Ku Klux Klan Members Plan to Appear at Presidential Debate Site

Corey Dade reports from Oxford, Miss., on the presidential race. When the University of Mississippi hosts the first presidential debate tonight, the two sides of its troubled racial history could converge. The Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan plan to be on campus for the face-off between Republican nominee John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama, the first African-American nominee of a major party, according to a Friday report in the university’s student newspaper. University officials haven’t commented. But, since winning the bid as host a year ago, they have used the attention to promote the university’s efforts toward ...