Federal Bureau of Investigation St. Augustine Surveillance Files, 1963-1967.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation St. Augustine Surveillance Files, 1963-1967.

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The collection contains FBI surveillance records and memoranda arranged chronologically from 1963-1967 with the bulk of the collection covering 1964. Of particular interest are records of a violent Ku Klux Klan rally in September 1963, the attempted murder of local civil rights leader Robert B. Hayling, and the arrest of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Monson's Motor Lodge in June 1964. Sit-ins, beach wade-ins, and night marches are also covered in the reports. The collection also contains a telegram from Robert F. Kennedy pertaining to a particularly violent KKK rally and correspondence from then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. The following people are prominently featured in this collection: Farris Bryant (Governor of Florida 1960-1965), L.O. Davis (St. John's County Sheriff), Goldie Eubanks (Reverend and local civil rights leader), Dr. Robert B. Hayling (Local civil rights leader), Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Holstead R. "Hoss" Manucy (Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan), Joseph Shelley (Mayor of St. Augustine 1963-1965), Judge Bryan J. Simpson, and J.B. Stoner (Imperial Wizard of the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan).

0.5 linear feet. (1 Box)

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