Bonnie Kukla's Knights Party leader just met with man behind group that bombed black churches and killed civil rights workers

Klansmen Thomas Robb and Edward Fields

With infamous Tulsans Bonnie and Stephen Kukla preparing to visit the Knights Party (Knights of the Ku Klux Klan) compound in Arkansas for an April Faith and Freedom Conference, their leader Thomas Robb traveled to meet an old friend.

That friend was Edward Reed Fields, a notorious KKK Grand Dragon, whose partner in a terrorist organization was involved in the 1958 racially motivated terrorist attack on the Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

Don't let the photos of a little old man in a sweater fool you, as Fields' underlings spent ten years bombing black churches and murdering civil rights workers.

Last week, Robb traveled from his Klan compound to Fields' home in Marietta, Georgia where the Knights' director reminisced with his old pal the former Grand Dragon and terrorist group leader.

'The Sundown Boys' Fields and Robb last week in Marietta, Georgia

While monitoring the Russian social media platform VK for Klan activity, Hate Trackers found the photos and a post made by Jason Robb, the son of Thomas Robb.

In his post he stated, "Pastor Thomas Robb visited Dr. Ed Fields in Georgia about a week ago. Dr. Ed Fields and Pastor Robb have been involved in the white resistance since the 60s. Dr. Fields published the truth at last newspaper for decades and spoke with Pastor Robb at rallies in Montgomery, Alabama and the annual Stone mountain rallies organized by Mr. Venable up to the late 80s. They have remained close friends for decades. I posted this so some who are new to the struggle will know the fight has been going on for a long time and just not a few years ago and what old warriors look like. Of course I can say that since he is my dad."

Ed Fields Knoxville Patriot Rally June 16, 2007

From a Wiki bio: Fields was born in 1932 in Chicago, Illinois, and moved at an early age to Atlanta, Georgia, where he graduated from Catholic school. It was during this time he became active in far-right politics, and associated himself with the Black Front, a local Nazi organization, serving as a recruiter.

Ed Fields in 1981

Fields was active in several white supremacist political organizations, joining the Columbians, an anti-black and anti-Semitic group, in high school, and joining J.B. Stoner's Christian Anti-Jewish Party in 1952; he later served as its Executive Director. He was also a member of the American Anti-Communist Society in 1950 and 1951.

In 1958, Fields founded the National States' Rights Party (NSRP), which advocated racial segregation and white supremacy; he served as its National Director while Stoner served as its National Chairman. Fields edited the party's newspaper, The Thunderbolt. During this time period, he frequently wrote to print publications detailing his beliefs, for instance in 1969 a letter by Fields was published in Playboy, alleging, "We will never have law and order in America until all Negroes are deported back to Africa and completely removed from this nation that was founded and built by the great white race."

J.B. Stoner

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, "For more than a decade, Fields’ NSRP engaged in a racist terror campaign, bombing black churches and assassinating civil rights workers, including Willie Brewster, shot and killed in July 1965. Stoner was eventually convicted for a bombing attempt at a Birmingham, Ala., church. Fields went on to produce pro-segregation, deeply racist and anti-Semitic propaganda for the next fifty years. His crude tabloid, The Thunderbolt, was a Klan favorite. It ceased publication in 2008.

A report issued by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) claims the FBI suspected Stoner was involved in bombing at least a dozen synagogues and black churches.

The National States' Rights Party has a rather thick FBI file on its activities.

From the FBI file

The ADL report also says, "Following J. B. Stoner's imprisonment for his involvement in the 1958 Bethel Baptist Church bombing, Fields lost the trust of many party members, largely due to his increasing activity with the Ku Klux Klan and decreasing involvement with the group, and was expelled from the party in August 1983. He continued publishing The Thunderbolt, but changed the newspaper's name to The Truth At Last. Fields founded the white supremacist America First Party in 1993, and spoke at the Populist Party's 1994 convention."

Ed Fields managed to escape punishment for his leadership in the bombings and murders during the deadly terror campaign.

Thomas Robb publishes KKK newspaper The Crusader

A Wiki entry on Thomas Robb, who took over as national leader of the Knights Party after David Duke's departure in the 1980s, denotes that he has close associations with both Fields and Stoner.

In 1986, Robb organized a protest against the Martin Luther King National Holiday in Pulaski, Tennessee, which is the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan. The event eventually became known as the White Christian Heritage Festival, held each October in Pulaski. Over the years Robb has developed a close relationship with other extremists including, J. B. Stoner, Ed Fields, Don Black, David Duke, Willis Carto, Michael Collins Piper, Canadian extremist Paul Fromm and former Croatian diplomat Tomislav Sunic.

Don Black is the former Klansman that founded Stormfront, the largest and most lucrative hate site in the world.

The last name on that list - Tomislav Sunic - will be at Robb's Faith and Freedom Conference along with Bonnie and Stephen Kukla. 

The ADL report previously mentioned says that both Fields and Stoner traveled to Zinc, Arkansas in 1998 for a national Ku Klux Klan gathering.

From the ADL report

That conference was put on by Thomas Robb and is now known as the Faith and Freedom Conference, which, again, the Kuklas participate in.

In 1976 Edward Fields sent a letter to Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley
that threatened a protest over the AG's reopening of the 16th Street Church bombing, the white supremacist terrorist act that killed four black girls in 1963.

The attorney general's response was priceless.

Priceless response to Fields by AG Baxley (shown)

AG Baxter was reopening many cases of terrorism that Alabama had kept swept under the rug. In 1977 J.B. Stoner was finally indicted for the bombing of the Bethel Baptist Church. As no one was killed in that particular bombing, he was sentenced to ten years in prison for placing a bomb near an occupied dwelling.

Having dodged charges on all the other bombings, Stoner died in 2005, so missed the reunion of his friends Fields and Robb.

Fields and Robb shown together last week in Georgia

The only question we can't answer in this article is why.

Why did Robb choose this time of unrelenting hate and white nationalism in America to rekindle an old friendship with a domestic terrorist?

As a final note, both the Kuklas moved to Oklahoma from Alabama.



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