He wore a wire, risked his life to expose who was in the KKK
JACKSONVILLE — For nearly 10 years, Joseph Moore lived a secret double life.
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JACKSONVILLE — For nearly 10 years, Joseph Moore lived a secret double life.
For more than a decade, Joseph Moore lived a secret double life. At times the US Army veteran donned a white robe and hood as a hit man for the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). He attended clandestine meetings and participated in cross burnings. He even helped plan the murder of a black man. However, Moore wore something else during his years in the Klan — a wire for the FBI. He recorded his conversations with his fellow Klansmen, and shared what he learned with federal agents trying to crack down on white supremacists in Florida law enforcement. One minor mistake could have meant
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Working undercover for the FBI inside Florida’s Ku Klux Klan, Joseph Moore helped foil at least two murder plots, according to court records.