March Resumed At Point Of Shooting

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31081, 9 June 1966, Page 17

March Resumed At Point Of Shooting

(N.Z. Press Association —Copyright?

HERNANDO, MISSISSIPPI, June 8.

Dr. Martin Luther King and other Negro leaders resumed James Meredith’s march through Mississippi yesterday at the spot where a sniper shot him in the back the previous day.

Only about 20 men marched today—after State troopers ordered them off the roadway—but leaders said they expected several hundred would turn out tomorrow.

They stopped for the day at a bridge eight miles from the spot where Meredith was shot, and went back to Memphis for a mass meeting.

Mr Meredith was to join the march to Jackson, more than 200 miles away, when he

is released from a Memphis hospital—probably within a few days. Governor Paul Johnson announced in Jackson that he would provide “sufficient policemen and any other State forces ... to see that these demonstrators get all the marching they want, provided they behave themselves, commit n acts of violence nor take a position of provocative defiance.” He urged Mississippians to stay away from “these agitators an<-’ radical politicians.” Several National Guard units were alerted.

Four highway patrol cars drove along the route of the march The marchers sang as they walked and traffic was very light There were no hecklers.