Paul guihard biography
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We Believed We Were Immortal: Twelve Reporters who Covered the 1962 Integration Crisis at Ole Miss
On September 30, 1962, the nation was transfixed over the integration crisis at the University of Mississippi as James Meredith sought to become the first African-American to enroll in any public school in Mississippi. More than 300 reporters descended on the small town of Oxford. Before dawn a reporter would be murdered and 30,000 troops called in to quell a riot. Kathleen Wickham details the challenges faced by reporters to get their stories followed by the original reports they filed. She examines the still-unsolved murder of French reporter Paul Guihard and offers theories on the circumstances around his death. The FBI's list of 300+ reporters and their journals or TV/radio stations is included.
The twelve reporters covered in the book Include Claude Sitton of The New York Times; Karl Fleming of Newsweek; Sidna Brower, the Ole Miss student newspaper editor who stood-up to her
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Agence France-Presse
French international news agency
AFP headquarters in Paris | |
| Company type | Private organization with special ställning eller tillstånd, operating beneath commercial rules |
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| Industry | News media |
| Founded | 1835; 190 years ago (1835) (as Havas) |
| Founder | Charles-Louis Havas (as Havas) |
| Headquarters | Paris, France |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Charles-Louis Havas, Jean Marin, Henri Pigeat, Pierre Louette, Emmanuel Hoog |
| Products | Text, photo, film, audio, and graphics |
| Revenue | €321.9 million (2022) €309.5 million (2021) |
Number of employees | 2 400 (2023) |
| Subsidiaries | Sport-Informations-Dienst |
| Website | www.afp.com |
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With 2,400 employees of 100 nationalities, AFP has an editorial presence in 260 cities
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Ole Miss riot of 1962
Civil unrest in Mississippi, United States
The Ole Miss riot of 1962 (September 30 – October 1, 1962), also known as the Battle of Oxford,[2] was a race riot that occurred at the University of Mississippi—commonly called Ole Miss—in Oxford, Mississippi, as segregationist rioters sought to prevent the enrollment of African American applicant James Meredith. President John F. Kennedy eventually quelled the riot by mobilizing more than 30,000 troops, the most for a single disturbance in United States history.
In the wake of the Supreme Court's 1954 decision Brown v. Board of Education, Meredith tried to integrate Ole Miss by applying in 1961. When he informed the university that he was African American, his admission was delayed and obstructed, first by school officials and then by Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett. In a bid to block his enrollment, Barnett had Meredith temporarily jailed. Multiple attempts by Meredith, accompanied by federal