From 1965 until his death , Rowe was a figure of recurring controversy after he testified against fellow Klansmen who were accused of killing Viola Gregg Liuzzo , a civil rights volunteer . He was accused of being an accessory to the murder . Other violent acts that he was accused of , and at times admitted to planning and perpetrating , include the attack on the Freedom Riders and the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing . He was given immunity by the FBI and he was never convicted of any wrongdoing . Rowe confirmed many of these accusations in his 1976 autobiography , '' My Undercover Years with the Ku Klux Klan , '' and in confession and testimony given to the United States Senate
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
Gary Thomas Rowe