Brooke's Top 10: Crimes of the Klan

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.8 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Vernon Dahmer was a shop owner in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and President of the local chapter of the NAACP. At midnight on January 10th, 1966, two truckloads of Klansmen drove to his house and firebombed it. Vernon's family never stopped seeking justice, but it would take them more than three decades to find it. Get online therapy at an affordable price with TALKSPACE. Get $100 off your first month by using code COLDCASE at www.talkspace.com OR download the TALKSPACE app! Manage YOUR business with NetSuite! Schedule your FREE Product Tour and receive your FREE guide “Six ways to run a MORE PROFITABLE Business” at www.netsuite.com/ccf

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this podcast one production available on Apple Podcasts and podcast one
0:08.2	This episode examines a sensitive topic please listen with caution
0:17.4	Vernon Dahmer lived in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in the 1960s
0:21.1	He had a wife and eight children seven sons and one daughter
0:25.3	He was a successful man who owned a cotton farm a sawmill and a grocery store
0:30.6	He volunteered as music director and Sunday school teacher at his local church
0:35.5	In addition to all of his other obligations
0:38.3	He served two terms as president of his local chapter of the National Association for the advancement of colored people
0:45.2	commonly known as the NAACP
0:48.2	I think it's safe to say he liked to help people
0:51.2	He helped people of all skin colors a quality that should have been admired and celebrated
0:57.1	However on January 10th
0:59.8	1966 the Ku Klux Klan committed the ultimate act of retribution
1:04.3	They firebombed his home and as the flames incinerated the walls of his house the smoke scorched his lungs suffocating him
1:12.6	At the age of 58 Vernon Dahmer was murdered because he believed all people were created equal
1:20.9	The memory of what happened that night will forever plague Vernon's wife
1:25.2	Ali Dahmer I
1:27.2	heard the gunshots coming in and a short time
1:31.4	They threw something into the living room when I need to scuff them flying the flames was just rolling coming at the coming after us
1:41.8	From Annie this is cold case files
1:50.9	Vernon Dahmer was born in 1908 his mother Ellen was identified as being by racial her mother had been raped by a white slave owner
2:04.5	Vernon's father George was a white man described as honest and hardworking
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