From the Archives: "The Search in Mississippi"

Watch the complete June 25, 1964 broadcast of a special CBS News report, anchored by Walter Cronkite, about the desperate search for three civil rights workers who went missing while trying to register black voters in Mississippi during the “Freedom Summer” project. The hour-long report features interviews with local officials and businessmen defending segregation in the state; civil rights workers on the violence unleashed upon activists; police on responding to protests; and local citizens about life under Jim Crow.

50 Comments

  1. Jizzle _player5 on December 31, 2020 at 11:14 pm

    I’m from ruleville mississippi. Still get treated like slaves there

  2. Joe Cobb on December 31, 2020 at 11:14 pm

    This video shows the modern day Jewish practice of human Sacrifice. Jackson Bullock writes about this historical Jewish practice in the book he edited titled "The Secret Driving Force Of Globalization".
    Jews say the equivalent of "Let them say whatever they want, and we’ll interpret it the way we want".
    These Jewish boys were a premeditated human sacrifice. They didn’t volunteer to be murdered. A Jewish lawyer told me about Jews: "We don’t like Black people. We never have. The only reason we supported the Civil Rights Movement is because we knew we would benefit from it more than Black people would".

  3. Stephen Wright on December 31, 2020 at 11:15 pm

    Ask a Millennial or a Gen-Z if they’ve ever heard of the song "Strange Fruit." I’ll bet anything up to a dollar they haven’t.

  4. gregory sanders on December 31, 2020 at 11:17 pm

    Now I See Very Clear Why Jesus The Christ Was So Hated And Treated Like He Was Because Of His Skin Color In The Flesh.

  5. Stephen Wright on December 31, 2020 at 11:18 pm

    Anyone notice that the governor’s right ear sticks out like a third thumb?

  6. Dj Phantom on December 31, 2020 at 11:18 pm

    Thanks for sharing this interesting and informative documentary/newscast. It is nice to see the NEWS being reported, not just news items that are biased, scaremongering, untruthful etc etc etc. ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ

  7. Camille Harris on December 31, 2020 at 11:19 pm

    Amazing this was within most people’s lifetime.
    Remember when the mediร  wasn’t controlled by corporate interests and they just reported the news

  8. Gregg Price on December 31, 2020 at 11:20 pm

    @43:09 he said they will not tolerate no one taking the law in they’re own hand…ummmm excuse me the law was they’re own hand!

  9. itsadxri on December 31, 2020 at 11:20 pm

    I am doing an essay on this for school. I can’t find much evidence if anyone knows websites, videos, podcasts, etc that have evidence on these following topics, please let me know. I need evidence on Conner Price and how she turned against her husband Cecil, How the FBI took over the state’s job of policing and, People’s outrage toward racism afterward.

  10. floyd fletcher on December 31, 2020 at 11:21 pm

    Those 3 punks deserved what they got.

  11. marquis international on December 31, 2020 at 11:22 pm

    One of the most disrespectful things you can say to a black American is that America is great. America has always been a violent racist country. We have the tools to be great, but we choose this.

  12. The Following on December 31, 2020 at 11:28 pm

    My husband and I were married in1972. He is black and his family came from rural Georgia. Im white from Massachusettes. When we married it was very unusual even then and was not accepted.We never traveled south together. People in the north could be quite prejudiced as it was. Black people would say atleast a southern person was honest about it,but northerners act polite to your face not liking it behind your back. That was very true. Things have changed and now is very different.

  13. Rico P on December 31, 2020 at 11:28 pm

    Is this RECENT? WOW

  14. Miyah Chuge on December 31, 2020 at 11:29 pm

    Happy BLACK HISTORY month I have my kids watch a black I history movie every night in February because they have no clue what Black History is… The schools rarely teaches it… My kids came home with projects and didnโ€™t know who Mae Jamison is and who Malcolm X was…. It passed me off

  15. Dan Strayer on December 31, 2020 at 11:30 pm

    23:15 โ€œRacial fiction-FRICTION!โ€ Some Freudian slippage, methinks.

  16. Ramiro Garcia on December 31, 2020 at 11:32 pm

    These well-spoken, well dressed, well-intentioned, well educated, well prepared and courageous people you see here are those that now you derogatorily call boomers without knowing their history and past.

  17. Bruce Houston on December 31, 2020 at 11:38 pm

    Shame on America. And shame on America today!

  18. Larry Burks on December 31, 2020 at 11:38 pm

    Is it me, or is it eerie that the camera is so focused on Goodman?

  19. Ramond Medina on December 31, 2020 at 11:40 pm

    This stuff is still going on but in the low they been sining in Mississippi..still today ..the CREATOR. Gave the world to the wicked.but time is getting short .for them ..alpraise be to the REAL GOD OF ISTEAL AND HIS. REAL NAME IS YAHAWAH.FATHER. GOD OF THE 12 TRIBES OF ISREAL.LIGHT.SHALAM

  20. Mountainryder on December 31, 2020 at 11:42 pm

    Do miss actual "news reporting". Those times were/are an embarrassment to civilized peoples. Skin color is meaningless itโ€™s the person within that defines respect or lack thereof.

  21. Gerald Ritchey on December 31, 2020 at 11:43 pm

    I think the white Mississippians did not do a good job of articulating their position. Of course, we have the advantage of hindsight now, and can see what the civil rights movement was all about, and the sad results. It WAS closely affiliated with the Communist Party; many of the core movement WERE beatnik types, and were the vanguard of the hippie movement that was to emerge three or four years later.

  22. Bobby Baucom on December 31, 2020 at 11:44 pm

    To listen to Mississippi Gov. Paul Johnson and Senator James Eastland talk like everything was good for the blacks there in Mississippi in the 1960s is incredible. On another note, it’s almost emotional to hear Walter Cronkite speak in such a measured and intelligent manner. How I miss him!

  23. Orenthal Galloway on December 31, 2020 at 11:44 pm

    Not too much has changed in Mississippi. They are still electing jim crow politicians.

  24. DetroitLives313 on December 31, 2020 at 11:45 pm

    We were in Mississippi during this time visiting my grandparents. We had driven there from Ohio where we lived.

  25. Moses Walker on December 31, 2020 at 11:46 pm

    this is the incident that promoted the passage of the civil rights legislation this is where white folks saying enough is enough

  26. John Augsburger on December 31, 2020 at 11:47 pm

    Thanks

  27. Franciscus Jackson on December 31, 2020 at 11:47 pm

    Thats OLE MISS now

  28. Kevin Gibson on December 31, 2020 at 11:50 pm

    Sad

  29. Lovey Luvv on December 31, 2020 at 11:50 pm

    Trump’s kind of Amerikkka…looks like she’s tryin to get back to how things use to be (always has been but gettin more blatant now since he’s in office).

  30. Timothy Morgan on December 31, 2020 at 11:52 pm

    Blatantly lying on tv with a straight face
    The Luxury of Mississippi

  31. bowtie3 on December 31, 2020 at 11:52 pm

    There was a movie made about the murders. Mississippi Burning. My relative was on a train back then on their way to California to go to Vietnam. The wife’s sheriff was on that train. When she got up to leave, she spit on a African American soldier. The movie has it wrong about the wife. She was just as bad as her husband.

  32. gregory sanders on December 31, 2020 at 11:53 pm

    The True And Eternal God Is On The Side Of Those That Does Right And Those That Stands Up For What’s Right. Satan The Devil ๐Ÿ˜ˆ Is On The Side Of Those That Does Wrong And Those That Sits Down On What’s Right. The Holy Scriptures Said All Liars Will Have There Part In The Lake Of Fire ๐Ÿ”ฅ That Burns With Fire And Brimstone’s ๐Ÿ”ฅ Read Revelation 21:8 This Goes For All People’s Of All Races And Nationalities.

  33. Billy Crenshaw on December 31, 2020 at 11:54 pm

    When u read revaluations this makes me understand why the most high is going to do what he is going do do to esssau

  34. Ian Hay on December 31, 2020 at 11:56 pm

    The Mississippi politicians being interviewed in this footage were all Democrats

  35. Miss Earth Angel on December 31, 2020 at 11:59 pm

    They should have white history month for the good white people who also marched and sacrificed their lifes to help blacks.

  36. blacknosugarnocream on December 31, 2020 at 11:59 pm

    I hope those pigs pretending to be business leaders died in excruciating mental or physical pain. Sadly, there are still people today who bring up communism in conjunction with those who advocate for civil rights or social justice. Today’s bigots are prone to derisively using the acronym "SJW" ( social justice warrior) when referring to people who refuse to be complicit in a society of disparate treatment of its citizens.

  37. Rob Dehlinger on December 31, 2020 at 11:59 pm

    This was highlighted, rather dramatically, in the movie "Mississippi Burning"

  38. Kevin Keegan on January 1, 2021 at 12:01 am

    Fantastic video ๐Ÿ”ฅ

  39. Ken MacLeod on January 1, 2021 at 12:01 am

    The Mississippi Summer Project is a fascinating story that I only learned in detail very recently, after I began to wonder if white people ever helped out as much in the earlier days of the civil rights movement as they appear to be doing for Black Lives Matter. I’ve read and seen quite a bit on the summer of 1964 in Mississippi. Two things stand out for me, one good and one bad: First, the undeniable bonds of respect, friendship and even admiration that were formed between the naive and mostly white Northern volunteers and the black families that hosted them in these dangerous times for both parties clearly show that the common ground needed to bridge the divide is there. Second is how little concern the federal government seemed to show for democracy as it was taking care of the politics of the situation in Mississippi.

  40. Grand poobah on January 1, 2021 at 12:02 am

    So sad what blacks have to go through at the hands of whites.

  41. Alex Domanovic on January 1, 2021 at 12:05 am

    this is the garbage they taught the boomers which is the filth in office now

  42. bowtie3 on January 1, 2021 at 12:06 am

    That was some brave Americans then.

  43. Jerome Ussery on January 1, 2021 at 12:06 am

    THIS GEN X & MILLENNIAL GROUP TODAY (21st CENTURY) HAVE NO IDEA (AND DO NOT CARE) TO KNOW ABOUT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT OF THE 50’s AND THE 60’s………SO SAD, SO BAD

  44. Keona girl on January 1, 2021 at 12:08 am

    There were attempts to stop them! You CAN’T call yourself a man and lie like Satan!

  45. Kim Brighon Sr on January 1, 2021 at 12:11 am

    No wonder the civil war happened because the thinking of these racist southern white folks are so elitist and cruel to there fellow human being is just sick.

  46. gregory sanders on January 1, 2021 at 12:12 am

    Those That Does Evil Is Of There Father Satan The Devil ๐Ÿ˜ˆ And Those That Does Right Is Of There Father The True And Eternal God.

  47. Lolly Gaggerino on January 1, 2021 at 12:13 am

    And I thought we’d made progress, until Trump. He ignited the jerks again

  48. gregory sanders on January 1, 2021 at 12:13 am

    Special Thank You To All Of The Caucasian People’s And Many Other Nationalities For Putting Your Life On The Line Then And Now For Helping, Defending And Protecting The People’s Of Color.

  49. Ila E. Williams on January 1, 2021 at 12:14 am

    "Voter suppression" is more subtle and more sophisticated than merely requiring a "photo I.D."…

  50. Ila E. Williams on January 1, 2021 at 12:14 am

    "I’ll begin, from the first beginning"…Fannie Lou Hamer๐Ÿ’ฃ๐Ÿ’ฃ๐Ÿ’ฃ๐Ÿ’ฃ๐Ÿ’ฃ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ’ฃ๐Ÿ’ฃ๐Ÿ’ฃ๐Ÿ’ฃ๐Ÿ’ฃ๐Ÿ’ฃ๐Ÿ’ฃ๐Ÿ’ฃ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ’ฃ

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