June 25, 1964 - Walter Cronkite anchors a special CBS News report about the search for three civil rights workers who went missing this week while trying to register Negro voters in Mississippi. 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.
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