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Was, in fact, arson, so our office prosecuted him under the mail fraud charge. the judge gave him five years. >> i said now is the chance for me to get these documents, and i took a long shot. i sent a deposition discovery document to mrs. hays and says bring all the documents to the federal courthouse. she appeared with all the documents, every one of them. the constitution of the united klans of america ended up to be some of the most powerful evidence that we had against the uka. >> and so we had to put witnesses on the stand the perfect witness was gary thomas

The head of the united klan said kyle michael donald. all you have to do with this corporation, and it was a corporation, was show some of his top officials were behind and promoted the killing. >> some of the conspirators were high ranking officers. in fact, bennie hayes was the second or third highest ranking officer in that klan at the time of the murder. >> bennie, he gave the orders. he manipulated these young people. >> tiger knowles was 17 years old at the time. bennie hayes was just as culpable and should have been held accountable. >> around the time that the michael donald lynching t...

The mobile county jail. he had burned his house down instead of getting a lawyer to represent his son and he had been indicted for that. >> we were able to establish it was in fact arson, so our office prosecuted him under the mail fraud charge. a judge gave him five years. >> well, i said now is the chance for me to get these documents. and i took a long shot. i sent a deposition discovery document to mrs. hayes and said, bring all the documents to the federal courthouse. she appeared with all the documents, every one of them. the constitution of the united klans of america ended up to be som...

Top officials who were behind and promoted the killing. >> bennie hays was the second or third highest ranking klansman in the state at the time of the murder. >> bennie, he gave the orders. he manipulated these young people. tiger knowles was 17 years old at the time. bennie hays was just as culpable and should have been held just as accountable. >> and all of that together went to show the pattern of violence that this group had encouraged around the time the michael donald lynching took place.

Place. >> i had tiger knowles testify, i got hope from the attorney general rat of the united states at the time and they broke every rule you could break to get him down to mobile. i concentrate on information that he could give me about who was involved in this planning session down there in mobile the week before this all happened. he got on the stand and in detail told exactly what happened. he pointed out people sitting out there that individuals who was at tha him that photograph