 His firstborn froze to death in the Ada, Oklahoma, hospital.One of his children was an adopted daughter who was actually his grandniece, whom J. C. fathered with a white woman while in high school.As the state leader of the NAACP, Watts was a target of the Ku Klux Klan and in 1979 had the opportunity to debate the Grand Dragon of the Oklahoma KKK, Johnny Lee Clary, on an Oklahoma City radio station.