Word: barnetts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Daddy-Bird & Bobby-Sox. Consider former Governor Ross Barnett, 69, an archsegregationist who wants his job back. He urges listeners to read Theodore Bilbo's Separation or Mongrelization of the Races-Take Your Choice, insists that "the South has been right all along," and twits Congressman John Bell Williams, a formidable rival, for playing footsie in Washington with "Daddy-Bird Johnson and Bobby-Sox Kennedy." But he also acknowledges that "the law must be obeyed, and advances made in the state's economy and educational program...
That, clearly, was too much to hope. Under fire as a "weak-kneed, wishy-washy liberal," as Barnett put it, Winter felt obliged to declare: "As a fifth-generation Mississippian whose grandfather rode with General Forrest, I was born a segregationist and raised a segregationist. I have always defended this position. I defend it now." Nonetheless, he has also managed to steer the debate toward Mississippi's myriad shortcomings-which include the nation's lowest per capita income ($1,751 v. a national average...
Among the other six candidates, either Barnett or Williams is expected to go up against Winter in an Aug. 29 run-off between the top two vote getters. Governor Paul Johnson, prevented by the state constitution from succeeding himself, finds himself instead in the odd position of campaigning for the lieutenant-governorship, a job he held under Barnett. Among Johnson's five opponents: Byron De La Beckwith, under indictment for the 1963 murder of Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers...
Beating the Queue. The Russia that Intourist offers, according to recent visitors, is long on art, buildings and the accomplishments of the Soviet Union (see color), but short on contact with the people. Still, as Mrs. A. Barnett Blakemore, wife of the dean of the Chicago Theological Seminary, found, "there's hardly a place where you can get more for your travel dollar...
...enough. The experienced defense lawyer was Hugh Cunningham, law partner of ex-Governor Ross Barnett and high among those who sprang Byron De La Beckwith, the accused killer of N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers. Under Cunningham's skilled guidance, one by one the eight defendants told the all-white jury that either they were somewhere else during the riot or, if they were present, "I never hit nobody." A parade of character witnesses, including a local judge, warmly vouched for the defendants' reputations for truth. Lawyer Cunningham then attacked Police Captain Turner's credibility by producing other character...