Word: meridian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Meridian COFO office, for example, called the FBI at 9 p.m. on June 21, notifying them that the trio of workers was missing. Had the FBI acted then, with a routine visit or phone call to local jails, Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman might be alive today...
...illusions that the millenium will soon descend on Meridian or Jackson or Batesville. At best, within a reasonable number of years, there will be a stalemate of mutual respect. Only then will the longer process of assimilation and acculturation take place...
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...
President Johnson ordered 200 sailors from the Meridian Naval Auxiliary Air Station into Neshoba County to join in the search (the White House, through a mistake, at first announced that the sailors were marines, bringing screams of anguish from segregationists about another federal invasion of the South). Armed only with sticks to protect themselves against the water moccasins and rattlers that abound in the area, the sailors tucked and taped up their pants legs to ward off mosquitoes and chiggers, began poking under every bush and peering down every abandoned well...