Under Fire at OLE Miss
Under Fire at OLE Miss By:Dick Gentry Published on 2014-01-01 by 'UNDER FIRE AT OLE MISS'-NEW BOOK TAKES CLOSER LOOK AT 1962 RIOT |Tales of a Roving Mississippi Reporter in Far-Off America| ..|.Only two people there knew it was all a game: Me and Ross Barnett.|-James Meredith Few of today's populace recognize the name |James Meredith.| Fewer understand the significance of Sept. 30, 1962 when President John F. Kennedy declared martial law and called out U.S. Troops to restore order on the campus of The University of Mississippi. |The last battle of the Civil War| is fading from the public consciousness. The riot resulted from Meredith's quest to become the first black man to enroll at all-white Ole Miss. The attempt succeeded, but not without hundreds of injuries, including the deaths of two men. To this day, no one has any idea how they died. That is about to change. In Dick Gentry's new book, UNDER FIRE AT OLE MISS, the former Ole Miss student and professional jour...