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2: 30 am: Ja ckson; Jesse Harris got in, after having been held by Jackson police for six hours without charges. He was picked up while driveing Bob Beyers ~ rented car, kept waiting in the hall of the Jackson City Jail , was never questioned.

7:00 am: Hattiesburg ~ There was a minor demonstration here last night by ~IDU students who marched to the COFO office singing Freedom songs to welcome the new sUmoor·vol­unteers. No cops around, hence no trouble. Sandy also reported proof of rank anateurish wire tapping going en. Yester the phone r ang 9 ~nd Sandy picked up and heard about the last 20 seconds of his last phone converso·' -'.on. The police must have been -changing tapes, he f~e-cuf.ates, and goofed.

' 7:45 ~;;,r Ca;lton~ T~st "nig~t"a hunch ornds war~ sf.anding" itmint~ ·the ·pr~~ ..,, "'""" "' t.. I' .. I ,.... ~.~ -.r• ~ ...,..._ .... House singing Freedom songs, until the cops brok8 them up. '

8 ~ 30 am: PhiladelEhia ~ Nick Von Hoffman reports that the FBI are l-rorking very hard' in their investigation~ not wasting time; They are figuring~ that bodies cannot be dragged very far from a road, and since much of the land in the area i s thickly wooded and impossible todrive thru, this limits the area to be searched. He said the FBI are not shying auay from the possiblity of Nashoba County officials being involved and seem a>·Tare of the implications of some of the facts being dug up.

9 :45 am: l-1eridian: Learned that Rita Schwerner and Bob Zellner will go to Washington to talk to Katzenbach of the Justice Department and to try to see the President.

·' 10:05 am: ~attie?~~ ~To ·cars belonging to volunteere Joh~:catalin and Barry v~emson were shot ~n~o ~~ot -~tent. Three local witnesses said· they ·saw the shots fired f:om a red 1963 pick~up truck containing four white men; ~• They shot into the rad~a~ors of the cars~ which were parked •. This happende at one in the morming. Cops are ~nvestigating. One of the men shot at one of the witnesses a teenager. No injuries . The license x of m tthe truck was covered over. '

4 :. 10 pm: Hattiesburg ~ Pete stoner picked up in HVburg at 3:00 pm, by Constable Humphr?Y· Pete was taken to the Forrest County Jail, where he is no stranger, with­o~t be~ng charged. Then he was told the charge is Reckless Driving and Fa..i.llng to S1gnal. $100 property bond. Sheriff wouldnvt release him between 7:00 pm ~nd 7:00 a~. Suspect he may be having rough time. One of the witnesses to last nightvs shooting says hP c~" ~ne truck again and got t he licence number.~ ·2-3355.

6:45 pm! Co1uinbus : ?'s:Gc car:Loads· of ·white ·men are in !'ront ol'"'Fl'ei:dCffif House •. The..,._. cops ar: ived promptl y when ~called, and most of the men fled; ' two. me~ 'who had got~ · ten out '' of their cars wer e picked up, questioned, and released. \-lillie Blue will press char ges agains t them Tuesday mornin. Expected more troubl~, but was quiet after.

even ;; Noss Point ~ The project i s really moving. There are 15 people in the project, there was a meetlimg >dth UAACP youth, all of them committed to >-rork on project; fourty

f Freedom registrants~ forty promises to go to the Courthouse Tues. and Wed.

evening : Columbus : Police have been to the restaurants where volunteers are eating and thraatmning to close them down.

~-----------------;EMPORTANT HEARING I N BILOXI : The first stop in challenging }1i~s. 0 s anti-picketing law will be taken Tuesday; a hearing before the Fifth Circuit~~pealing Cox0 s ~ction inhaving ron~ndcd the case of the picketers arrested April 15 in H0burg back to the state courts. vJo arc challmnging the anti-picketin~ law on the basis that it is unconstitutional.

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~ LI!JZ DIGEST, Iii.dni ;;l1t - 2:00 p.m. June 30, 1964· '

Hattiesburg: The shootinJ of t J.1e lrrhi te" volupteers 1 cars yesterday He.s investi,t:;o.ted b · t he IIighvray Patrol.- Stoner 1 s trail put off one c~ay .

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l Gree11vrood: Har d comes that Jinr .Iy Travis is in the hospital in ·Cine inn a t i • One week res t has been reco~Jen~ed bv doctors .

Huleville: Decau.se of questioning by t .he FBI of Mr-s . Mary 'fucker about vol v,nteers - i ncludi ng request for the ackr c s oes of where volunteers a re livinc - the ~uestion of hor ;Juch i nfornation s hould be c i ve n to t he FBI wilL be c1.isct~ssed at t he staff n e c ting i n Je.ckson on Hec~ncsday ,

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Biloxi: Three ju c~.ges hear d t·he co.se on the .Anti-Picketing LaH. Tl1ey \rill rule :1ext 'vreek on t"!1~ consti tutianalj. ty ~of the law.

' . Oakland; L very' badly mangled body of a w}1ite ~.1an, 5'8", 1 60 lbs. 'vias found by t he High\vay a trol. Final i den""t':tfi cation 1as not- beel:l-;....detern.lineJi

· but all evidence indi cates that the body ' is not bne of the three missing worker.s, not c-my other SUl:mer volunteer.

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~ i.IOSES HOLDS FTIJ:S,S CCITli'El1E~ .CE; 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 30-.

Iiost of t h e questions cone erned entry into the South lrlest ancl the Phila­de~')hia case . Bob said t hat staff pe o~1le will ' enter the South :iest f irst 'Hith volunteers following at a l ater tiue~ I n answer to a ... questions , a bout what 111e hope to acc omplish in t l1e sur11;.1er, Bob mentioned 5 t hings : (1) to o:;_J en u p t he ~fegro comi..lU~1ity and establish bur right to v10rk there; (2} to

. I get t he sur.u11er volttnteers to c arry the story of Nississippi t o the :r.est of the nation; (3 ) ' to focus the attention o ~ t ·h e nation on t l1e state; (4) To Get ·i;he macerate \<fhites in t h e state to l::egi n to talk a bout t he whole problem i n r a tional te rms and (5 ) to organize the Negro community push for their rights .

TO COI Il UIII-.: 1 TIOITS 1iO~CK~S re STAFF :UIOGR11.P:IY FO~US :

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t is the resp onsibility of the comnunications 'vrorker to be ~ Staff r1 embers and those acting in posit i ons of 'staff' res:;onsibili ty to fill out the enc las ed bioc;rap hy forms . This is al\ order ev·en if s t a f f members say they h ave rn~eviously filled out a form {Those . e~ceLllJted be ­c ause we 22. have t he:i.r forJilS on f :i.le are : Douglas Cot ton , Carole .. !·ierr i tt,, Bernice , Davie~ anc1. Cl auc1e Si ms and Claude · i;eavex-). Basic factual infor­~ation is ii~lperati ve -fo-r pu blici t _, and sr>e-t:ri t y purp.oses . Ple~~e re turn ., t he forws ililn ec"~iat~ly . .,

i'TOTIIC- STUDY P:::COJ LCT•:

The ·.lark-Study Project will be continued and expanded t h~.s' coming year . It will be u p to t he staff to recruit 30 g ood people for t he projec t. Details c oning out in a separate nailing ~

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