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Shortly afterward, Meredith arrived from Memphis aboard a twin-engined U.S. border patrol plane, climbed into a border patrol automobile, and rode to the campus, escorted by a caravan of marshals with black, stubby tear-gas guns in their hands. The cavalcade swept onto the campus through the little-used West Gate and deposited Meredith at Baxter Hall with a guard of 24 marshals...
During the next few hours, additional military units poured into Oxford in a swelling tide that by early morning had engulfed the campus and the town. Shortly before 8 a.m., Marshal McShane and two other men accompanied Meredith in a car to the battered Lyceum to register. They met with no resistance. Meredith listed his academic goal as a degree in political science, claimed credits (from extension courses) that would enable him to get a degree in a year and a half...
...only prisoner with a claim to fame was Edwin A. Walker. He had arrived in Mississippi the day before the battle, proclaiming that the court orders on Meredith were part of "the conspiracy of the crucifixion by Antichrist conspirators of the Supreme Court." On the night of the battle, he was observed by newsmen and a campus minister to be holding forth at a sort of informal command post. Every now and then somebody would run up to him and ask for military counsel. One man who got close to him reported that "there was a wild, dazed look...
...climate of violence receded. Meredith's campus guard shrank to three or even two marshals, without helmets or visible weapons, hovering discreetly in the background. Meredith even saw direct signs of thaw. As he climbed the steps of a classroom building on his third day of classes, a student seated on the steps said hello to him (the student later got punched in the face for his courtesy). In the cafeteria next day, a student from his home town of Kosciusko came over to his table and chatted with him briefly. And in a political science class, a student...
...such signs may have been perilously deceptive. And it will be a long time before Meredith can safely walk around the campus with no escort...