July 8, 2003

• A Face in the Crowd

  
  

  Six Dead in Mississippi Shooting 

  
  

  “I’m gonna buy myself a shotgun,
   one with a long shiny barrel”

  
  

  – Jimmie Rodgers,
     “Father of Country Music,”
     “T for Texas” lyrics

  
  

  Related material:

  
  

  Jimmie Rodgers Museum, Meridian, MS

  
  

  East Mississippi Insane Hospital, Meridian, MS

  
  

  Location of East Mississippi Insane Hospital

  
  
  
  
  
  

  “Peace is Hell” — TIME, issue dated July 14, 2003 “Gen. Sherman: ‘Meridian no longer exists!’  Well, he was wrong.” — Meridian Public Library

  
  

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