In hindsight, it was a very bad idea for the Salt Lake Tribune to publish this "both sides" whitewashed story about the rising KKK in Utah. Salt Lake City Tribune, 16 March 1981. 
For example, there was no "Israel Cohen" who was an English Communist who said this. This was just pure fabrication that had been circulating in far right circles for years when the Salt Lake Tribune just printed it as if Mr. Hammond was telling the truth about anything.
In their defense, they also printed this piece in the same paper that was, I assume, intended to be a counterweight to that KKK stenography piece. But still we are asked, KKK: terrorists or just a social club?
"But they all seem like such good guys! Can they really be so bad, just because they advocate for the interests of white people?"
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