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23 Aug 2017 07:35

After watching the events in Charlottesville unfold, a Catholic priest in Virginia came forward with some personal information he had kept under wraps for years: In the 1970s, he was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and served jail time for burning crosses. William Aitcheson, 62, was a University of Maryland student at the time, he wrote in the Arlington Catholic Herald Monday, and an "impressionable young man." The Washington Post reported in March 1977 that Aitcheson was a leader of the Robert E....
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