Yes. I knew this about the cross burning by Charles Murray. One of my earliest memories was of death threats against our family by Klan and John Birchers in Michigan because my father, a teacher, had helped lead integration of teaching there. Murray very much NOT from a Norman Rockwell family.
This open access book about the context of the Bell Curve includes this rollercoaster of a paragraph--did you know Charles Murray burned a cross as a teenager, and claimed not to know what that meant?--concluding with a real beauty
