Nextrush,
Just make sure you keep your
facts straight. There are people on this
list that lived it and are not just writing about it.
Mississippi ping.
You can start by having the mod
correct the spelling in the title.
Ole Miss not old miss.
If the blacks ever find out where
the term “Ole Miss” comes from
that will have to be change to.
Maybe the writer will show how the Boston population embraced desegregation readily and were a prime example of racial love and happiness being Yankees and all....
As is the wont of employees of the media today they also revelled in game playing during those days.
Or was it just plain laziness in the case of reporting Edwin Walker's presence at the University of Mississippi? Whichever, the reporting was the basis for Attorney General Robert Kennedy ordering Walker's arrest on the charges of seditious conspiracy, insurrection, and rebellion.
Walker sued and won. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed however saying that there was no reckless disregard for truth. It was the chaos of the riot while under deadline pressure that made the media employee screw up. Now ain't that special! The media employees cherish breaks that they absolutely refuse to give U.S. combat forces in fire fights. I just had to throw that in given today's media shenanigans.
A few years before that Edwin Walker was commander of the Arkansas Military District in Little Rock, he was in charge of the integration of Little Rock High School. Not sure of his rank (brigadier general?) but in 1959 Major General Walker became the commander of the Twenty-fourth Infantry Division in Europe.
As a young officer in W.W.II he commanded the First Special Service Force unit, in the Italian Campaign, that was the forerunner of the Green Berets. In the Korean War he was an artillery commander.
As I remember the events, U.S. combat forces were in Europe to thwart those pesky communism forces' threat to overrun Europe. But, you see, Major General Walker was too anti enemy for a combat commander so the Kennedy Administration relieved him of his command and prepared additional punishment.
General Walker instructed his troops on the nature of Communism using just about the only material available for the popular culture in the days when the elite class was busy destroying the likes of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, i.e., he used John Birch Society material. Thus this military man was anathematized by our elite. Not much has changed has it?
Walker resigned his commission and became active in trying to fix the damage done by the 1950's and beyond CP/USA-led "McCarthyism" frenzy.
Oddly, Lee Harvey Oswald attempted to kill Walker. The FBI matched the bullet found at Walker's residence with fragments recovered in the Kennedy assassination. Oswald had made known his intent to kill Walker and apparently had used the same rifle that he used in Dallas.
Strange, apparently Oswald believed as the Kennedys that Walker was a "dangerous fascist" who should be stopped before he became politically powerful. Apparently others of our anointed class felt the same, Walker was the model for the right-wing military demagogue in the book Seven Days in May (later a movie).
Sorry for the long post but it'd be so easy to accept the liberals' book on Walker, et al.
Walker, Goldwater, et al believed in government closest to the people is the best government. But it became accepted that to believe in "states rights" automatically classified one as a racist (or even a "dangerous fascist") by much of the media in those days.
Hell, even saying that you believe in law and order made you suspect. The left claimed that these were "code words" and often mocked them with "law'n order."
One of the things that I admired Maj. Gen. Walker for is that he resigned, he did not retire. Some dispute this but I believed at the time that it was true and I recall reading where Congress granted him a pension years later when he was near death.
Can we PLEASE correct the error in the title? It’s OLE MISS, not old miss.
Thanks!
MM (in TX)