Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite its high purpose, the Negro revolution breeds violence and death. Among its victims have been Baltimore Postman William Moore, shot on an Alabama highway while on a one-man civil rights march; Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers, shot in the back by a bushwhacker; and those four Negro girls killed in the bombing of a Birmingham church...
Deputy Price followed them to the edge of town, later said he saw their car head south down Mississippi Highway 19 toward Meridian. Price was the last person known to have seen Schwerner, Chancy and Goodman. That was at 10:30 Sunday night...
When the three failed to show up in Meridian, COFO workers called the FBI, which at that time had no evidence on which to enter the case, and the Mississippi Highway Patrol, which declined to do more than issue a routine missing-persons bulletin. Then, Tuesday afternoon, a telephone tip on the station wagon's whereabouts came to the FBI office in Meridian. Agents rushed to the northeast corner of Neshoba County, found the gutted car in a blackberry thicket 40 feet off State Highway 21 near the dank Bogue Chitto Swamp. The site, twelve miles northeast of Philadelphia...
Side by Side. After the discovery of the car, Attorney General Robert Kennedy ordered a full-scale search by an army of FBI agents he had ordered into the state. The Mississippi Highway Patrol came alive, worked with the federals in beating the swamps of Neshoba County and questioning rural residents. President Johnson sent one time CIA Director Allen Dulles to Jack son to confer with Mississippi Governor Paul Johnson on the state's law-enforcement capabilities-and its willingness to cooperate. After a one-day trip, Dulles reported back that "a very real and very difficult problem which...
...Governor of Amazonas state was found to have staked out a huge ranch along the banks of the Amazon, added an airstrip, dock and warehouse, and used it to run up a whirlwind trade in smuggled goods. Another former state Governor coolly pocketed an entire $6,400,000 highway appropriation, once appointed 600 men to the single post of state taxidermist-enough to stuff every man, woman and child in his state. Then there was the former president of Brazil's state savings banks, who became a millionaire by dipping into the till. His mistake was once inviting General...