Blood River Rising: The Thompson-Crismon Feud of the 1920s"The KKK wasn't never about race. It was always about power and greed." So begins 86 year old Hadley Thompson, who insists a rural historian research why two people were murdered. At first, Hubbell has little interest in the matter. Not only did the murders take place in 1924, there never was a question of who committed them. What difference could a motive make now? It is Thompson's insistence that an active Ku Klux Klan chapter fueled the feud