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Aug 9, 2019 · Robert Byrd wasn’t a Grand Wizard of the KKK but he once led a local chapter. An old photograph of former Vice President Joe Biden has been circulating online as some social media users...
Oct 7, 2020 · Social media users have been sharing content online that claims Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden eulogized Robert Byrd, asserting he was the grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)....
Jun 30, 2010 · Robert Byrd, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, died Monday at 92. While he was most famous as a master of the Senate’s obscure rules, Byrd wore many hats during his lifetime,...
Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr.; November 20, 1917 – June 28, 2010) was an American politician and musician who served as a United States senator from West Virginia for over 51 years, from 1959 until his death in 2010.
May 17, 2022 · As late as 1946, Byrd wrote to the Klan’s Grand Wizard: “The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation.”. Running for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1952, Byrd worked to distance himself from his Klan activities.
Jun 28, 2019 · The 2008 photograph shows Biden with Robert Byrd, a West Virginia senator who was during the 1940s a member and organizer for the Ku Klux Klan.
Oct 10, 2020 · Biden did eulogize Sen. Robert C. Byrd when he died, but Byrd was not a “grand wizard” in the Ku Klux Klan. He was a member of the KKK in the early 1940s but later renounced his affiliation with the hate group.
Jun 17, 2020 · Social media users have been sharing a photograph online and claiming that it shows Senator Robert Byrd as the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The photograph does not portray Byrd.
Jun 14, 2020 · A widely shared image on social media claims Joe Biden is pictured with Robert Byrd, a grand wizard of the KKK. Byrd was in the KKK but not that post.
Sep 28, 2017 · In late 1941 or early 1942, Byrd—then a young butcher in Crab Orchard, W.Va.—wrote a letter to Dr. Samuel Green of Atlanta, Ga., the Klan’s “Imperial Wizard.” Byrd begged the Wizard to make him a Klansman.
