Satisfied though Hunter, Futch, and McCall were that the hearing had sufficiently debunked Poston’s story as pure fiction—after all, why would the residents of central Florida choose to believe a communist reporter and lawyer from the North over the police and patrolmen of Lake County?—the FBI was not. The FBI chose to believe Bill Bogar, Exalted Cyclops of the Apopka Klavern of the Ku Klux Klan and key informant for the bureau. Bogar fingered Willis McCall as the party who’d initiated the storied but factual chase, and the FBI report indicated that the Klan had “intended to stop car and
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