PHOTO CREDIT BROOME COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY . AMERICA FIRST: Binghamton Was The State Capital for the Ku Klux Klan in New York State for 5 Years. The Forgotten Kapital: The Ku Klux Klan in Binghamton, New York, 1923-1928 by Jay L. Rubin. Binghamton was home to the New York State headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan. Dr. Hiram Wesley Evans was the Ku Klux Klan's Imperial Wizard and Imperial Cyclops from Nov 1922 through to June 10th 1939, KKK boss Hiram Evans frequented Binghamton NY during that time frame. In the 1920s, Membership in the KKK reached several million people almost exclusively white, native-born, Protestant women and men like in Binghamton NY. And in communities where the KKK really took root like in Tennessee, "this meant that a very sizable part of the eligible population was in the Klan." The KKK was even successful at "block recruiting" of whole clubs or congregations at one time.   During the 1920s, a resurgent KKK moved North with their white s...

20/20 airs new special on Holly Bobo case Friday night May 31, 2024. (ABC) — Has a case we all thought was solved, been blown wide open? The all-new 20/20 True Crime on the “ Holly Bobo ” case premieres. A DEADLY SCREAM: Eva Pilgrim reports for our new 20/20 on new developments in the case of a 20-year-old nursing student who disappeared from her Tennessee home. SAVANNAH, Tenn. (WTVF) — New details in the Holly Bobo murder case. The possibility remains that her convicted killer Zach Adams could get a new trial. That may hinge on whether on a key witness who now says he lied in testimony that directly led to the conviction of Adams.    Defense attorney Jennifer Thompson for Zach Adams tried to present alternate suspects, including Terry Britt, who lived near Bobo and had a criminal past. Zach  Adams currently serving life for murder of Holly Bobo. A judge is now considering a request for a new trial from Zach Adams who was convicted seven years ago in the murder of Holl...

The FBI Used a 1951 Book to Gain Insight Into an American Al-Qaeda Suspect Samir Khan. North Carolina-based Al-Qaeda blogger Samir Khan was the subject of a major FBI counter-terrorism investigation in 2009. Recently released FBI files provide rare insight into the FBI's attempts to capture Samir Khan before he traveled to Yemen. There are numerous FBI files dated February 2009 about Khan's contacts, the details of which were redacted. However, one file from February 2009 shows that an FBI counter-terrorism agent sent a report to the Charlotte FBI field office to report that the bureau's Public Access Center Unit received an anonymous tip on its "Internet Crime Complaint Center" website claiming that Samir Khan made a death threat against a Sarasota, Florida private investigator , whose name was redacted from the FBI files. A news report about the incident, however, revealed that the private investigator is Bill Warner, who allegedly was responsible for shutting ...

Anti-Israel Agitators on College Campus are Actually Outsiders Like Antifa Recruited by Students for Justice in Palestine and Backed by National Lawyers Guild, I told You This 12 Years Ago in Tampa . James Carlson , a 40-year-old professional agitator lives in NY and considered a possible leader of the group that took over Columbia Univ. James Carlson aka Cody Tarlow was essentially Antifa ("Anarchist Action") back in the day. When arrested almost 20 years ago, he was charged with "three misdemeanors -- resisting arrest, wearing a mask and rioting." NBC News: A senior law enforcement official says one of those arrested at Hamilton Hall on Columbia University is James Carlson aka Cody Tarlow who was arrested during a G8 2005 protest in San Francisco for assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon and is a person of interest for burning an Israeli flag. Executive Order ; The Trump administration designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization on Sept 22, ...

The FBI considers sovereign-citizen extremists as comprising a domestic terrorist movement, (COP KILLERS) which, scattered across the United States, has existed for decades, with well-known members, such as Terry Nichols, who helped plan the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, bombing. Sovereign citizens do not represent an anarchist group, nor are they a militia, although they sometimes use or buy illegal weapons. Rather, they operate as individuals without established leadership and only come together in loosely affiliated groups to train, help each other with paperwork, or socialize and talk about their ideology. They may refer to themselves as “constitutionalists” or “freemen,” which is not necessarily a connection to a specific group, but, rather, an indication that they are free from government control. They follow their own set of laws. While the philosophies and conspiracy theories can vary from person to person, their core beliefs are the same: The government operates outside of its juri...

United Freedom Front mainly led by Raymond Luc Levasseur and assisted by Tom Manning, between 1975 and 1984 the UFF carried out at least 20 bombings and ten bank robberies in the northeastern United States, targeting corporate buildings, courthouses, and military facilities. On August 4th 1984 the owner of a storage facility in Binghamton New York contacts the FBI. One of his customers, ( United Freedom Front ), hasn't paid his bill in two years, the manager opened the storage unit so he could auction off the contents what he found inside terrified him the contents in there included hand guns , rifles and materials on how to make bombs how to handle firearms training, also research on various corporations and a lot of radical material and a lot of Marxist type literature. FBI agents also find bomb making diagrams in the Binghamton NY storage unit, they show a timer assembled with brass screws. Earlier in the FBI investigation agents found an unexploded bomb with similar bras...