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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
...the statements of Professor of [[?]] in his enunciation of the lost state of Mississippi.
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You think this is a um an extremely important breakthrough or [[cough]]
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of his uh statements go [[?]] unheeded?
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Wow.
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[[cough]]
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
Well, I think uh that that is an important breakthrough and that what's hoped for is that uh that the rest of the country will heed what he says.
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And that what you have down in Mississippi and I think is typical of other parts of the deep South is in fact they have a closed society
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and that the problem is broader than this just innovation, it's the problem of whether or not you can have in the deep South now an open society.
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And I'd like to say in connection with that in regard to the question about Kennedy's assassination that uh um
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Mississippi of course ran an election, in which the major theme in the past month and a half was K.O. the Kennedys.
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And that uh now the Kennedys are in fact K.O.ed and those billboards if you ride through the state are still up.
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Big billboards and they say, 'K.O. the Kennedys'.
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And the the theme of the election for both the Republicans and the Democrats were that the Kennedys are in fact a uh menace to the national political scene,
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and uh the administration and themselves have to go.
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And I think that that has a great deal to do with creating the kind of atmosphere in which somebody can get away with uh [[cough]] uh-
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[[cross talk]] pulling the trigger.
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 4"}
[[cross talk]] May I butt in [[?]]
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if it isn't true but the main issue at election that re-election in Mississippi was which group hated Kennedy worst.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
That's true and the uh the Republicans were saying that uh what they had to do was establish a two party system ah in order to act as, each party to act as segregation watchdogs over each other and to prevent the national administration from gaining control in Mississippi.
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The Democrats were saying was that what you needed was just one party for exactly the same reason that that was the only way to maintain control.
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Both of their themes was that they both uh could outdo the Kennedy brothers.
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