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...Guard were placed in federal service, safely out of the hands of Governor Orval Faubus. who had used them to defy the U.S. Government. Army Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor called Fort Campbell, Ky. and assigned the 327th Battle Group of his old outfit, the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division, to bring law to Little Rock. Tough, battle-tried Major General Edwin Walker was placed in command of all troops in the Arkansas district. Air Force Secretary James Douglas soon had eight C-130 and 38 C-123 transport planes on the way from Tennessee to Fort Campbell...
That night, just eight hours after President Eisenhower signed his orders, the first trucks of the 101st Airborne drove up to Central High. It was one of the nation's most painful moments, and the first use of U.S. troops in a Southern racial crisis since Reconstruction days. Explained the President in a radio-TV speech to the nation: "The very basis of our individual rights and freedoms rests upon the certainty that the President and the executive branch of Government will support and insure the carrying out of the decisions of the federal courts, even, when necessary, with...
Then, overwhelmed by the injustice of it all, Orval Faubus recalled that as a World War II officer in the 35th Infantry Division he had "helped rescue" the 101st Airborne from Bastogne (by the time the 35th arrived on the scene, it was the Germans who needed rescuing from the Screaming Eagles). Cried Orval Faubus: "Today we find the members of the famed division, which I helped rescue, in Little Rock, Ark., bludgeoning innocent bystanders, with bayonets in the backs of schoolgirls, and the warm, red blood of patriotic American citizens staining the cold, naked, unsheathed knives. In the name...
...vowed a speaker at a Kiwanis meeting in Marshall, Texas, whereupon the Kiwanians refused to give their customary pledge of allegiance to the flag. In Jacksonville an Air Corps veteran mailed his four Air Medals and six battle stars to the President for distribution among the soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division. In Columbia, S.C., Governor George Bell Timmerman Jr. resigned his commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve so that he could not be called into service. In Albany, Ga., persons unknown set fire to two buildings on the campus of the Albany State College (for Negroes), caused an estimated...
...difficult to see that the Administration could have acted otherwise. With a different combination of circumstances, the necessity for force might have been averted, but without the 101st Airborne Division in Little Rock, integration would not be a fact today. Even more important, a mob would have succeeded in mocking the highest law of the United States...