Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret.

I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.

An address to the nation by the President concerning the enrollment of James Meredith at the University of Mississippi from the President's office at the White House, September 30th, 1962. Good evening, my fellow citizens. The orders of the court, in the case of Meredith versus Fayer,

are beginning to be carried out.

Mr. James Meredith is now in residence

on the campus of the University of Mississippi.

This has been accomplished thus far

without the use of National Guard or other troops.

And it is to be hoped that the law enforcement officers of the state of Mississippi and

the federal marshals will continue to be sufficient in the future.

All students, members of the faculty, and public officials in both Mississippi and the nation,

will be able, it is hoped, to return to their normal activities with full confidence in the integrity of American law.

This is, as it should be, for our nation is founded on the principle that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty,

and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

The law which we obey includes the final rulings of the courts, as well as the enactment

of our legislative bodies.

Even among law-abiding men, few laws are universally loved, but they are uniformly respected

and not resisted.

Americans are free and short to disagree with the law, but not to disobey

it. For any government of laws and not of man, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob,

however unruly or boisterous, 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

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