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The JFK Library continued to release tapes from the Kennedy administration, consisting of nearly 260 hours of conversations between Kennedy and his aides, throughout the year.
At one point, Kennedy asked Cox, who served as Kennedy’s solicitor general, about the prospect of arresting Barnett as well as General Edwin A. Walker, a former military officer who is said to have urged an anti-integration crowd to resist federal actions violently.
Despite the severity of the situation at the Oxford, Miss. campus, Kennedy tried to lighten up his aides through jokes. “I haven’t had such an interesting time since the Bay of Pigs,” Kennedy said on the tape.
Yet Kennedy was worried by delays in the deployment of two battalions of Army military police to assist U.S. marshals, and is heard in one tape asking his aides, “I wonder if it takes this long to get everybody ready?”
According to Lincoln, Kennedy wanted to have recorded conversations to help him write his. But the existence of the tapes was not revealed until 1973, about ten years after the president’s assassination.