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Transcription: [00:35:03]

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
That's the end of the morning session, and we will, we should be back here - Wait! Hold it! We should be back here promptly at 1:15; if you're not, we're starting the program.
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{SILENCE}
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{Unknown speaker asks question}
That was perhaps not directly related, but on the other hand, it's not completely unrelated either. How do you think that the assassination of President Kennedy will affect things? First, uh, the socialist party because it had a rough going in some points in its history and second the Negro drive which has also had a considerable rough going.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Well personally at this point, I don't know what you've got it, optimistic or what. I honestly don't think either that it's going to affect either very much. They will continue to have about the struggle ahead. I am very thankful that President Johnson has said as much as he has about Civil Rights and the civil rights bill.
[00:36:05]

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
As for the socialists, it doesn't matter. It is one of the adversities of life that Oswald, the presumed almost a certain assassin, was a psychopath of what he would call elect. The psychopathic nature of most people in the South is of the right and the racists.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
And the general denunciation of these conditions that make such things possible in America is still an art.
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{Unknown speaker asks an inaudible question}
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
I'm awfully sorry, I'm getting old and somewhat deaf so you have to speak kinda loud.
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{Unknown speaker}
You feel like the atmosphere of the racism among whites in the South uh contributed to uh the assassination?
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
In the general way, yes, the one that has no right to Mississippi. Of course, not one has no right just to know alter the racists and assassinate the president that seems pretty clear.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
And for their sake, they ought to be tranquiled if none of their wild men [[?]]. But you must remember I've seen distributed people in New York a little pamphlet that begins on the outside in big letters "Kill" haven't any of you ever seen it? It's what I think it was issued but with no name on it by one of the offshoots of the American army. I'm not sure which one.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
And on the back is a picture of a hand holding a noose. A hangman's noose. And it says for traitors. Kennedy should be impeached at the suggestion of this.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
No lefties have done anything so mad, so crazy, so terrible. I live in Mississippi, and a lot of the time, when I [[?]] he thought that President Eisenhower or even later President Kennedy had called himself.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
I was one of the people who would like to see President Eisenhower lead some children into that school in Arkansas. What happened to me in Mississippi that our men here know a great deal more than I. But I think it would've been great to have him go into Mississippi.
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{Unknown speaker asks question}
You think that President Johnson will have any uh better luck against the word in beginning and understanding with Southern leaders that he they will accept and handle things that they would not accept.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
[[Interrupting]] I think they may, because he is after all a Texan. And Texas has got a lot to make up for. Dallas is a disgrace, not so much the assassination of the president but the subsequent business was disgraceful.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
I mean, it's general record is pretty disgraceful. But I think that the great majority of the people want to repudiate it. I'm sure that this was an added spurt of President Johnson.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
I like very well the tone of his - speaks to Congress and he speaks to the people. I'm quite hopeful, and I think - I even dare to hope that to some extent some feeling of regret and remorse will make people feel as a monument to Kennedy. We should have a civil rights bill, and a very strong one.
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