Johnny Lee Clary (born June 18, 1959) is a former Ku Klux Klan leader who became a born again Christian and now travels around the globe preaching the gospel and teaching against racism and hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, Neo Nazis, and Aryan Nations. Clary is known also as the wrestler Johnny Angel who had success in the 1980s in the National Wrestling Federation (NWF).
Johnny Lee Clary was born on June 18, 1959 in Martinez, California. Ac...
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Johnny Lee Clary (born June 18, 1959) is a former Ku Klux Klan leader who became a born again Christian and now travels around the globe preaching the gospel and teaching against racism and hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, Neo Nazis, and Aryan Nations. Clary is known also as the wrestler Johnny Angel who had success in the 1980s in the National Wrestling Federation (NWF).
Johnny Lee Clary was born on June 18, 1959 in Martinez, California. According to Clary, he was brought up in a racist household, where his father encouraged racist language and treatment of blacks, and saw to it that Clary attended an all white church. Although Clary's father, a Catholic, was not a Klansman (the KKK being a Protestant group), Clary states that his uncle, Harold, was a member and that Harold boasted to Clary's father of shooting an African-American man.
According to interviews Clary has given, his youth was marred by a tragic family life and also by a lack of stability. At the age of 10 he...
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