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TIL activist Stetson Kennedy infiltrated the KKK and passed their secret handshakes/codes to the writers of “The Adventures of Superman.” The radio show then ridiculed these practices for 16 episodes and caused Klan recruitment to grind to a halt virtually overnight.

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