The Klan’s official estimate of the assemblage—200,000 klansmen meet was the Fiery Cross headline—was surely an exaggeration. But even a low guess of about 100,000 by the Indianapolis Star gave credence to the Klan paper’s assertion that Kokomo had hosted “the biggest crowd of one-hundred percent Americans that ever assembled in any one place at any one time.” It was “a throng beyond the comprehension of the human mind.”
