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...Orval Faubus seemed to find the Hays efforts simply hilarious; time after time his raucous laughter boomed out of the second-floor study where he was conferring with Hays. For his own part, Brooks Hays could not see the humor of the situation. Said he: "Arkansas does not deserve to be this battleground-no, we surely don't. This should have been fought in a state where there was genuine feeling on the subject of race...
That was the whole point. To set himself up as a segregationist hero, Orval Faubus had chosen to manufacture violence in Little Rock and make a dramatic issue of integration in a city long untroubled by major racial difficulties. His refusal to back down put the matter squarely up to Judge Davies (see box) and the U.S. district court where Faubus had been summoned to show cause why a temporary injunction should not be issued against...
Unalterable Stand. The smallish courtroom on the west end of Little Rock's granite Federal Court Building was crowded to capacity (about 130)-but Orval Faubus was conspicuously absent. He satisfied the requirements of the summons by sending three lawyers, including Democratic State Committee Chairman Tom Harper...
...walkout while lolling relaxed in a window seat at his executive mansion. Ever since calling out the National Guard he had warded off questions about his "evidence" of violence by promising to produce it in court. Yet his day in court had come, and neither the evidence nor Orval Faubus was there.* Upon hearing that he was no longer even represented (because he had wanted it so), Faubus called for pencil and paper, scratched out an extraordinary statement: "Now begins the crucifixion. There will be no crossexamination, no evidence presented for the other [Faubus] side...
That night, after the injunction had been issued, Faubus appeared on three Little Rock television stations. Inveighing against the "unwarranted action" of Judge Davies, Faubus denounced all his critics.t But he would nonetheless comply with the court order until its "certain reversal on appeal." Said Governor Orval Faubus: "I have issued orders that all units of the Arkansas National Guard stationed at the high schools in Little Rock be removed there as soon as this can be accomplished. They are now gone or are moving from the school grounds...