society than to infantilize-and make public-its most secret information? (Coincidentally, in Birth of a Nation, a former Confed- erate soldier is inspired to start the Klan when he sees a pair of white children hide under a sheet to scare a group of black children.) Kennedy thought of the ideal outlet for this mission: the Adven- tures of Superman radio show, broadcast each night at dinnertime to millions of listeners nationwide. He contacted the shows producers   and asked if they would like to write some episodes about the Ku Klux Klan. The producers were enthusiastic. Superman had spent years fighting Hitler and Mussolini and Hirohito, but with the war over, he was in need of fresh villains. Kennedy began feeding his best Klan information to the Superman producers. He told them about Mr. Ayak and Mr. Akai, and he passed along overheated passages from the Klans bible, which was called the Kloran. (Kennedy never did learn why a white Christian supremacist group would give its bible essentially the same name as the most holy book of Islam.) He explained the role of Klan officers in any local Klavern: the Klaliff (vice president), Klokard (lecturer), Kludd (chap- lain), Kligrapp (secretary), Klabee (treasurer), Kladd (conductor), Klarogo (inner guard), Klexter (outer guard), the Klokann (a five-man investigative committee), and the Klavaliers (the strong-arm group to which Kennedy himself belonged, and whose captain was called Chief Ass Tearer). He spelled out the Klan hierarchy as it proceeded from the local to the national level: an Exalted Cyclops and his twelve Terrors; a Great Titan and his twelve Furies; a Grand Dragon and his nine Hydras; and the Imperial Wizard and his fifteen Genii. And Ken- nedy told the producers the current passwords, agenda, and gossip emanating from his own Klan chapter, Nathan Bedford Forrest Klav- ern No. 1, Atlanta, Realm of Georgia. The radio producers began to write four weeks worth of programs in which Superman would wipe out the Ku Klux Klan.