| TROUBLE BREWS IN MISSISSIPPI First black American registers at the University causing discord, Kennedy speaks on the matter. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 8821 |
| Catalog #: | 166409 | |
| Clip Number: | 166409-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 3665 A | |
| Timecode: | 01:42:02 - 01:45:38 | |
| Location: | Oxford, Mississippi | |
| Year Shot: | 1962 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BEHAVIOR, HUMAN: Racism DEMONSTRATIONS: Protest DEMONSTRATIONS: Student LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Mississippi MILITARY: National Guard OCCUPATIONS: Law Enforcement, Police PERSONALITIES: Kennedy, John F ( JFK ) | |
| Description: | TROUBLE BREWS IN MISSISSIPPI First black American registers at the University causing discord, Kennedy speaks on the matter. Oxford, Mississippi MS James Meredith walking along street. POV View down street in Oxford, Mississippi. Good shot of classic cars parked along the street and looks typical of 1960s Main Street, Small Town, USA. MS of the university buildings. MS Front of building has Roman style columns and clock tower with a monument in front of the building itself. MS another university building with Roman columns. POV from car of federal troops standing about on the side of the road. Cut to crowds congregated on either side of the street (some are carrying cameras) with the federal troops standing in the middle of the street standing guard. CU of Governor Ross Barnett in car speaking man in a suit. Views of crowd applauding. President John F Kennedy (JFK) speaks in a nationwide address (September 30 1962), "Americans in short are free to disagree with the law, but not to disobey it. For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful and no mob however unruly or boistrous is entitled to defy a court of law. If this country should ever reach the point where any man or group of men by force or threat of force could long deny the commands of our court and our constitution then no law would stand free from doubt. No judge would be sure of his writ and no citizen would be safe from his neighbors." Speech followed by views of federal troops standing guard in Oxford. National guard and US Marshals patrol the town and enter on jeeps armed with guns. Goes silent at 01.44.08 with general views of Oxford, the university and troops until end. Some footage repeats and some is new views. Includes sign that states "Welcome to Ole Miss" erected by the Cardinal Club. | |
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