Clarence Brandenburg leads KKK rally on Hamilton County, Ohio farm before Cincinnati TV cameras, with armed members making speeches about 'revengeance' against Black Americans

Clarence Brandenburg, a Ku Klux Klan leader from the Cincinnati area, organized a rally on a Hamilton County, Ohio farm on June 28, 1964, inviting a Cincinnati television station to film the proceedings. Klansmen in hoods and robes gathered around a burning cross; Brandenburg told the camera that the Klan might be forced to take 'revengeance' if the federal government 'continues to suppress the white, Caucasian race.' The filmed speech was broadcast on local and national television, and Ohio authorities used it as evidence to arrest and prosecute Brandenburg under Ohio's 1919 Criminal Syndicalism Act, which made it a crime to advocate violence as a means of achieving political reform.