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Think how dull life would be if there were no possibility of nuclear war. No funny articles in the CRIMSON. No bomb shelters to build. No Civil Defense practices in the middle of Hayden's fifth concerto. Why, we'd have to return to the outer space scares, or perhaps invent something...
Timothy Jenkins and Marian Wright, students at Yale Law School, and Thomas Hayden, one of two northern students beaten up while working with SNCC in McComb two weeks ago, addressed the group...
Last Wednesday Thomas Hayden, former editor of the Michigan Daily, and Paul Potter, an officer of the National Student Association, were beaten up by a member of an angry mob in McComb, Miss., as a reward for their efforts to compile a neutral report on school integration. The incident, aside from adding to countless instances in which local Southern authorities have failed to provide adequate protection for such serious observers, sharply illustrates the scandal of national press coverage in the South...
...Hayden in currently free-lancing for a number of college newspapers, trying to report events which the national press has chosen to ignore or suppress. When Northern newspapers and weekly news magazines do get around to commenting on lynchings or riots such as those in Monroe, North Carolina, their information is so scanty that the average reader gets only a fuzzy and incomplete picture. Although the wire services generally send writers and photographers to survey the scene, the stories seldom find their way to the pages of newspapers outside the immediate area...
...citizens of the United States have both the right and the obligation to know what's going on in the South. A courageous individual, such as Hayden, should not have to do the job of the national press. He should not be harassed, as he was, by local authorities who pronounced his identification inadequate, or deserted by the police, as he was, when attack seemed imminent. But more important, it should be obvious that a lone reporter is incapable of making up for the failures of national news service. If the American press is really interested in fulfilling its duty...