Reagan vs. the KKK

This excerpt from an obscure 1951 film features Ronald Reagan who plays a district attorney trying to prosecute the local KKK. The KKK kidnaps a woman who witnessed a lynching and is helping Reagan. In the final scene, Reagan comes to her rescue. Note that although the KKK and lynching were primarily racial issues, all characters including the victims in this film are white. And the film does not take place in the south. In that regard it is similar to the better-known, anti-lynching film - the Ox Bow Incident - which also avoided the racial aspect and the south.

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• KKK
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