VIRGIL LEE GRIFFIN
On November 3, 1979, the KKK had attacked a demonstration of Communists in Greensboro, NC and murdered 5 communists. The head of the Klan in NC saw no moral difference in gunning down 5 unarmed demonstrators and killing communist soldiers in The Vietnam War. Despite news video which clearly shows the shootings, an all white jury acquitted the 6 murderers. Later, they and the Greensboro police force were found guilty in a civil trial.
Virgil Lee Griffin was a leader of a Ku Klux Klan chapter in North Carolina who was involved in the November 3, 1979 Greensboro massacre, a violent clash by the KKK and American Nazi Party with labor organizers and activists from the Communist Workers Party at a legal march in the county seat of Guilford County. It resulted in the deaths of five marchers, including a woman.
