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    "ocrText": "-\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSeptember 24, 1957\nJames C. Hagerty, Press Secretary to the President\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nU. S. NAVAL BASE\nNEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND\nEXECUTIVE ORDER\n10730\nPROVIDING ASSISTANCE FOR THE REMOVAL OF AN OBSTRUCTION\nOF JUSTICE WITHIN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS\nWHEREAS on September 23, 1957, I issued Proclamation No. 3204\nreading in part as follows:\n\"WHEREAS certain persons in the State of Arkansas,\nindividually and in unlawful assemblages, combinations, and\nconspiracies, have wilfully obstructed the enforcement of\norders of the United States District Court for the Eastern\nDistrict of Arkansas with respect to matters relating to en-\nrollment and attendance at public schools, particularly at\nCentral High School, located in Little Rock School District,\nLittle Rock, Arkansas; and\n\"WHEREAS such wilful obstruction of justice hinders the\nexecution of the laws of that state and of the United States, and\nmakes it impracticable to enforce such laws by the ordinary\ncourse of judicial proceedings; and\n'WHEREAS such obstruction of justice constitutes a\ndenial of the equal protection of the laws secured by the Con-\nstitution of the United States and impedes the course of justice\nunder those laws:\n\"NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER,\nPresident of the United States, under and by virtue of the authority\nvested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States,\nincluding Chapter 15 of Title 10 of the United States Code, par-\nticularly sections 332, 333 and 334 thereof, do command all\npersons engaged in such obstruction of justice to cease and desist\ntherefrom, and to disperse forthwith; and\nWHEREAS the command contained in that Proclamation has not been\nobeyed and wilful obstruction of enforcement of said court orders still\nexists and threatens to continue:\nNOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the\nConstitution and Statutes of the United States, including Chapter 15 of\nTitle 10, particularly sections 332, 333 and 334 thereof, and section 301\nof Title 3 of the United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows:"
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