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...least, they expected to get a more intimate glimpse of Kennedy's active social life. Instead, they were handed three volumes of transcripts from meetings on economic policies and one volume of discussions during the rioting at the University of Mississippi in October 1962, when James Meredith became the first black to register there. Some of the Mississippi conversations had been published in earlier books...
...advisers tried to direct events in distant Mississippi was broken by moments of levity. "I haven't had such an interesting time since the Bay of Pigs," J.F.K. said wryly as he sought to outmaneuver Mississippi's Governor Ross Barnett, who had twice blocked Meredith's registration at the university, inflaming racial tensions over the issue. Kennedy had sent some 500 federal marshals to the Oxford campus to protect Meredith as he arrived, and had federalized units of the National Guard in Mississippi. But the marshals were besieged by angry white mobs before Army troops arrived...
...poll was conducted by Richard J. Appel, Martin F. Cohen, Michael F.P. Derning, Jesse M. Fried, Christopher J. Georges, Laura E. Gamez, Meredith E. Greene, Tammy Huang, Mary S. Humes, Holly A. Idelton, Rebecca J. Joseph, Charles T. Kurzman, Marie B. Morria, Catherine L Schmidt, John D. Solomon and Janet A. Titus...
...James Meredith, the first black to attend the University of Mississippi, says he's a prophet and is going to guide his followers into self-sufficiency and an understanding of the value of work. His church, he says, will be structured "like the Catholic Church, except it wouldn't have a professional clergy; in that respect it would be more like the Mormons...
Appearing five days a week, for an hour each day, Fantasy operates in two ways. Audience members can have their fantasies fulfilled at once or homes viewers can write in, hope for the best, and wait. Actress Meredith MacRae takes the Fantasy "truck" across the country and stops at the houses of fortunate correspondents. One woman described her wish to give her husband an orange tree, something he's always wanted. Another wife hoped to win a drum set for her fireman husband because he had to sell his old one. Admittedly, not owning a drum set of a fruit...