Belt 4F5, Telephone Conversation
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September 30, 1962
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Transcript JFK: Hello. Voice 1: Just one moment, sir. Voice 2?: There you are, sir. There's the president. JFK: Hello. Hello. Barnett: Uh, Mr. President? JFK: Yes, Governor. Barnett: I, I just talked with Colonel Birdsong... JFK: Right. Barnett: ...who is our director of the highway patrol . . . JFK: That's right. Barnett: . . . and he assures me that he has approximately one hundred and fifty men there now. JFK: Now, we got a report that they're all in their cars two or three blocks away. Barnett: I told 'em, just like you asked me, to get moving. JFK: I see. Now, can you get them so that we stop this, uh, rifle shooting? That's what we gotta stop. Barnett: Well, he says he's doing all that he can. He says there're strangers in there. JFK: I know it, well that's what we hear. Barnett: And, uh, he's calling for fifty more, and that'll, that'll put it up around two hundred. JFK: Can they get those students to go to bed? Barnett: Well, he says he's trying to, and, uh, I don't think it'll be long before he can get them all to bed. JFK: Okay. Will you stay at... Barnett: Maybe not, I can't tell... JFK: Well, let's stay right at it. We, we ought to be, uh, that's what we gotta do before... Barnett: Uh, he's... JFK: ...we can, uh, do anything. Barnett: ...he's reporting, uh, constantly to a gentleman who has control of the activities of the troops there. JFK: Yeah. Barnett: And, uh, he understands that he's doing all he can. JFK: Well, I think that it's very important, Governor, aside from, uh, this issue, we don't want a lot of people, uh, killed, just because they, particularly, uh, evidently two or three guardsmen have been shot. And, of course, so , our marshals and then that state trooper, so we don't want... [Recording ends abruptly.] |
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