Word: faubus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor Faubus, chief target of the injunction, had received word of his lawyers' walkout while lolling relaxed in a window seat at his executive mansion. Ever since calling out the National Guard he had warded off questions about his "evidence" of violence by promising to produce it in court. Yet his day in court had come, and neither the evidence nor Orval Faubus was there.* Upon hearing that he was no longer even represented (because he had wanted it so), Faubus called for pencil and paper, scratched out an extraordinary statement: "Now begins the crucifixion. There will...
That night, after the injunction had been issued, Faubus appeared on three Little Rock television stations. Inveighing against the "unwarranted action" of Judge Davies, Faubus denounced all his critics.t But he would nonetheless comply with the court order until its "certain reversal on appeal." Said Governor Orval Faubus: "I have issued orders that all units of the Arkansas National Guard stationed at the high schools in Little Rock be removed there as soon as this can be accomplished. They are now gone or are moving from the school grounds...
...they were. The last dozen or so of the 250 National Guardsmen who had moved in on Central High School and the executive mansion two weeks before pulled out quietly as Orval Faubus was speaking. That left the city of Little Rock free to go on about its business-if Orval Faubus, by manufacturing the myth of violence, had not in fact whipped up the reality...
...Arriving at the Southern Governors' Conference in Sea Island, Georgia, Faubus explained to newsmen that he had first called out the guard because 1) integrationists had planned to make a big showcase out of integration in Little Rock. and 2) segregationists, catching wind of the plan had threatened violence to stop it. t Including TIME, for its"colored, slanted and falsified reports" (see Publisher's Letter...
...sooner had Ronald Davies arrived in Little Rock than he was deep in the historic integration case brought on by Governor Orval Faubus' defiance of the U.S. Government. Davies fully understood the delicacy of his situation: he kept to himself, left his Sam Peck Hotel room only to walk to the Federal Court Building across the street. Away from his friends and his family (he has two sons, three daughters), friendly, family-minded Ronald Davies began to understand for the first time what New York's famed Judge Harold Medina once said to him: a judge is alone...