Stetson Kennedy - author & activist who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan during the 1940s. He supplied their their secret codes and rituals to the writers of the wildly popular Superman radio show, who used them in their plots... stunning KKK members & humiliating them across the nation. Kennedy was named for a member of his mothers family, the hatter John Batterson Stetson.[1] As a teenager, he began collecting folklore material while seeking a dollar down and dollar a week accounts for his father, a furniture merchant. While a student at the University of Florida, Kennedy befriended one of his professors, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.[2] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stetson_Kennedy
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