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...college student would," he wrote in the dispatch that went out to all client A.P. newspapers, "and easily milled among the rioters on the University of Mississippi campus." On that September night in Oxford in 1962, two men were to die in the violence provoked by the registration of Ole Miss's first Negro student, James Mere dith. The A.P.'s Savell reported it all. He also reported the gaunt and commanding presence of onetime Major General Edwin A. Walker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libel: The General v. the Cub | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

...Walker assumed control of the crowd," Savell wrote of the man who had ended a distinguished military career by joining the John Birch Society and resigning his commission. Savell went on to say that the general "led a charge of students against Federal marshals on the Ole Miss campus," was met with a repelling volley of tear gas, then climbed the base of a Confederate monument to dispense tactical advice and rally the scattered segregationists: "Don't let up now. This is a dangerous situation. You must be prepared for possible death. If you are not, go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libel: The General v. the Cub | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

...Tarrant County courtroom in Fort Worth, the general and the 22-year-old cub met again. Walker was there to plead his $2,000,000 libel suit, in which he claimed that the Associated Press had, in effect, charged him with helping to incite the insurrection at Ole Miss. Walker had that very charge leveled against him by the U.S. Government, and he had also been subjected to a psychiatric examination. But doctors found him sane, and a federal grand jury refused to return an indictment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libel: The General v. the Cub | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

...lawyer whom Marshall fondly calls "about as Negro as a white man can get." Greenberg's No. 2 man is a woman, the formidable Negro lawyer and New York State senator, Constance Baker Motley (Columbia '46), who in 1962 calmly convoyed James Meredith through the courts into Ole Miss. "We couldn't have asked for anyone better," says the Justice Department's Burke Marshall. "She could work for anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Constitutional Commandos | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

However, there are curbs on this power. If Barnett and Johnson were charged with contempt of a federal district court, they could well argue for a jury trial under certain provisions of the 1914 Clayton Act. Such a court did in fact order Negro Student James Meredith enrolled at Ole Miss. But Justice Tom Clark, speaking for the majority, put Barnett and Johnson squarely in the hands of the Court of Appeals, which had also enjoined them from interfering. Said Clark: "It would be anomalous for a Court of Appeals to have the power to punish contempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: Cool on Contempt | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

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