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...blocking Meredith's entry in open defiance of a court order expressly enjoining him from interfering, Barnett chose a collision course. Such conflicts are rare, if only because it is so obvious that in a showdown of force the Federal Government will prevail. Except for three Confederate Governors arrested after the Civil War, only one incumbent state Governor-Warren Terry McCray of Indiana, in 1924-has ever been sentenced to imprisonment under federal law, and he was convicted of misuse of the mails, a felony that had nothing to do with a conflict of federal and state powers...
...Barnett's overt defiance confronted President Kennedy with a grim dilemma. He could not let Barnett get away with persisting in his defiance; that would invite defiance all over the South, subverting not only the Negroes' progress toward justice but the entire federal system. But the use of federal force against a state also damages the federal system. And as practical Democrats, John and Robert Kennedy had to reflect upon the prospect that military intervention in Mississippi might be politically disastrous for the Democratic Party in the South...
...failed three times. Now it set out on a fourth attempt, and Attorney General Kennedy upped the escorting force level to two dozen marshals. Late in the week they set out in a motor caravan from the U.S. naval air station at Memphis, Tenn., 80 miles from Oxford. But Barnett, meanwhile, had also mustered stronger forces...
...Lull. The following morning, Governor Barnett was scheduled to appear before the Court of Appeals in New Orleans to answer to charges of contempt. As was expected, he stayed in Mississippi. The court tried him in absentia, found him guilty, gave him four days to "purge himself" of the contempt, and set a stern penalty if he failed to comply: $10,000-a-day fine, and confinement in the custody of the U.S. Attorney General...
...with a speech reporting to the nation on the Mississippi crisis. Then he ordered 1,500 U.S. Army troops to stand by in Memphis, and put the Mississippi National Guard into federal service-for use if needed. A threat of serious violence still lurked ahead, but Barnett had reason to try to avoid it. He had already made himself a hero to his fellow Mississippians, and except for the fanatics, they could hardly expect or want him to carry on any further in a struggle that he and Mississippi were bound to lose. In terms of practical politics, Barnett could...