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NOW AVAILABLE: We Believed We Were Immortal

August 1, 2017 By Yoknapatawpha Press

On the 55th anniversary of the 1962 crisis at Ole Miss, author Kathleen Wickham traces the footsteps of twelve American journalists and examines the unsolved murder of Paul Guihard, a French reporter, the only journalist killed during the civil rights movement. In We Believed We Were Immortal: Twelve Reporters Who Covered the 1962 Integration Crisis at Ole Miss, Wickham details the challenges faced by these journalists and how they managed to overcome beatings, snipers, and a rogue governor to file the news reports reprinted here.

Kathleen Wickham photo by William Doyle

As James Meredith observes, the strength of the book is “the reporters Wickham chose to write about.” Those reporters are Claude Sitton of The New York Times; Karl Fleming, of Newsweek; Sidna Brower, Daily Mississippian student editor, Moses Newson, of the Baltimore Afro-American, CBS reporter Dan Rather, Richard Valeriani of NBC, Michael Dorman of Newsday, freelance photographer Flip Schulke, Fred Powledge of the Atlanta Journal/Constitution, Texas videographer Gordon Yoder, Dorothy Gilliam of The Washington Post, and Neal Gregory of the Memphis Commercial Appeal.

“Here are flesh-and-blood reporters,” writes Jerry Mitchell of the Clarion-Ledger, “whose dispatches from the war-torn University of Mississippi campus remind us what real journalism looks like and why we need it now more than ever.”

Reporters Featured

Bob Schieffer
Paul Guihard
Dan Rather
Richard Valeriani
Flip Schulke
Fred Powledge
Moses Newson
Michael Dorman
Claude Sitton
Neal Gregory
Dorothy Gilliam
Karl Fleming
Sidna Brower
Gordon Yoder

 

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