Jeffery Lynn Berry (c. 1949 – May 31, 2013) was the leader of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Newville, Indiana.
The charges stemmed from a 1999 incident in which Berry refused to allow a local reporter and a photographer to leave his home following an interview.
[2] In a book written by his former assistant and now former Klansman, Brad Thompson, Berry's Klan was described as "a gigantic financial rip-off designed to line the pockets of its top leadership".
[3] Berry later left the Klan six months after Jacob Holdt, a Danish photographer, produced a documentary with him about racism.
On June 7, 2013, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported that Berry had died from lung cancer, on May 31, 2013, at a hospital in Cook County, Illinois.