictated

Date of Report

11/24/63

Date(s) of activity

Transcribed

Authenticated

by Informant

11/23/63

Brief description of activity of material

Public rally of UFKKK, Highway 92, Plant

City, Fla.e 11/23/63. Grand Dragon names

File where original is located If not atiached

C. L. BENEFIELD, Grand Klaliff.

TP 137-6A-546

Remarks:

COPIES

1 - FBI Jacksonville (RM)

•- 157-162 (Plant City)

- 157-281

(HOGUE)

-

157-433

(LUMLEY)

157-259

(JACK BAKER)

1572435

157-274

(DAN WOODS)

(HAWKINS)

157-254

(PULLIAM)

1

- 137-153

1187-99 SES)

157-96 (SHEFFIELD)

157-502 (M. GASHAW)

- 157-508 (V. GASHAW)

+ 157-504 (A. TEMPLE).

- 137-765

1

157-381

(MC LEAN)

157-894 (TURNER)

62-455 (KENNEDY ASSASSINATION)

- 137-89

(COPIES CONTINUED PAGE 2)

GBG-Cls

(33)

ACTION

I.

Index into 157-162:

(FNU) POPE

LARRY FOX

(FNU) BUTTRUM

J. T. OGLE

•2.

Index to 157-165:

SCOTT KELLY, Fla. Senator

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HERE!:: i

ASSIP Er

USE REGISTERED MAIL

Block Stamp

62-455-177

SEARCHED

_INDEXED.

SERIALIZED,

/ FILEDA

DEC1 7 1963

FBI - TAMPA

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TP 137-75A-223

COPIES (Continued)

1

- 157-754 (CAPPS)

"1

= 157-386 (SMITH)

- 157-380 . (HENDERSON)

:1 - 157-796

(J. JOHNS)

•1"- 157-795

(H. JOHNS)

1

÷ 157-385

(J. SUTTON) -

-1 - 157-938 (D. HICKMAN)

1 - 157-8 (J. L. HARRISON)

Hwn

157-936

(J.

WATKINS

157-8 (BENEFIELD)

157-968

(KKK)

157-165

(Lake

Wales)

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NOTE: Informant's report is set forth herein exactly as received

except for corrections in spelling and grammar.

Lakeland, Fla.

November

24, 1963

On November 23, 1963, there was a public klan

speaking and cross burning two miles east of Plant City

on Highway 92.

This rally was sponsored by the Plant City unit

of the United Florida Ku Klux Klan.

There were about 350

present at this rally. There were about 50 robed klansmen

at the meeting.

Those

recognized were:

From Plant City

GARY HOGUE

H. V. LUMLEY

JACK BAKER

DAN (RED) WOODS

J. G. HAWKINS

FNU POPE

WAYNE HICKEY

ALTON PULLIAM (Formerly of Tampa)

MORRIS TAYLOR (Also)

W. O. RYALS (AlSO)

From Lakeland

0. V. BOATWRIGHT

н.

J.

B. O'STEEN

T.

OGLE

C. L. SHEFFIELD

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

LASSIFIED

DATE 2193 BY 4803 R$D ISR

From Haines City

MARLIN GASHAW

VIRGIL GASHAW

ALBERT TEMPLE

From Dade City

LARRY FOX

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FNU BUTTRUM

FNU DEFBAUGH

From Lake Wales

GENE MC LEAN

EUGENE TURNER

CARL CAPPS

From Auburndale, Fla.

A. C. SMITH

C. 0. HENDERSON

JACK JOHNS

HERCHEL JOHNS

JAMES SUTTON

DEWEY HICKMAN

JACK WATKINS

JASON KERSEY (Grand Dragon)

AL MASSEY

FNU NOUCE (PHONETIC) Known as "The Crusader"

J. L. HARRISON, of Palmetto, Fla.

FNU O'PRY

The rally was opened with a prayer by O'PRY. There

were three speakers and three crosses were burnd..

The first to speak was O'PRY and be said the klan

needed everyone

, to help with the fight to keep Negroes

from mixing with the white children and mixing of all kinds.

He told of chasing a Negro from a store near his home until

he (O'PRY) was through buying his groceries. He challenged

any preacher to face him and tell him it is God's will to

integrate. O'PRY introduced FNU NOUCE as the next speaker.

NOUCE has spoken at several klan rallies and he said

he understands the way the Southern people feel about mixing.

* ay ten

There was not much said about the death of JACK

KENNEDY, but it was said the klan was not to run him down,

but his stands on integration would be talked about.

JASON KERSEY told the group the United Florida Ku

Klux Klan is a part of the real klans and is not an outlaw

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