Haley Barbour's MLK memories thrown into question
In an interview with the Weekly Standard in December, Barbour described standing on the outskirts of a rally to hear MLK...
From Talking Points Memo
A leading historian is throwing into question recollections from Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour® that he watched Martin Luther King, Jr. speak in his Yazoo City hometown as a teen.
In an interview with the Weekly Standard in December, Barbour described standing on the outskirts of a rally to hear MLK.
“I remember Martin Luther King came to town, in ‘62. He spoke out at the old fairground and it was full of people, black and white,” he said. But Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Garrow told the Jackson Clarion-Ledger this week that records show no signs of any such appearance.
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