Speech #880029851

After all. the Attorney General had no alternative but to do what he did in connection with the Oxford. Miss.. incident. The usual daytoday activities of the Bureau of Prisons. the Immigration and Naturali:ation Service. the U.S. attorneys offices. the U.S. marshals. et cetera. have to be carried out. As far as the Mississippi incident is concerned. the execution of Federal court orders is primarily the responsibility of the U.S. marshals service. At the beginning of the 1962 school term the fifth circuit court of appeals at New Orleans ordered the admission of the applicantMeredithto the University of Mississippi at University.