Lessons on Repentance From a Former White Supremacist

Around one in the morning on June 10, 1990, a white Crown Victoria approached the West End Synagogue in Nashville, Tennessee. It was dead quiet; nobody around. Without provocation, someone sitting in the passenger seat shot about half a dozen rounds with an automatic weapon, shattering one of the synagogue's windows. The car drove off into the night, its headlights darkened to avoid detection. The FBI soon caught up with the triggerman. Leonard William Armstrong was indeed a Ku Klux Klan member; in fact, a fairly important one -- grand dragon of the Tennessee White Knights of the KKK.