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Hays, Brooks

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Article in U.S. News and World Report based on excerpts from Hays' book A Southern Moderate Speaks Inside Story of Little Rock ..."Since the Federal Government was responsible for Mr. Blossom's predicament, the Federal Government should have acted to protect him and to uphold its court's orders with civil, not military, power" U. S. marshal deputies accompany the nine Negro students into the Central High School?" I thought it would be proper in the unusual circumstances for him to approach the judge. Within a few minutes he reported back to me that the judge would not talk to him-he merely referred him to U. S. District Attorney Osro Cobb. Blossom then called Cobb, but the district attorney thought he would have to have specific authority from the Department of Justice to seek an order from the federal judge for United States marshal's deputies' help in protecting the Negro students. I called Sherman Adams to ask if he could get such clearance. This illustrates how determined I was to channel everything through Adams. I had brought him into the matter in the first place and I did not propose to bypass him or confuse the situation by multiple contacts, though I was sorely tempted to do so in order to spare him the discomfort of these continued appeals for information. Adams called back to give me a telephone number at which Cobb could reach a responsible top official of the Department of Justice, adding that he thought the matter could be...
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Magazine Paper, 11.25 Long X 8.25 Wide
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March 23, 1959
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