Plan of the contemplated murder of John Campbell
- Title
- Plan of the contemplated murder of John Campbell
- Description
- Broadside with engraving and text describing the Ku Klux Klan's attempted lynching of John A. Campbell in Moore County, North Carolina in August 1871. Includes artist depiction of robed and hooded Klansmen with animal-like masks surrounding Campbell and holding a noose around his neck. Text describes actions of undercover United States secret service agent Joseph Hester in freeing Campbell and having the Klansmen arrested.
- Date
- August 1871
- Original Format
- advertisements
- Extent
- 23cm x 32cm
- Local Identifier
- F259 .P53 1871
- Subject(s)
- Campbell, John A.
- Ku Klux Klan (19th century)--North Carolina
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--North Carolina
- Spatial
- Location of Original
- Joyner NC Rare
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A daguerrotype of this event, re-enacted, is in the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City MO
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John Campbell was my great-great-great grandfather. I am including his encounter with the Klan in a book I am writing. I am searching for the text in the copy under the picture of him with a noose around his neck. I need to know the name of the judge in Raleigh who tried the Klan members.