McAPUSH: Abby Ellingsen: President Calling podcast

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Friday, August 9, 2013

Abby Ellingsen: President Calling podcast

I decided to listen to 15 minutes of JFK and his phone conversations with Ross Barnett about the Mississippi Crisis. When I realized that these phone conversations I was listening to were all secretly recorded I found it to be kind of an underhanded move by Kennedy, but when listening to more I found that it was a good idea on his part. All the time when he was talking to Governor Barnett, Kennedys main focus was the safety of Meredith and the safety of the state police and to make sure at all times that no mobs were formed. Unfortunately in one of the phone conversations we found out that one state police officer was killed because of a riot while trying to remove Meredith from the university. When Kennedy addresses the nation about the final decision of Meredith being accepted into the university and being allowed to study there, he seems to have some sympathy in his voice towards the people who didn't want Meredith going to an once all-white university, but then tells them that this is a step in the right direction for the nation and that with this the nation can grow.