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Jeffery Lynn Berry (c. 1949 – May 31, 2013) was the leader of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Newville, Indiana. He was sentenced to seven years in prison on December 4, 2001, for conspiracy to commit criminal confinement with a deadly weapon.
Jun 7, 2013 · Jeffery Lynn Berry, who once headed the largest Ku Klux Klan group in the United States, often called the “bully-boy Klan,” died of lung cancer on May 31 at a hospital in Cook County, Ill., authorities confirmed today. He was 64 and most recently had been living in Kankakee, Ill.
In 1999, when Berry was at the height of his power as national leader of the Indiana-based American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, then the largest Klan group in the country, he bluntly told the Intelligence Report: “We use the hate speech. Sometimes you have to, to get a point across.”
Jun 13, 2013 · The former head of the once-largest Ku Klux Klan organization in the country, Berry, 60, died May 31 at a hospital in Cook County, Ill. According to a group called Hatewatch, which operates...
Mar 15, 2000 · The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a federal lawsuit in January against Jeff Berry, the national leader of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, alleging that Berry falsely imprisoned and assaulted two Kentucky journalists.
Jun 13, 2013 · CHICAGO (AP) — Jeffery Lynn Berry, who as leader of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan led racially charged marches on town squares, has died at age 60. Cook County clerk's office...
Jun 16, 2013 · CHICAGO — Jeffery Lynn Berry, who as leader of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan led marches on town squares that cost municipalities thousands of dollars in security costs, has died at...