Part 2 / final: “Beneath the Mississippi moon, somebody better investigate soon” When President Kennedy delivered the first sentence of his address to the nation in the early evening of September 30, 1962, “James Meredith is now in residence on the campus of the University of Mississippi”, he was not aware that US marshals who had come under attack from protesters all afternoon on campus had started to fire teargas. Soon a riot exploded on the scene, fueled by hundreds of segregationists who had come to Ole Miss from other states to “defend” it against enrolling its first African-American student. AFP reporter Paul Guihard and photographer Sammy Schulman split up to cover the unrest. They had no idea that Guihard would never return alive. The second episode of the podcast retraces the aftermath of the riot and Paul Guihard’s murder as well as the admission to Ole Miss of James Meredith. It also looks at the investigations of Paul Guihard’s death from 1962 to 2011, when his filed was closed by the US Department of Justice. Please find the pictures to accompany this podcast on AFP Correspondent blog https://correspondent.afp.com/who-killed-paul-guihard-part-2-podcast With Kathleen Wickham, Hank Klibenhoff, Sidna Brower and Don Emmert. Sound archives from the JFK Library, AFP Files. Thanks to Gina Dodgett, Abhik Chanda and Yana Dlugy for their voices. A podcast produced by Laurent Kalfala and the AFP interactive graphics team.

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Who Killed Paul Guihard ? Part 2

Part 1: “The civil war never came to an end” On September 30, 1962, Paul Guihard, a reporter for Agence France-Presse in New York, was killed, shot in the back from a foot away, during a riot that exploded at the University of Mississippi on the eve of James Meredith becoming the first African-American to enroll at the school. The podcast, which tells the story of the still-unsolved case, pays tribute to Guihard on the 57th anniversary of his murder. “The civil war never came to an end,” the first episode of “Who killed Paul Guihard ?” podcast will be published on October 1, 2019 on AFP’s Correspondent blog. The second and final episode will be released a week after. Please find the pictures to accompany this podcast on AFP Correspondent blog https://correspondent.afp.com/who-killed-paul-guihard-part-1-podcast With Kathleen Wickham, Francois Pelou, Hank Klibenhoff, Sidna Brower, Don Emmert and Michel Nouaillas. Sound archives from the JFK Library, AFP Files. A podcast produced by Laurent Kalfala and the AFP interactive graphics team.

Who Killed Paul Guihard ? Part 1

On September 30, 1962, Paul Guihard, a reporter at the Agence France-Presse in New-York, was killed, shot in the back from a foot-away, during a riot which exploded when James Meredith was going to be enrolled as the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi. The podcast, recalling the case which was never solved, is paying a tribute to Guihard for the 57th anniversary of his death. "The civil war never came to an end", the first episode of "Who killed Paul Guihard ?" podcast will be published on September 30, 2019 on the Correspondent blog of AFP. https://correspondent.afp.com/ The second and final episode will be released a week after. With Kathleen Wickham, Francois Pelou, Hank Klibanoff, Sidna Brower, Don Emmert and Michel Nouaillas. Sound archives from the JFK Library, AFP Files. A podcast produced by Laurent Kalfala and the AFP interactive graphics team.

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