Abstract
At approximately 12:45 a.m. on June 30, 1968, two Ku Klux Klan (Kkk) assailants, Kathy Ainsworth and Thomas Tarrants III, pulled into a quiet neighborhood in Meridian, Mississippi. Wielding a time bomb set to detonate at 2:00 a.m., they aimed to kill Meyer Davidson, a prominent Jewish Mississippian and outspoken critic of the Kkk. After planting the charge, the bombers would retreat to Miami, Florida, and wait for the assassination fallout to blow over. Ainsworth and Tarrants were unaware, however, that law enforcement awaited them in Meridian. Local police, Federal Bureau of Investigation (Fbi) agents, and a naval bomb squad watched them stop at Davidson's driveway. When Tarrants emerged from the car with a bomb, police shouted and opened fire. A car chase and gunfight ensued, wounding one policeman and bystander, incapacitating Tarrants, and killing twenty-six-year-old Kathy Ainsworth—a pregnant schoolteacher and the only known Klanswoman ever killed by law enforcement.1
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