african-american families in prince george county and he also made numerous threats to coretta scott king widow of dr. martin luther king jr. threatening to kill her if he spoke at an event at university of maryland and prince george naacp said his actions did not stop there he planned to fire bomb northwestern high school. but says he forgives him. take a listen. >> i commend him for coming out publicly and acknowledging his past. if we cannot then what good are we. with he have to forgive pe people. like said, he's fond a new life. he's a priest now. he's tryinging to do good. understand on several reports they said he was in hiding. he should not hide. he need to come out and let his experience be known. >> now, again, we have made several attempts to speak we father aichison but have not heard back. meanwhile later today we will hear more details from the family we spoke to yesterday. that's the latest in fairfax, virginia, back to you in the studio. >> reporting. time now is 4:34 and happening today in prince george county precedent ever a condominiums deemed to be unsafe have until

but we now know that he was the leader of this ku klux klan group, that he threatened coretta scott king and others and he was very much involved in making pipe bombs. >> and was the church aware of any of this? >> the church says they were aware before he joined the priest are hood of his criminal path past, but not of the money he owes to this family. >> all right. more to come. >>> satisfaction and also anger this afternoon? sharlgs. some cheered as the is the chews of two confederate generals were covered, others started a shouting match near the monument. city council d statues of lee and stonewall jackson as the city mourns the deadly violence there earlier this month. >>> the fallout over charlottesville prompting a major change at a place of worship here in d.c. news 4 has learned the national cathedral is speed being up its decision making on what do about two stained glass windows. they memorialize robert e. lee and stonewall jackson. church officials say a decision is, quote, coming soon. and not next summer as previously planned. >>> imagine you're walking down the street and

actions did not stop there and we obtained fbi documents from the late and he made threats to coretta scott king widow of dr. martin luther king jr. threatened her if she spoke at an event at university of maryland. africa or death by lynching take a pit. we spoke to a member of the naacp who remembers this but despite hateful actions he can only for i give him. >> i commend him for acknowledging his past. if we cannot forgive people we're good he's trying to do to good. he was in hiding. he should not hide. he needs to come out and let his experience be known. >>> now again father aitcheson no longer serving at the s st. leo the great church in fairfax, virginia. catholic church issued a statement calling it very sad and disturbing incident. we also again hope to hear from family later today. that's the latest from fairfax annie yu "fox5 local news". >> all right any thank you so much. time running out to check out the district's three corps flowers as stinky as they may be. . >> well, people who live in this delap i dated building have until noon to get out or face a court order. lawyers are t

several homes of african-american families in prince george county and made threats to coretta scott king widow of doctor martin luther king jr. threatening to kill her if she spoke at umd. despite hateful actions aitcheson took against the community a anybody of the naacp tells us he can only forgive him. take a listen. >> he should not hide. i think he needs to come out and let his experience be known. because tlooz a lot of people especially young people who recruited and ku klux klan at young age. they don't know any better. unless somebody reached out to them and proves to them that's i commend him for coming out publicly. >> now, back out here live. st. leo the great in fairfax. he joined the church in 9. we're told no accusations of race imor bigotry was we're told by the family we spoke to yesterday they hope to share more details about what happened and thousand they can for for are war. if that happens annie yu "fox5 local news". >> thanks, annie. michael thomas in with a lock look at the forecat. >> tucker is taking a well needed vacation the rest of the week. >> so unusual. >>

coretta scott king is a great one. >> let me say this, it's been that coretta was really in the movement as now, women in particular black women have never gotten the credit we should have gotten for what we did in the movement. women were very integral to the success of the civil rights movement but you never hear much about them. you hear about martin area did you hear about malcolm. but do you hear about coretta? do you hear about people like dorothy heights or mrs. lowden? i'm intrigued about the women behind these great men and the women who made the movement move so that's why the coretta book. this is by a pastor out of georgia whose talking about that we've gotten so complacent in our churches that we, this is how he explains it.we go to the same place every time. even though the last few times we've been going, the fish are not there but we're still going and doing the same thing. maybe we have to go to deeper water be to find the fish because the fish have moved. it's important for me not just as a christian but as a leader to figure out how do i find the fish and not expect th

we've learned father aitcheson once threatened to kill coretta scott king. >> the other target of his terror are speaking out. live in fairfax with the latest in the this story. annie. >>> well with, holly, wisdom, we were able to track down one of the families targeted by william aitcheson 40 years years oing go that this will be one step closer to closure. since this public she stepped down and he joined the church in '93. again he voluntarily stepped away from public ministry since exposing lead are of kkk lodge of umd. we tried to get touch with father aitcheson but did not want to hear app the couple says they're owed civil dam from ach inson. fbi documents from the light 70s burned self crosses in several homes of african-american families in prince george country. window of mar tip lunger thing jr. if she spoke mean time offered a public statement in research to pup lick cop vexs he did not want to be identified until fighting legal counsel they hope to share more during a press briefing later this morning. hopefully we're learn more details and bring it to you. the latest from

that's why the king papers project when coretta scott king named me to edit martin luther king's papers she understood that in the long run what would survive were the papers that martin luther king produced during his lifetime. so all of that is part of what i would call the legacy of martin luther king. and if we want to get close to who he really was, that's the best window that we have into the past. so martin luther king produced a lot of papers. one of the things that has kept me busy for the last 30 years is bringing together hundreds of thousands of documents. as any great person, you have so many materials to work with and all of these are important windows and that's why i feel that my life is well served by doing this, is that it provides what we will -- what will be the lasting memory of martin luther king. but when we look at who he really was, we have to kind of go back beyond the myth, we have to go back beyond the kind of person who was honored by the national holiday, because the importance of coming to a site like this is that you begin to see evidence from michael kin

and he was also sentenced to 60 days for the threats to coretta scott king. at a court hearing in 1977, a fire marshal who infiltrated atchison's ku klux klan group said atchison was unstable and extremely dangerous and that he was planning, quote, guerrilla warfare against blacks. making bombs. >> he had said he was coming back to put our pipe bomb at our door. so he was -- he was a mean burn. he was a mean burn. >> as for father atchison, he is still refusing to speak publicly and has stepped down from his duties at saint leo the great church in fairfax. the church has said they will work with the priest to help him repay the butlers the $23,000 he was ordered to pay them decades ago. the butlers say they will ask the kucourt the order him to pa it back with interest. >>> and the more disturbing it gets. mark, thank you. >>> now to breaking news in charlottesville where there is a dispute over the tarp just 34r5ised over t ed placed over the statue of robert e. lee. our producers in our newsroom tell us an older man approached the monument there, confronted

the news at ten starts right now he burned crosses even threatened to kill correspond receipt a scott king tonight we've learned even more about the virginia priest who revealed his troubled past as a queue cluks clan leader. i'm shawns and i'm tony perkins. father aitcheson terrorized residents 40 years ago. he stepped down from his post and now his targets are of terror are speaking out. fox5's marina maracco continues our exclusion exclusive story. >>reporter: 40 years passed, this pass published yesterday in the catholic herld we would like to know little to nothing about the hurt this man once the kkk. we've made several attempts to contact father william aitcheson. his silence has made it clear he doesn't want to be found. one of the african-american families target ed by aitcheson suffered his hatred acts including a cross burning on their front lawn. tonight they asked not to appear on camera until they sought legal counsel and he when askedded 40 years later they had for given aitcheson they still had no answer. the catholic church has remained siel lint with only a public stateme

fbi records show he sent letters to coretta scott king threatening to lynch and kill her if she came to the university of maryland campus. having all this resurface now 40 years later just reopens an old wound they say never completely healed. >> i will never ever forgive him. we didn't deserve this. >> so we're lirningearning a lo about his ku klux klan leader, not just a member. as you saw, he was convicted of sending that threat to coretta scott king, sebrved 60 days for that, and ordered another for 90 days for another cross burning and he never repaid the $23,000. today i asked a church spokesperson what they were going to do about that and how they came to know about the father owing the family all this money and they wouldn't comment about that, but they did say that the priest and bishop want to meet with this couple. but today the couple was steadfast and butler said until he's ready to name the other members of the ku klux klan who targeted their house, they are not interested in tar gelgeting. it will play out for a while. >> all right. thanks. >>> and more breaking news i

that he had been charged in three counties with manufacturing explosives, threatening to lynch scott king, burning crosses in front of jewish organizations, and philip and barbara butler's front yard. >> there shouldn't be any place in our country for this. >> but there's more. >> i thought he was dangerous, i didn't know about his background but i would never turn my back on him. >> a doctor and a fierce advocate for abortion rights in reno nevada. >> all you have to do is stop killing babies and jesus's arms are wide open. >> firebombed more times by abortion opponents. he says as a priest, he spent months protesting outside before he was charged in 1992 with assaulting a college student who was trying to shield a patient. >> he was guilty of assault, battery, and trespassing on a woman. >> do you think he has put his [ null ] past behind him? >> no i don't. >> is he the same man that he was when he was a student at the university of maryland. >> you can change your clothes but you can't change who you are. >> he remains out of sight right now, unwilling so far to answer all of those qu

. >> he burn crosses and even threatened to kill coretta scott king.e have new details about the virginia priest who reveals his troubled past as a kkk leader. one of the family also he target asked speaking out and we'll have the full report coming up. >>> political correctness run rampant? espn pulling a play by play announcer from football game in have a is because he shares the same name with an infamous confederate general. now the sports network is under fire on social media. >>> and later -- >> ♪ >>> powerball near record territory. a jackpot drawing tonight now worth nearly $1 billion. the odds of winning are lower than ever so why are so many more people buying tickets. good day at 9a starts now. ♪ >>> hey, it's 9:01 you hit the jackpot. >> i like that. >> you're whamming good day d.c. at 9:01 wednesday august 23rd. wisdom martin, holly morris, maureen umeh and steve chenevey. >> also ahead this morning, kids are heading back to school as you know that means less time to check devices coming up later, we're talking about some of the apps you n

and i'm also reading about the "my of karen a scott king, life, my love, my legacy." >> what inspiredse choices? >> let me just say that then, when she was in the movement, as now, women in particular, black women have never gotten the credit that we should have got for what we did in the movement. women were integral to the civil rightse movement, but you never hear much about them. you hear about martin, you hear about malcolm, but do you hear about queretaro? do you hear about people like dorothy height? intrigued about the women behind these great men and who made these great men move. from ash have moved," pastor out of georgia, talking about how we have gotten complacent out of churches. we go to the same place to catch fish every time, even though the last few times we have been going, the fish are not there. maybe we have to go into default .- deeper waters i think it is important for me not just as a christian, but as a leader, to figure out how i find the fish and not expect for the fish to always be at the same place or to always come to me. me ast strike -- struck such a g

as well as the first lady of the civil rights movement coretta scott king, who declared a new harmony among women. in houston, the feminists succeeded in two of their cherished goals they hoped to achieve through iwi. newer and younger and more radical women joined a movement kicked off by older more moderate progressive women. coretta scott king surrounded by representatives of african-american, asian american and hispanic american women declared, quote, there is a any force, a new understanding, a new sisterhood against injustice that has been born here. and we will not be divided and defeated again. then spontaneously most of the audience stood and joined hands. and as they swayed back and forth sang "we shall overcome" many of them with tears streaming down their cheeks. in the past warned against feminist embrace shocked audiences when she stood and before the cameras seconded the resolution to include gay rights in the national plan of action that then prompted conservative delegates to stand and turn their backs to the podium, dropping their heads as if in prayer. this national

as well as the first lady of the civil rights movement coretta scott king who declared a new harmony among women. in houston, the feminist succeeded in two of their cherished goals they hope to achieve through iwi. moving the movement beyond its white middle-class base and moving it past the ideological wrangling that had plagued the movement earlier in the decade as newer and younger and more radical women joined a movement that had been kicked off by older, more moderate progressive women. coretta scott king surrounded by representatives of african-american, asian american and hispanic american women, declared "there is a new force, a new understanding, a new sisterhood against injustice that has been born here, and we will not be divided. and defeated again." and then spontaneously, most of the audience stood and join hands and as they swayed back and forth saying we shall overcome, many of them with tears streaming down their cheeks. betty freidan who had warned against feminist embrace of what she once called the lavender menace shocked audiences when she stood and before the ca

he even made numerous threats to correspond receipt a scott king, the widow of the late dr. martin luther king, jr. one of those cryptic letters seen here reads, quote, africa a or death by lynching. take your pick. we're told he even planned to bomb the local chapter of the prince george's county naacp. author jackson says he vividly remembers being evacuated present the building that night during the meeting we got a call from the fbi that we had to evacuate the building because of there was going to be an attempt to fire bomb the building that we were in. those who know aitcso man he is today. today he's known by many as father h sop, a leader of a catholic church, a priest at saint leo the great at fairfax, virginia. he just felt guilty, that's all. today we also learned aitcheson became or dwaind at the die ease of reno in 1988 and later came to saint leo the great in 1993. but rather than harbor any hate or resentment to the man who threatened the widow of doctor martin luther king, jr., blow up the naacp building and burn crosses for those african-american families ja

convicted in 1977 of multiple cross burnings and a threat to kill martin luther king's widow, coretta scott king. he was the wizard of a 12-member kkk lodge. we're going to learn more about atchinson when we visit the virginia town where he grew up. that will be on the way at 5:30. >>> a small number of people who had been living at this crumbling a lynn hill condo complex in temple hill were defying the county order to leave. fire officials told them yesterday it's not safe for you to live here. after all, these chronic fire code violations in that complex, scott broom is live again tonight to tell us how authorities are handling this standoff of sort. >>reporter: well, they're trying to not make this a complication. they're declaring this a humanitarian evacuation. between the u haul trucks and you can see a chain link fence to keep those they have been able to leave to keep them out. they say no one is leaving in handcuffs, but they say they're shutting down this parking lot starting at 7:00 this evening. >> so we're basically going to be homeless. >> boards going up and the buildings wrapped

aitcheson terrorized residents in and around prince george's county 40 years ago and even threatened to scott king. his recent revelations are opening old wounds and now targets are speaking out. more than 40 years have passed and had it not be by the book pennedded by the priest. we would know little to nothing about the hurt this man caused. we've made repeatedly attempts to contact william aitcheson, but for now he has made it clear he doesn't want to be found. one of the african-merican targeted by aitcheson suffered a cross burping on their front lawn. they're still owed civil cam yes, sir sphr aitcheson and tonight they asked not to appear on camera until they sought legal counsel and when we asked if 40 years later they for gave aitcheson they had no answer. the catholic church only calling it, quote, sad and deeply troubling. fox5 has continued to dig and has uncovered disturbing details of aitcheson's past. the de classified documents compiled pie the fbi detail his numerous letters to doctor martin luther king. a letter before her scheduled appearance at the university of maryland in the

, my life, my love, mike legacy about credit scott king. >> what inspired these choices? >> lets me just say that then when she was really in the movement as now women in physical or black women never gotten the credit we should have gotten for what we did in the movement

martin luther king judiciary's life, coretta scott king, and because president reagan visited two of victims, the but lers. >> there shouldn't be any place in our country for that sort of ring. >> reporter: today, a spokesman for the arlington diocese said: the church has accepted his offer to temporarily step away from the public ministry and says he would like to meet with the butler family privately. they say that won't happen until he reveals who helped him burn the cross on their lawn. >> i will never, ever forgive that. we didn't deserve this. no one sterves this. >> reporter: now, a federal judge ordered aitchson to pay the family $23,000, but they say he never did. anthony, the diocese says efforts are being made to ensure that aitchson full fills his obligations to butler family. >> mason: errol barnett, thanks. a feud is brewing between the boy scouts and the girl scouts. adriana diaz now on what it's all about. >> reporter: after 105 years of teaching girls to overcome obstacles, the girl scouts say they're now facing a new one it's boy scouts. the boy scouts of america te

april 1, 1998 at the palmer house hillton our mother coretta scott king. she said when she calls on the simple rights community to join the struggle, she said you also need to get in the struggle against homophobia. that was in 1998. against anti-gay bias. she said homophobias like racism. and anti-semitism and all other form of bigotry. it seeks to dehumanize large group of people denied tear humanity and their dignity and their person hood. i believe that mother coretta scott king saw this day and made a decision years ago a would establish this precedent. without fear,al lou -- hallelujah being ungrouped and retribution and without fear what others might say, i want to say to you, a i'm weary of having to fight these battles separately. i am a black woman. i am a preacher. i am a same gender loving woman. i'm your senior sister. we are family unless we go together. god bless you. >> please welcome reentry of fair from the obama administration. give him round of applause. >> i stand in front of the justice department after having been censored for 188 to

coretta scott-ki king surroundey women of african-american, latin women who claim there is a new sisterhood and justice taz been born here and we will not be divided and defeated again. and then most of the audience stood and joined hands and as they swayed back and forth saying, we shall overcome, many of them with tears streaming down their cheeks, betty for-dan who in the past had warned against feminist shocked audiences when she stood and before the cameras seconded the resolution to include gay rights in the national plan of action. that then prompted conservative delegates to stand and turn their backs to the podium dropping their heads as if in prayer. this national plan of action that they adopted was a historically significant document that incorporated the moderated goals of the founding mothers of the '60s and the more radic radical women who had cam into the museum through war and civil rights museum, which propose salas written 40 years ago, nonetheless seems please yant today, which included the end of the deportation of undocumented women and children. when near the end of t

reading james cliburn's booked of his experiences about the life of koresh does scott king. >> what inspirede say that when she was really in the movement those women never got the credit for what they did women were integral to the success of the civil-rights movement you don't hear much about them you hear about malcolm x said d you hear about coretta? so i am intrigued with say pastor added of georgia to be so complacent in our churches this is how we explain that we go to the same place to catch fish even though they are not there but we do the same thing. maybe we have to go to the deeper waters. as a leader into a christian person had when i expect officialese to be in the same place or come to me and it struck me as such a great read a very tiny book so we have to figure how to go into deeper waters and stand on the shore and that is why that one and then james is my friend is one of the most intelligent people and great experiences with the understanding of who he is now with his childhood was like white tv camera man he is. >> this is where most of your inspiration comes from? >> cr

s wife, core ita scott king and because president reagan visited two of his victims the butlers. >> shouldn't be any place in our country for that sort of thing. >> today a spokesman for arlington diocese, at the time he began ministry here in 1993, the diocese learned of his past as well as his sincere conversion of heart. but the spokesman says, his past was not common knowledge to current staff, 24 years later. the church accepted his offer to temporarily to step away from the public ministry and says he would look to meet with butler family privately. until he reveals who helped him burn the cross on their lawn. >> i will never, ever, forgive that. we didn't deserve this. no one deserves this. >> a federal judge ordered aitcheson to pay the family $23,000. they say he never did. anthony, the diocese says efforts are being made to ensure that he fulfills his obligations to the butler family. >> errol barnett, thanks. >> a feud is brewing between the boy scouts and the girl scouts. adriana diaz now on what it is all about. >> reporter: after 105 years of teaching girls to the overcome obsta

reading james cliburn's booked of his experiences about the life of koresh does scott king. >> what inspirede say that when she was really in the movement those women never got the credit for what they did women were you hear about martin. you hear about malcolm. you hear about marilyn. you hear about coretta. do you hear about people like dorothy hayek? i'm intrigued about the women behind these great men and the women who made the movement move so that's

he sent a letter to cloretta scott king threatening to lynch her. he was building pipe bombs in his home and wanted to target fort meade with an attack. >> mark, you actually tracked down one of his victims in that cross burning, one of them in prince georges county, where does she live in maryland, still today. >> she lives in silver spring with their husband. they're in their 70s. they're retired she remembers that day very vividly. she said, you know, she had no idea that this man who did this to them, you know, all these years ago was still alive, much less a priest living just minutes away from them for all these years. >> we were talking a few minutes ago in the newsroom, mark, the church was actually aware past, is that right? >> they say that he has been up front since becoming a priest about his past. but what he did not disclose in that letter, and apparently he did not disclose to the church, not only was he convicted and served 90 days in jail back in 1977 but back then the judge ordered that he pay this family, butler family, $23,000. h

antioch university used to be there, john lithgow is from that town, coretta scott king, it is a subversivee austin of ohio. >> in a way, very much so. with none of the money and fun stuff to do at night. >> stephen: but the new year's eve party. >> this is like the big dance, so the police came through and busted it up. and a guy, apparently, i don't know what happened. but some guy got tased. >> stephen: for doing what? >> i don't know. i think the police trying to get out of car and he held the door shut or something like that. and they tased him and the crowd was drunk and then the police-- the feeling in town is the police generally overreacted because they were not culturally sensitive to how the town functions. now i personally like the acting chief of police, but they made a huge mistake. it was really like "come on, man, what are you doing." so people went and voiced their opinions. it seemed strange if it is on the news, but in the town, it is just like it's not a big deal. like everybody knows, it's like "the simpsons." you see the same people every day, and i'm like the local kr

king, coretta scott king to express his great concern and support for her. and it made a differece. it sent a clear signal. i think the president's team ought to be devising a series of steps that would be healing. and show a recognition and acceptance on his part that we're dealing with terrorists. he has been -- you know, he's gone way over board to condemn islamic terrorism, but there are studies that have shown in the last decade or so, the number of domestic cases of terrorism have been double that of islamic related terrorism in this country. so -- and this administration is proposing to cut the funding for the programs that deal with domestic terrorism. >> that fight domestic terrorists and some of these hate groups. exactly. this morning on "state of the union." the mayor of charlottesville accused the president of emboldening some of these hate groups. >> look at the campaign he ran, look at the intentional courting both on the one hand of all these white supremacists, white nationalists, anti-semitic groups and look on the other hand the repeated failure to step up, condem

to reports he committed many hate ful crimes, including threatening to kill correspond receipt a scott king. take a look. forty years ago, william h son was the leader of a local maryland leader of the klu klux klan, the exawlted sigh clops to be specific. he had also plan ned on fire bombing northwestern high l school. his , actions don't stop there. obtained during the late 1970s police say he burned crosses in front of several homes of african-american families around prince george's county. he even made numerous threats to koretta king, the widow of the late dr. martin luther king junior. one of the krippic letters seen here reads africa or death by lynching. take your pick. we're told he he even planned to bomb the local chapter of the prince george's county county nw aap. author jackson says he vividly remembers being evacuated from the building that it into. during the meeting we got a call from the fbi that we had to vacate the building because there was going to be an attempt to fire bomb the building that we are. those who know him today say that's not the man he is today. today h

and in fact, if you are wrong on those issues, coret scott king who was a great christian woman saidveing a child -- starving a child is violence. discrimination is violence. ghetto housing is violence and ignoring health care is violence. there are other forms of violence. trump is outward and brash and open but he is where he is because of others who may not be as open as he was -- has been. but they promote the same kind of policies that have the same kind of racist disparity impact on people of color and poor white people. because the same policies that hurt people of color also hurt people -- poor white people and working class white people and that is the coalition we have to get together which is why i was glad to see the 40,000 people marching together in boston. now we have a march on state capitol and the congress and change policies. >> and yet, reverend barber, you had white evangelicals go 81% for donald trump and 65% of white evangelicals favoring donald trump in a latest poll, 38% of the over all country and jerry fallwell jr., a very influential person tweet the follo

surprised that the words of cormedix got king are not suitable for debate in the united -- correct test scott king are not suitable for debate in the u.s. senate. i asked to continue my remarks. >> is their objections? senator mcconnell: i object. >> objection is heard. the nator will take her seat. . warren: i appeal the ruling of the chair. i request a quorum. >> senator warren was given a lengthy speech.she had it. appeared -- she had to violate the rule. she was warned. she was given an explanation. nevertheless, she persisted. steve: really an incredible moment where politics and process and social media came into play. sushine: absolutely. one of the things bill and i did this summer was to create content to include the c-span teacher website, and this was one of the moments i chose for 19.2,sons on senate rule which is something i can assure you that in 17 years, my students have never been interested in, until now. now we have an awareness i have never seen as a teacher in the intricacies of the process among the public as a whole, and it trickles down into the classroom. remember how i ta

cliburn's booked of his experiences about the life of koresh does scott king. >> what inspired these choices. >> let me say that when she was really in the movement those women never got the credit for what they did women were you hear about martin. you hear about malcolm. you hear about marilyn. you hear about coretta. do you hear about people like dorothy hayek? i'm intrigued about the women behind these great men and the women who made the movement move so that's why the coretta book. the move is by a pastor out of georgia but who was talking about that we've gotten so complacent in our churches that we, this is how he explains it. we go to the same place and time even though the last few times we've been going, the fish are not there but we're going to do the same thing. maybe we have to go to deeper waters to find the fish because the fish are moving. it's important for me not just as a christian but as a leader to figure out how to i findthe fish . and not expect for the fish to always be atthe same place or to always come to me. and it struck me as such a great read, very tiny

never disclosed that to the church, and then he has a deep fbi file where he threatened coretta scott king of lynching her in the '70s, and then he was making bombs and planning guerilla warfare. then the last shoe to drop, after the diocese id knew about this, his kkk record but did not know about the record but he's coming forward because of charlottesville, and then we fined out late in the third day of the story that actually he came forward because a reporter found out and started asking questions. he was not prompted by charlottesville. he was prompted because he was going to be outed and exposed. he refused to talk to the press, and they issued a statement, and each statement gives a little more information. this has been trickling out. when you look at what this guy did when he was in his 20s, and he was born in arlington in 1954, and grew up in howard county and went to the university of maryland. he was a leader of the klan room. >> he has named other members as well. >> barbara and fiphillip butler they describe the cross he burned as large, and he never could have done this by

and he said cureta scott king is in terrible discomfort. it would help if you would contact her. and he said, sure, i'll contact her. give me her number. and he dialled her number in the hotel room. and it was a break through. dr. king's father was really a more prominent player than dr. martin luther king, jr., at the time. he was about to go public with it and announce he was going to vote for kennedy. and jack kennedy went on the plane and said oh, i called king, and he said you did what? bobby kennedy is furious. he said, my god, we've lost the election. he calls in harris waford in the civil rights office and yells at him. he says you're not going to do anything further in this campaign. you may have lost it for us with this one call. jack kennedy didn't have a problem with it, but they did. but then curiously within a day john is very close and he's got wonderful oral histys. and he was a friend of both of ours, and we both interviewed john before his death. he got a call from bobby kennedy the next day. and he says bobby i need to tell you we've got a crazy wire report fro

ss i am also reading about the life of caracas scott king, "my life, my love, my legacy." >> what inspired these choices? >> let me just say this. -- women in particular have never gotten the credit we should have gotten for what we did in the movement. women were very interval to the success -- intra-cult to the success. you never hear about them. you hear about martin, you care about malcolm, but do you hear about karenina? -- corretta? i am intrigued about the women behind these a great men and the movement move. other book is by a pastor out of georgia who was talking about but we have gotten complacent and our churches that he-- and this is how explained it to -- we go to the same place to catch fish every time, even though they last few times we have gone the fish are not there. we still do the same thing. he says, maybe we have to go to deeper water because the fish have moved. i think it is important for me, not just as a christian, but as a leader to figure out how do i and not expect for the fish to always be at the same place or to always come to me. it struck me as such a great

i remember as teenager when he threatened coretta scott king, and he had plotted to bomb ft. meade.hink it was the nsa headquarters over there. so i was aware of him and then when i started interviewing clan leaders and clan members, he was a part of that group. so i interviewed some of his colleagues and they talked -- in fact they brought him up because i was interviewing a guy who was, um, who was imprisoned for trying to bomb a synagogue up in baltimore, and he was friends with bill aitcheson aitcheson is the name of the priest now and he told me about bill aitcheson. i reached out to him, and i contacted his folks here in montgomery county, and they said they would pass the message along to him but doubted he would contact me and did he not. >> did you know that he was priest all these years? did you know what happened to him? >> no, i did not know he was a priest. i had heard that he had moved away and little later on somebody else told me he had turned his life around. they didn't quite say what he had done, but they said he had turned his life around. >> so now, he has basic

. >> katherine scott is following the story from kings lane in bensalem. >> reporter: these flames are very quick and moved quickly you see what is left of the home the windows are broken out and the structure is charred and the homeowners are long time residents here both in their 80s they were pronounced dead early this morning. the viewer video shows the fierce flames tearing through this bensalem home on the 800 block of kings lane and the fire broke out at 4:30 a.m. multiple fire companies and ems respond. >> it was fully engulfed in fire and attempted to gain entry, they went to an exterior tact. >> it took about an hour to place the fire under control and firefighters located the couple in the living room where investigators believe the fire began. they had already perished. the victims are albert and his wife eileen. there was a power outage earlier this the evening and a neighbor told investigators that the homeowners had a candle burning inside and they believe that the fire was accidental. it's unclear if the smoke detectors worked. >> they say there was smoke detectors they

"action news" reporter katherine scott is live on the 700 block of king's lane in bensalem.herine. >> reporter: matt, an elderly couple died in this fire. we're told they were in their 80's. a fire truck had just returned to the scene here, we're told there was a flareup inside the home so they're putting out that hot spot right now. the firefighters had wrapped up a little bit earlier. but this investigation continues here in bensalem. let's start with viewer video of the fire that broke out shortly before 12:30 this morning on the 700 block of king's lane. police and fire crews arrived to thick smoke and flames. firefighters say there were smoke detectors inside the home but it's unclear if they were working. the couple was found on the first floor in the living room which is where investigators believe the fire began. there was a power outage in this neighborhood earlier in the evening. power had been restored around 11 o'clock last night and while the cause of the fire hasn't been officially determined, investigators now believe the couple had a candle burning inside dur