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Tape Shows JFK Fumed Over Civil Rights Pressures ''There Is Nothing We Can Do''
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| Last Edited | Classical Liberal Jan 17, 2005 02:22pm |
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| News Date | Monday, January 17, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | BOSTON (Jan. 17) - On the afternoon of May 4, 1963, President Kennedy wasn't in a mood to mince words.
As he met in the White House with members of a liberal political group, he fumed when one of them mentioned the Associated Press photo splashed above the fold of that day's New York Times. The now-iconic photograph showed a police dog attacking a black teenager in Birmingham, Ala.
Birmingham had been aboil with civil rights demonstrations for weeks. Hundreds of black children had marched to protest segregation, and Police Commissioner Bull Connor ordered officers to disperse them with fire hoses and dogs.
"There's no federal law we could pass to do anything about that picture in today's Times. Well, there isn't," Kennedy snapped. "I mean, what law can you pass to do anything about police power in the community of Birmingham? There is nothing we can do."
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