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[[File:RR-KKK.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Ronald Reagan]] starred as the crusading district attorney battling the Klan in this 1951 film.<ref>See [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044075/usercomments analysis of film]</ref>]]
[[File:RR-KKK.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Ronald Reagan]] starred as the crusading district attorney battling the Klan in this 1951 film.<ref>See [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044075/usercomments analysis of film]</ref>]]
A series of scandals ruined the KKK's reputation and the group faded away after 1925, except for some remote areas like West Virginia. [[Robert Byrd]], later a Senator, was an organizer in West Virginia in the 1940s, and had apologized repeatedly for it in his later years. Supreme Court Justice [[Hugo Black]] admitted in 1939 that he had been a member in the 1920s. President [[Harry S. Truman]] was also a member.
A series of scandals ruined the KKK's reputation and the group faded away after 1925, except for some remote areas like West Virginia. [[Robert Byrd]], later a Senator, was an organizer in West Virginia in the 1940s, and had apologized repeatedly for it in his later years. Supreme Court Justice [[Hugo Black]] admitted in 1939 that he had been a member in the 1920s. President [[Harry S. Truman]] was also a (brief) member.
==Third Klan==
==Third Klan==