Word: iberia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meetings. Witness Kenneth Paisant, from New Orleans' Twelfth Ward, Jackson's home district, described his ward meeting. "After the delegates were nominated, Jackson said, 'Our delegates are elected,' led his group from the room, even turned out the lights." Witness J. Paulin Duhe of New Iberia testified that in his (the Third) congressional district, there was no Jackson rump convention "because they couldn't find anybody to rump." But the state committee had named two pro-Taft delegates in that district anyway, contending that the Wisdom meeting was not properly advertised...