 a staffer at Pacifica Radio's WBAI and a native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who recorded a Ku Klux Klan meeting for a landmark Pacifica documentary in 1964. We also have C.P. Ellis, a former exalted cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan in Durham, North Carolina, who described in 1996 the circumstances of his background growing up hopeful and optimistic in a poor working-class family and how circumstances led him to the Klan.