But Burros was about to be toppled from his fascist pedestal.
On Oct. 20, 1965, the House Committee on Un-American Activities named him as a grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan who recently had been appointed chief organizer for the hate group’s New York branch.
A government agent aware of his Jewish birth leaked the explosive intelligence to The New York Times, and on Halloween 1965, the paper published a front-page exposé: “State Klan Leader Hides Secret of Jewish Origin.”
The day the story hit newsstands, Burros was staying in the Reading, Pa., apartment of Roy E. Frankhouser Jr., the 25-year-old grand dragon of the Pennsylvania Klan. Also there were Frankhouser’s girlfriend and another Klansman, Frank W. Rotella, Jr., the king kleagle of the New Jersey KKK, police said.
Rotella told police that Burros went out to get the paper and returned to the apartment agitated. “This will destroy me!” Burros yelled, then ran upstairs and shot himself.
Frankhouser said, “If Burros was really Jewish, it was the best-kept secret since the atom bomb.”
Can somebody please explain to me why the kkk had such a weird, idiotic sounding name and why they had titles like ‘grand dragon’ and ‘king kleagle’, what was all that about?
Ffffqqq on January 31st, 2022 at 16:36 UTC »
He was a rising Nazi leader — until a shocking secret did him in
Albertjweasel on January 31st, 2022 at 17:01 UTC »
Can somebody please explain to me why the kkk had such a weird, idiotic sounding name and why they had titles like ‘grand dragon’ and ‘king kleagle’, what was all that about?
Semi-Pro-Lurker on January 31st, 2022 at 17:30 UTC »
Can't say he didn't stand by his principles.