Ex-Klansman's message now is about education

He warns families about recruiting Floyd Cochran was about 14 years old when he was recruited by the Ku Klux Klan. He wasn't really looking to be liked; in fact, he was something of a loner, milking cows on a dairy farm in upstate New York, living in foster care. But he was hooked. (...) Cochran was propaganda director at the Aryan Nations, a Christian Identity group that preaches anti-Semitism and white nationalism. He left the group's Idaho compound in 1992 after a group leader suggested Cochran's son should be euthanized for racial inferiority because he was born with a cleft palate. A few years later, after a Catholic priest asked him to speak about his personal experience to students at a small Oregon college, he found a niche. Shy and retiring by nature, Cochran has nonetheless become a crusader against the hate movement, traveling the country by Greyhound bus to speak about his personal transformation from neo-Nazi to peace-loving libertarian.