Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NEWS ENCORE (NBC, 6:20-7:20 p.m.). David Brinkley is "Our Man on the Mississippi," taking a camera cruise from Lake Itasca, Minn., to Pilottown, La., and never the Twain shall meet. Repeat...
Unwise Ardor. If Javits were indeed to win the G.O.P. vice-presidential nomination, what impact might he have? Conservatives, mostly south of the Ma-son-Dixon line and west of the Mississippi, argue that he would hurt the party. Actually, while he would no doubt hurt their feelings, it is hard to see how he could help but help. "His liberality bothers me," said Denver County G.O.P. Chairman John Wogan Jr., but he felt impelled to add: "Since the purpose is to win, we might have to take him." "Let's face it," said New Mexico's Republican Gubernatorial Candidate...
Save for the road signs and the scrawny pine trees lining the road, the men who took up lames Meredith's protest march (TIME, June 17) could have been anywhere but in Mississippi. State highway patrolmen - from the same force that had walked off the job as mobs howled their hatred for Meredith at the University of Mississippi in 1962 - hovered around like mother hens; highway crews even mowed the high grass on the road shoulders to smooth the marchers' path. For veteran civil rights demonstrators, the atmosphere could hardly have seemed more unreal if the Ku Klux...
...Dirt!" Characteristically, Meredith had invited neither the companionship nor the moral support of civil rights Establishmentarians; only half a dozen personal friends were at his side. But by the time he got to De Soto County across the Mississippi-Tennessee border, there was a small entourage of newsmen, along with some 15 Mississippi state troopers, sheriff's deputies...
Ronald Alford, 24, was having a hectic day. Illness and vacation had left him the only reporter in the Memphis bureau of the Associated Press. That morning he had been trudging a dusty road south of the city covering James Meredith's march into Mississippi, but at 1:30 he had returned to the unmanned office. Now the news was coming through that Meredith had been shot, and Alford was in a bind...