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well one governor during the civil rights days. It's no telling how many statutes that the legislature passed that we set aside as being unconstitutional. And we had lawyers or alleged lawyers from all over the United States that would come down here when we were having -- Charlie Evers, I had to try him many times. And he's my friend now. But they had come from every part of the United States down here to take part in the big play in Mississippi. Then they'd go back and run for office like they had done a big deal down here. They'd come down here and mess up the case entirely, and we couldn't stop them, the Fifth Circuit wouldn't let us stop them.
They were welcome. And we had to step aside, but they'd mess up the case and go back to Oregon or somewhere and run for office. That they had been cleaning up things in Mississippi, yet, we were in better shape than they were in their own state. That's what we were in. They'd come down here and mess up things and go back and run. And I got that from some of the newspaper articles back then. So we have had it. We feel like
JAMIE L. WETZEL, CSR - CIRCUIT COURT REPORTER