APPRECIATE SUPPORT

Sept. 29, 1962

To The Cheraw Chronicle:

It was good of you to wire me at this critical time. Your constructive remarks are especially gratifying in the light of your position as a publisher and a molder of opinion.

Many thanks,

R.W. Kennedy

Attorney General

PRESIDENTIAL THANKS

Oct. 8, 1962

To The Cheraw Chronicle

I know the President will be delighted to see the issue of The Cheraw Chrobicle and to know of our support.

Thank you,

Sincerely yours,

Pierre Salinger,

Press Secretary to the President

SOUND SERVICE

Cambridge, Mass.

Oct. 9, 1962

To The Cheraw Chronicle:

I have read the latest issue of The Cheraw Chronicle with the editorials on Mississippi and how the situation there relates to that of South Carolina. It is magnificent stuff. I grabbed off some of it to use on my news program which last week was chiefly on Mississippi.

Some of the newspaper comment in South Carolina that I have seen is incredible, as you have indicated. And with less excuse than that in Mississippi, for the audience in your state is certainly not benighted, as the mob fodder at Oxford and Jackson apparently was.

The anachronistic nonsense of some of the daily press must be largely responsible for the illusion that persists.

It was sound service for you to knock it on the head. The kind of criminal appeal to fantasy that some editors have made will surely be underminded by the harsh doses of reality that will penetrate South Carolina in the weeks or months that lie ahead, if the Mississippi situation has not registered with them.

The Mississippi business felt like our contact with apartheid in South Africa this summer. But we had an exciting summer and got in some time in East and West Africa that was very interesting.

Three cheers for the Cheraw Chronicle.

Sincerely yours,

Louis M. Lyons,

Curator

Nieman Foundation

GRAPES OF WRATH

Oct. 6, 1962

To The Cheraw Chronicle:

U was delighted to have this week’s issue of the Cheraw Chronicle and very much inter4ested in your excellent article and your excellent article and your very solid editorials. They are not only sound in their point of view but they indicate a great deal of thinking and scholarly research and I congratulate you on them.

I am afraid one of the real tragedies in Mississippi was the absence of this kind of journalistic voice. It is extraordinary that we must go through this same ordeal in state after state and that individuals who are sowing the seeds of racial hatred and watching them sprout into violence and bloodshed in other states cannot see that the same crop will be harvested in their own midst in due time.

You rightly make a distinction between those who stick to constitutional arguments and those who actually advocate violence. And yet, if it is driven into the heads of the people month after month and year after year that the legal rights lie with the segregationist, simple people cannot be blamed for failing to distinguish between rhetoric and action. It is all very sad, and I hope and pray that we don not have to see this tragedy repeated in your own state or in other states. If we escape, it will be due to the moderation and the courage of brave newspapers like your own.

Sincerely ours,

J. R. Wiggins, Editor

The Washington Post