This Day in True Crime — November 3, 1979 The Greensboro Massacre On November 3, 1979, members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party drove into an anti–Klan rally in Greensboro, North Carolina — opened the car doors — and began firing into the crowd. Five people were killed and ten were wounded. The victims were members and supporters of the Communist Workers Party, who were marching for racial justice and workers’ rights. The shocking part wasn’t just the violence — it was what happen