Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret.

I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.

This campus is aware that the state of Mississippi and the national press view this

as the most critical time in its 114 year history.

Meredith, in the words of Attorney General Robert Kennedy, will be escorted by more than one, but less than five federal marshals, who will be armed with a federal court order that this all-white university admit its first Negro student.

Governor Barnett, we're going to leave these summons here with you, and I want to explain to you that the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit entered a temporary restraining order at 8.30 this morning in joining you from interfering in any way with the registration of James Meredith at the University of Mississippi. Hello everyone and welcome back to the podcast. Today's episode is episode 220. And yes, it's a continuation of the many wander that we're on covering James Meredith and the Oxford riots. I know, I know. You're suffering from a little bit of battle fatigue, aren't you? No pun intended.

This has been a long couple of episodes, and I get it.

And I hope you'll just be patient for a little bit longer, and we'll finish this up.

And then we'll begin to tie it into some more interesting themes that interconnect the radical right-wing

elements that lead back to great suspicions about the Kennedy assassination. Understanding the

context under which all of this occurred is critical. So without further ado, let's listen to the

rest of episode 220 of JFK, The Enduring Secret. The When, by one account, a piece of lead pipe crashed down on a marshal's helmet liner,

the marshals responded with tear gas.

By that time, the marshals had begun to reap the consequences of Robert Kennedy's

unplanned decision to move Meredith to the campus on Sunday. Katzenbach later observed that

although enough officers were present at the scene to provoke the crowds, there were too few to

overcome the violence that resulted.

Their effectiveness was further diminished by a hasty deployment that disrupted their organization and caused them to leave bullhorns and other equipment behind.

Those disadvantaged, notwithstanding, the marshals stood their ground under considerable punishment

and obeyed their orders to keep their sidearms holstered unless Meredith himself was in danger,

except in three cases. In those instances, marshals used their sidearms against a fire truck,

a fire hose, and a speeding driverless car.

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