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GOOD EVENING. I'M TOM PUTNAM, DIRECTOR OF THE JOHN F. KENNEDY PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM. AND ON BEHALF OF DAVID McCAIN, CEO OF THE KENNEDY...
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| 00:01:44 |
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UNPREDICTABLE PART OF THE SESSIONS IS THE QUESTION-AND-ANSWER PERIODS. THE LAST TIME JOHN DOEHRR WAS ON THE STAGE WAS JUST SUCH A MOMENT. THE TOPIC...
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| 00:06:52 |
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END OF LEGALIZED SEGREGATION IN THE UNITED STATES, THE RELEASE OF NELSON MANTLEA AND FALL OF APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA AND THE ELECTIONS OF MANDALA...
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| 00:08:05 |
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MUCH. IT'S WONDERFUL TO SEE SUCH A NICE CROWD LIKE THIS. OUT TONIGHT. WELCOME. AND WE HOPE WE HAVE AN ENTERTAINING AND INFORMATIVE MEETING FOR YOU....
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| 00:10:47 |
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THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES PASSED THE FIRST CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IN ALMOST 100 YEARS. AND THIS WAS AN ACT THAT GAVE TO THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AUTHORITY...
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| 00:16:30 |
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TO INTERRUPT YOU. BUT IT MEANS THAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION, BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE KENNEDY YEARS, IT STARTED BEFORE JOHN F. KENNEDY BECAME...
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| 00:16:42 |
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BEFORE JOHN F. KENNEDY. THE ACTIVITY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION, AS IT WAS CARRIED ON UNDER ROBERT KENNEDY, STARTED IN THE SPRING OF 1960. >>
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| 00:16:53 |
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OKAY. AND WHEN KENNEDY BECAME PRESIDENT, HOW CONCERNED WAS HE ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF BLACK PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH? >> THE FIRST
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| 00:17:10 |
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DAY THAT ROBERT KENNEDY THE 21st OF JANUARY, ROBERT KENNEDY CAME TO MY OFFICE. TO MY OFFICE. I WAS IN CHARGE BECAUSE THE ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL...
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| 00:21:44 |
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KNOWN THAT THERE WERE THESE -- LOTS OF YOUNG LAWYERS. >> ONLY FOUR OF US
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| 00:21:48 |
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OR FIVE OF US THERE WORKING ON -- THE LAWYERS WORKING ON VOTING AT THAT TIME. AND MARSHALL SAID, WE NEED FOUR. THINK OF IT. FOUR. HERE THERE'S NOW 550...
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| 00:23:40 |
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THAT INFORMATION BACK AND WE PACKAGED THAT AND BEGAN SUITS AS FAST AS WE
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| 00:23:46 |
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COULD. >> GOOD. AND ONE OF THOSE YOUNG LAWYERS THAT WENT TO THE SOUTH WAS GORDON MARTIN. AND HOW OLD WERE YOU? >> I WAS 27. >> AND YOU WERE SENT WHERE?...
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| 00:24:05 |
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CASE THAT WE WERE TO BRING IN MISSISSIPPI. BUT I'D LIKE TO MENTION THAT ONE OF THOSE LAWYERS, THE ORIGINAL FOUR OR FIVE THAT JOHN WAS SPEAKING OF...
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| 00:24:42 |
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MENTIONED, JUST ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AFTER MY GRADUATION FROM LAW SCHOOL. AND I HAD BEEN HIRED ORIGINALLY TOOK AWHILE TO GET THE USUAL CLEARANCES,...
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| 00:26:06 |
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AND TELL THEM WHAT THE CASE WAS. WHO WAS THE CASE AGAINST? >>
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| 00:26:11 |
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OKAY. IT WAS AGAINST THE REGISTRAR OF VOTERS THERE IN LIND. AND YOU'VE GOT TO PUT IN MIND THE FACT THAT GEORGIA HAS 128 COUNTIES. MISSISSIPPI HAS 82....
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| 00:26:55 |
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MISSISSIPPI, WHERE VOTING IS A SACRED TRUST. THIS IS ONE OF THE CITIZENS WHO CAN VOTE. HE IS JOHN P. CROSSWHITE, AGE 70. HE LIVES ON THE WORLD WAR I...
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| 00:27:55 |
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WHEN THE GENE WAS FIRST DISCOVERED IT WAS BELIEVED THAT IT WAS THE LAST THING THAT COULD BE LEARNED ABOUT THE TRANSMISSION OF THOSE THINGS THAT WE INHERIT....
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| 00:28:22 |
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OF TIMES TO REGISTER TO VOTE IN MISSISSIPPI. EACH TIME HE HAS BEEN TOLD THAT HE IS NOT QUALIFIED BECAUSE HE FAIL ED FAILED TO PASS MISSISSIPPI'S LITERACY...
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| 00:29:19 |
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HATTIESBURG, MISSISSIPPI'S FIRST RADIO STATION. >>
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| 00:29:25 |
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CONSTABLE LEE DANIELS IS PROUD TO BE A PART OF TONIGHT'S ELECTION RETURNS FROM RADIO HATTIESBURG NEWS CENTRAL. AND IN MAKING POSSIBLE THIS BROADCAST,...
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| 00:30:01 |
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MISSISSIPPI AND THE 15th AMENDMENT IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE. GOOD TO THE LAST DROP. ANOTHER FINE PRODUCT OF GENERAL FOODS. CBS REPORTS,...
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| 00:30:25 |
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EVENING. THIS IS THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HERE IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES IN WASHINGTON. AND THIS IS THE 15th AMENDMENT TO THE...
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| 00:31:16 |
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UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION PROVIDES FOR FREEDOM TO VOTE. AND THIS COUNTRY MUST PERMIT EVERY MAN AND WOMAN TO EXERCISE THEIR FRANCHISE. SOSHOOT, AS...
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| 00:33:49 |
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THE HOUSE WHERE I'M LIVING NOW. I HAD PLANNED TO GO DOWN TO REGISTER THE DAY BEFORE. I WAS THINKING AS I WALKED ALONG THE DIRT ROAD IN FRONT OF MY...
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| 00:35:31 |
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RARE, ACTUALLY, FOR ONE OF THE LADIES IN THE OFFICE TO TAKE CARE OF AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN APPLICANT. IN GENERAL, THEY WERE REQUIRED TO SEE MR. LIND....
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| 00:36:01 |
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A VERY LARGE MAN, THE CASE THAT YOU WENT TO FILE WAS AGAINST HIM. >> IT
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| 00:36:07 |
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WAS. I THINK YOU CAN THINK OF IT REALLY AS MADDY BIVENS AND DAVID AGAINST GOLIATH. YOU JUST PUT IT IN THOSE TERMS. AND THE POWERFUL REGISTRAR BEING...
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| 00:36:24 |
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ON WHICH YOU WERE FILING THE CHARGES? THE 15th AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OR -- >> THE 15th
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| 00:36:31 |
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AMENDMENT AS WAS POINTED OUT IN THE VIDEO, GAVE THE POWER TO CONGRESS TO PASS LEGISLATION TO IMPLEMENT IT. THE 15th AMENDMENT, YOU REMEMBER THOSE THREE...
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| 00:37:19 |
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CALLED WITNESSES. THE TRIAL HAD MANY, MANY WITNESSES. >> YES. >> AND YOUR FATHER WAS
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| 00:37:26 |
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ONE OF THEM. MR. B.F. CAN WE TALK TO -- >>
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| 00:37:32 |
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SURE. AND B.F. BORNE HAD TO FILL OUT A FORM THE SAME WAY. AND ALL OF YOU RECEIVED COPIES OF THE VOTING FORMS, NOT OF MR. BORNE, BUT OF REVEREND SAM HALL...
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| 00:37:50 |
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OKAY. AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER, MY FATHER WAS INVOLVED IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN HATTIESBURG. AND EVEN IN THE EARLY '50s, I BELIEVE MY FATHER...
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| 00:39:11 |
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WERE YOU, AND WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION? >> I GUESS I WAS AROUND,
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| 00:39:16 |
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MAYBE 10 OR 12 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME. I WAS FRIGHTENED. AND AT THAT -- ON THAT PARTICULAR NIGHT, MY FATHER WAS AWAY AT A MEETING THAT NIGHT IN TOWN...
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| 00:43:51 |
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I WILL. I'M ABOUT TO CUT YOU -- >> WHEN PEOPLE WOULD
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| 00:43:54 |
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COME TO TOWN, THEY WOULD ALWAYS STOP BY THAT GROCERY STORE ON MOBILE STREET. MOBILE STREET WAS LIKE THE BEAL STREET IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. MOBILE STREET...
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| 00:44:29 |
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THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO ASK YOU. WHEN HE HEARD THAT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WAS DOWN THERE AND WAS GOING TO FILE A LAWSUIT AGAINST THERON LIND, THE REGISTRAR,...
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| 00:44:48 |
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ADD HIS
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| 00:44:49 |
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VOICE? >> YES. HE WAS VERY, VERY HAPPY BECAUSE HE FELT LIKE THE FEDERAL HELP WAS COMING NOW. HE WASN'T DEPENDING ON THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI BECAUSE...
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| 00:45:37 |
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TALK ABOUT HIS TESTIMONY IN YOUR BOOK. >> YES. >> WHAT WAS HE ABLE TO ADD
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| 00:45:43 |
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TO THE CASE? THAT MR. DOAR WAS TRYING? >>
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| 00:45:48 |
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SURE. WELL, WE HAD THE GREAT VARIETY OF WITNESSES. AND HE WAS SOMEBODY WHO HAD BEEN THE PERSON WITHIN BLACK COMMUNITY WHO HAD POSTED BOND FOR CLYDE...
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| 00:47:18 |
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OKAY. NOW THAT -- THERE'S BEEN A CHANGE SINCE THEN BECAUSE THE 11th CIRCUIT, WHICH IS NOW THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE STATE HAD -- HAS BEEN CREATED....
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| 00:47:48 |
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THE APPEALS COURT THAT YOU WENT TO. >> IT WAS. >> WHEN YOU LOST THE CASE. >> WE DID. >> WHEN HE REFUSED TO RULE. >> WHAT -- TELL ME ABOUT THE JUDGE....
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| 00:48:00 |
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JUDGE COX WAS A SEGREGATIONIST AND HE WAS A VERY OPINIONATED MAN. NOW TO THINK HE DID ALL SORTS OF BAD THINGS TO THE BLACKS THAT EVER CAME INTO HIS COURTROOM...
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| 00:49:24 |
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GOING TO DO THAT, HE SAID. I'M NOT GOING TO RELEASE YOU FROM THIS COURT. BUT ON THE BASIS OF THE FACT THAT HE WOULDN'T RULE, WE TOOK IT UP AS A DENIAL....
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| 00:55:22 |
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MAN TALKED ABOUT. WHEN I WAS UP HERE WITH JAMES MEREDITH IN ANOTHER PROGRAM. HE HEARD ALL THAT. AND HE -- IT WAS IN HIS OWN WORDS. HE TOLD THE AUDIENCE...
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| 00:57:06 |
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TAKE SOME QUESTIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE SHORTLY. I JUST WANTED TO ASK ONE QUESTION OF YOU, BUT YOU ARE SHOWING ME SOMETHING ELSE. WHAT DO YOU WANT?...
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| 00:59:37 |
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BOTH OF YOU BEFORE WE GO TO THE AUDIENCE, WHAT WAS THE ATMOSPHERE? WAS IT FRIGHTENING? THE WHITE CITIZENS COUNCILS WHO WERE OPERATING THE KU KLUX KLAN,...
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| 00:59:59 |
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DON'T THINK IT WAS FRIGHTENING FOR ANY OF US, ACTUALLY. BUT I WANT TO SAY THAT I HAD VERY STRICT RULES WITH RESPECT TO THE LAWYERS THAT WORKED FOR ME....
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| 01:01:50 |
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IN AND HE SAID THAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION GAVE THE STUDENTS CRAWLING SPACE. AND THAT'S ABOUT AS GOOD A DESCRIPTION. BUT THAT WAS THE ONLY WAY...
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| 01:02:05 |
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YOU. AND NOW I WOULD LIKE TO TURN IT OVER TO -- >> I SHOULD SAY, CAROLE, THAT
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| 01:02:10 |
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I DID HAVE MY TIRES SLASHED IN EAST CARROLL PARISH WHICH JOHN MENTIONED EARLIER. AND I'LL TELL YOU A QUICK ANECDOTE AS WE WERE LOOKING FOR WHITE...
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| 01:03:10 |
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NOTE, THERE ARE MICROPHONES ON -- IN BOTH AISLES, AND YOU ARE WELCOME TO ASK YOUR QUESTIONS. YES, SIR. >> I FILLED OUT ONE
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| 01:03:26 |
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OF THESE FORMS IN 19 -- IN JULY OF 1956. AND I WAS, AT THE TIME, RETURNING -- I WAS A COLLEGE STUDENT AT BRANDEIS. AND I WAS SCARED. THEY DID GIVE...
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| 01:04:49 |
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WAS TREMENDOUS. JUST THINK OF THEM AS THREE GROUPS. FIRST THERE WAS CORE. JAMES FOREMAN ORGANIZED THE FREEDOM RIDES IN THE BEGINNING OF THE 1960s. ...
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| 01:07:32 |
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WONDERING, WHAT WAS THE REPERCUSSIONS AGAINST YOUR FATHER AFTER THE APPELLATE COURT RULED IN HIS FAVOR, OR RULED AGAINST THE VOTER REGISTRAR AND THEN...
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| 01:07:50 |
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THE REPERCUSSIONS IF THERE WERE ANY, FOR YOUR FATHER WAS THE APPELLATE COURT RULED AGAINST THE VOTER REGISTRAR, SINCE HIS NAME WAS ON THE SUIT? >> BY...
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| 01:08:04 |
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RULING IN FAVOR, I DON'T THINK THERE WERE ANY REPERCUSSIONS REALLY. RULED IN FAVOR. >> THERE WAS NO
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| 01:08:15 |
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RETALIATION AGAINST YOUR FATHER FROM CITIZENS COUNCIL OR -- >> NOTO MY KNOWLEDGE. >> I THINK ONE OF
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| 01:08:21 |
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THE IMPORTANT THINGS TO REMEMBER AND I AGREE WITH WHAT JOHN SAID ABOUT ALL OF THE GROUPS, BUT THE LOCAL PEOPLE WERE GOING TO STAY THERE IN THE COMMUNITY....
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| 01:09:40 |
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COMPANY. GUN POWDER. WAS A SPIN-OFF FROM DUPONT IN THE EARLY PART OF THE 20th CENTURY. >> AND THAT WAS A BIG EMPLOYER. >> THE MAJOR
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| 01:09:49 |
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EMPLOYER IN HATTIESBURG. THE OTHER THING SHE WAS ASKING WAS YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WHAT IMPACT DID YOUR FATHER'S INVOLVEMENT IN THE MOVEMENT HAVE...
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| 01:10:05 |
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US WANT TO BE INVOLVED AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN SOCIETY. AND DO WHATEVER -- WHAT SMALL PART OR LARGE PART THAT WE POSSIBLY COULD. I KNOW ONE BROTHER...
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| 01:11:00 |
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TO THAT REGISTRAR? WHAT -- WAS HE SENTENCED? DID HE SERVE ANY TIME? WAS HE FINED? >> NOT AS MUCH HAPPENED,
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| 01:11:07 |
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I THINK, AS WE WOULD HAVE LIKED. HE WAS FOUND GUILTY OF CIVIL CONTEMPT AND FINED. THE COURT DETERMINED THAT IT WOULD NOT RULE ON THE CRIMINAL CONTEMPT...
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| 01:11:21 |
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YOUNG WITH THAT WEIGHT. >> HE
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| 01:11:23 |
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DID. HE DIED IN OFFICE. >> HE DID? >> HE DIED IN
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| 01:11:26 |
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OFFICE. AND HAPPYFULLY, JOHN HAS POINTED OUT OUR CASE LEADING TO THE PASSAGE OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT ACT. ULTIMATELY BLACKS REGISTERED AND DID HAVE...
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| 01:11:59 |
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LITTLE CLOSER TO THE MIKE? >> YOU MENTIONED THE
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| 01:12:05 |
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TERRIBLE INCIDENT OF THE KLAN BURNING A CROSS NEXT TO YOUR HOME. WHAT WAS THE VIOLENCE OR THE -- JUST THE PHYSICAL THREAT OR JUST THE FEAR KIND OF FACTOR...
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| 01:12:26 |
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PEOPLE IN MY COMMUNITY WERE PRETTY TO THEMSELVES IN TERMS OF BEING ACTIVE IN THE MOVEMENT, BUT I REMEMBER REVEREND W. RIDGWAY WAS ONE OF THE ONES, AND...
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| 01:13:01 |
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HAPPEN TO ANYONE ELSE? >> I DON'T
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| 01:13:04 |
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KNOW. I JUST KNOW ABOUT THE BURNING WITH THE BOMBING OF MR. DAMER'S HOME AND HIS BEING MURDERED AND KILLED. ALSO CLYDE KENARD, AS A RESULT OF HIS APPLYING...
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| 01:13:50 |
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BURNINGS ALL ACROSS THE SOUTH, WEREN'T THERE? >> WELL IN '64 WHEN THE
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| 01:13:56 |
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STUDENTS CAME TO MISSISSIPPI, THERE WERE CROSS BURNINGS, CHURCH BURNINGS, THERE WERE BEATINGS, THERE WERE MURDERS. >> NOT ONLY CROSS
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| 01:14:05 |
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BURNINGS, BUT THERE WERE LYNCHINGS, TOO. I BELIEVE IN 1955, YOU KNOW ABOUT THE EMMETT TILL. THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN IN HATTIESBURG, BUT YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT...
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| 01:14:25 |
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WERE ACTUALLY BURNED IN FRONT OF THE HOME OF THE WHITE LABOR LEADER THAT I MENTIONED, HUCK DUNNIGAN AS WELL AS HIS SON IN McCOMB, MISSISSIPPI, THEATENTERPRISE...
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| 01:15:01 |
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THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT MAY HAVE DERAILED A MORE VIOLENT -- >> CAN YOU HEAR HIM? >> OH, I'M
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| 01:15:08 |
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SORRY. YOU SAID THAT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT MAY HAVE DERAILED A MORE VIOLENT REACTION IN THAT COMMUNITY. AND I WONDERED IF YOU COULD EXPAND ON THAT...
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| 01:15:20 |
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SORRY. I JUST DON'T HEAR YOU. >> HE SAID YOU WERE
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| 01:15:23 |
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SAYING THAT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT MAY HAVE DERAILED MORE VIOLENCE IN THE COMMUNITY. >> I BELIEVE THAT'S
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| 01:15:30 |
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TRUE. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THERE WERE TERRIBLE THINGS HAPPENED TO PEOPLE. PEOPLE WERE KILLED. AND -- >> BUT HE'S SAYING HOW DID
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| 01:15:41 |
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THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HELP KEEP DOWN THE VIOLENCE? HOW DO YOU THINK? >> WELL, THE WAY WE DID
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| 01:15:50 |
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IT WAS THAT THE LAWYERS WERE TAUGHT IF THERE WAS SOME INDICATION OF ANYTHING BUILDING UP BY WAY OF VIOLENCE TO ALERT THE FBI AND THEN TO HAVE THE FBI...
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| 01:17:29 |
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AND THEN THE POLITICIANS ALL HAD TO SWITCH BECAUSE THEY THEN RECOGNIZE THAT THEY WERE GOING TO STAY IN OFFICE, AND THEY HAD TO GET THE BLACK VOTE AS...
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| 01:18:21 |
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OKAY. THANK YOU. WE HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION OVER HERE. >>
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| 01:18:24 |
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YES. YOU KNOW, IT'S ONE THING TO BE BLACK AND PART OF THAT COMMUNITY AND TO BE BRAVE, BUT WHAT SORT OF IMPRESSES ME IS THOSE WHITE PEOPLE WHO STOOD UP...
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| 01:18:58 |
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DO YOU REMEMBER THE PHRASE WHITE CITIZENS COUNCIL? THAT WAS WHAT THEY CALLED THE WHITE COLLAR CLAN. PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T WANT TO DO THE VIOLENCE THEMSELVES...
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| 01:19:55 |
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YOU. IN HAYWARD COUNTY, TENNESSEE, WHEN THE -- ALL THE SHARE CROPPERS WERE EVICTED, THERE WAS A WHITE WOMAN THAT RAN A FARM THERE. SHE REFUSED TO...
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| 01:20:31 |
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SHE DIDN'T SUFFER ANY INTIMIDATION OR RETALIATION. >>
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| 01:20:36 |
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THERE WAS SOME NEWSPAPER EDITORS, TOO. CARTER JR. AND THE GREENVILLE DEMOCRATIC TIMES, HAZEL BRANDON SMITH IN LEXINGTON. >> I THINK WE HAVE TIME FOR
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| 01:20:53 |
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ONE MORE QUESTION. >> I AM WONDERING
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| 01:20:56 |
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IF THERE'S ANY EXAMPLE. >> COULD YOU START
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| 01:20:58 |
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OVER? I'M HAVING TROUBLE HEARING. >> CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? >> I WAS
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| 01:21:03 |
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WONDERING IF THERE'S ANY -- DO ANY OF YOU HAVE EXAMPLES OF ANYBODY APOLOGIZING FOR THEIR INJUSTICES? FOR INSTANCE, TO YOUR FATHER OR ANY -- BEING A MISSISSIPPIAN,...
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| 01:21:34 |
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ME, BUT I DO KNOW THE CITY OF HATTIESBURG MADE AN APOLOGY IN REGARDS TO CLYDE CANARD AND UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI AND HE WAS DYING IN PRISON BUT HE...
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| 01:22:13 |
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HIS DEATHBED KIND OF -- DIDN'T GEORGE WALLACE, THE GOVERNOR OF ALABAMA, IN LATER YEARS AND NEAR HIS DEATH, DIDN'T HE KIND OF SOFTEN A BIT AND -- >>...
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| 01:22:35 |
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BE FULLY FAIR TO THE CITY OF HATTIESBURG IF WE DID NOT MENTION AND CONCLUDE, CAROL, BY POINTING OUT THAT HATTIESBURG HAS A BLACK MAYOR, AND HAS FOR A...
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| 01:22:56 |
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THAT, BECAUSE THAT IS TRUE. VERY MUCH SO. >> YOU CAN SAY ONE MORE THING. >>
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| 01:23:05 |
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OKAY. I JUST WANT TO PAY MY RESPECTS TO GORDON FOR WRITING THIS BOOK, BECAUSE AS DAYS GO BY AND YEARS GO BY, WE AMERICANS ARE GOING TO FORGET, HISTORY...
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| 01:24:40 |
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THING? CAN I SAY ONE MORE THING? BE CAREFUL. I JUST HAVE TO ASK ALL OF YOU BECAUSE I REPRESENT THE MEDIA HOW BIG A ROLE DID THE MEDIA PLAY IN THE SUCCESSFUL...
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| 01:25:15 |
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WAS A BIG CHANGE THAT HAPPENED IN MISSISSIPPI, CAROLE, AND THAT WAS WHEN GANNETT MOVED INTO MISSISSIPPI BUYING "THE JACKSON CLAIRERION LEDGER" AND THE...
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| 01:26:06 |
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WANT TO DELAY THIS ENDING AT 7:00. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SAY? >> I WANT TO SAY THAT THE
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| 01:26:12 |
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BEAT REPORTERS FROM THE NORTHERN PAPERS, SPECIFICALLY SIT TON FROM "THE NEW YORK TIMES" AND JACK NELSON FROM THE "LOS ANGELES TIMES" AND MR. ADLER...
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| 01:27:53 |
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WHITE HERO IN JOURNALISM. THE MISSISSIPPI WRITER FOR THE NEW ORLEANS TIMES PICAYUNE. HE WAS A PERSON OF DURNLGCOURAGE, AND WE ALL OWE A GREAT DEBT TO...
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| 01:28:34 |
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GREAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, AND I WANT TO THANK MR. DOAR AND JUDGE MARTIN AND HELEN McCULLOUGH FOR BEING HERE. JUDGE MARTIN WILL SIGN HIS BOOKS DOWN...
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