From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Confederate flags
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 14:13:46 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

	There was an editorial in _The Daily Mississippian_, the student
newspaper of the University of Mississippi, but I don't think that's what
you mean because that was the usual we-don't-like-the-Klan stuff.  _The
Commercial-Appeal_ telephoned the office of the student governments of
various colleges, interviewed people by fone, and wrote their article from
those interviews.  That article was the one that created the distinction
between the University where the Klan stayed away and the other schools
where the Klan came a-recruiting.  I don't recall the headline of the
article.  I can't prove cause and effect but it was significant that the
Klan stayed away from the one place where we threatened their hearts rather
than their chins.  The time period was 1975 or 1976.
	_The WSFA Journal_ article was tied to the contemporary Louisiana
gobernatorial election and WSFA officers' election that occured during the
first Bush Administration and during my Secretaryship.  The front page
headline was "Election Winners Prove Fannish, Not Klannish."  Don't know if
that issue was placed on line.
	You might want to google on _The Daily Mississippian_ or _The
Commercial-Appeal_.

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Smith [mailto:sgs at aginc.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 1:16 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Confederate flags

"Strong, Lee" wrote:
>
>         Oh, yes.  I was involved.  I know the details.  How do you want
> them, and how many of them do you want?  The critical documents were a
> telephone call and a news article in the Memphis, Tennessee
> Commercial-Appeal.

I heard that the original was in a student publication in Mississippi.
Such is memory.  Perhaps the Commercial-Appeal republished it?  If it is
online, I'd like a pointer.  Googling on some obvious items producded
nothing earlier than 1995.

>  The WSFA Journal published an article on the subject
> several years ago under the title of "David Duke and the Fan", which,
among
> other things showed the influence of Robert Heinlein on the whole
incident.

Is it in one of the Journals that's on line?

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