Press copy of Televised Remarks of the President to the Nation on the University of Mississippi, 30 September 1962
Press copy of President John F. Kennedy's radio and television address to the nation regarding desegregation and racially motivated violence at the University of Mississippi. In his speech the President regrets the necessity for any action by the Federal Government, but explai...
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OCR Page 1 of 5FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, SEPTEMBER 30, 1962
OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETERY
THE WHITE HOUSE
TELEVISED REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT
TO THE NATION, SEPTEMBER 30, 1962
Good evening, my fellow citizens.
The orders of the court in the case of Meredith
versus Fairiare beginning to be carried out. Mr. James Meredith
is now in residence on the campus of the University of
Mississippi.
This has been accomplished thus far withoutthe use
of National Guard or other troops. And it is to be hoped that
the law enforcement officers of the State of Mississippi and
the Federal Marshals will continue to be sufficient in the
future.
All students, members of the faculty, and public
officials in both Mississippi and the Nation will be able, it
is hoped; to return to their normal activities with full
confidence in the integrity of American law.
This is as it should be, for our Nation is founded
on the principle that observance of the law is the eternal
safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surestroad
to tyranny. The law which we dey includes the final rulings
of the courts, as well as the enactments of our legislative
bodies. Even among law abiding men few laws are universally
loved, but they are uniformly respected and not resisted.
Americans are free to disagree with the law but not
to disobey it. For a government of laws and not of men, no
man, however prominent and power, and no mob, however unruly
or boisterous, is entitled to defy a court of law. If this
country should ever reach the point where any men or group of
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