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Transcription: [00:44:14]

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
-- also take it. In dear of the circumstance of the last great [[?]] Mr. Thomas pointed out to Thompton. [[?]] right statements to the new president.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
As your organization and those you work with oppose to, call a, [[interruption]] at least unofficially, suspension or a moratorium on active demonstrations and protests or whether or view uh the best strategy.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Well, I'd like to let our chairman answer that question, but, and I might support what he says by saying that there's been no talk around here about any type of moratorium, but maybe he has something he'd want to say.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
[[Side conversation]] Want me to go ahead?
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
There's been no discussion here on moratorium, nor has there been any discussion with his folks so far as we know of in any of the civil rights organizations. Now, nor has anyone approached us about calling a moratorium.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Uh, and we might just point out that it was very interesting that all over the TV, the government sent Henry Cabot Lodge to Vietnam Sunday night, even before the president was buried, uh, to continue the work of this country.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
And, uh in addition to that, President Johnson delivered his message Wednesday about the state of the nation so that the government is not calling a moratorium.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
And uh, so you know, not that we're gonna follow the government all the time, but I don't see where it's relevant for us to call a moratorium because Negros are still denied the right to vote.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
We still can't go into some of these restaurants, just thirty miles from here! We will be segregated in parts of Virginia and parts of Maryland! In Cambridge, Maryland, you can't even enter a public accommodation place at this moment.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
So that it would be sort of derelict on our part to call it a moratorium. What we would hope, would be that the segregationists would feel that they have a sense of responsibility to grab the demands for which the president lives.
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{Movement, person asking inaudible question}
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{SPEAKER name="Unknown Speaker"}
Well, the question was the wide reaction to Mississippi to the president's death. Now, we don't have any real detail on that.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
We did send uh one of uh field secretary's wife downtown in Jackson. He reported back that they, that the reaction was one of indifference, or suppressed joy.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Um, there's a report that uh um from Millsaps College of uh some of the students who expressed real sorrow, and some shame, for being harassed by some of their fellow students, as a report of one class uh.
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