<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Doug Henwood</b> <<a href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com">dhenwood@panix.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Dennis Claxton wrote:<br><br>>War Critics Pardoned, Nearly 9 Decades Later<br><br>But not this victim of the state of Mississippi!<br><br>Doug<br><br>----<br><br>New York Times - May 4, 2006<br><br>Pardon Unlikely for Civil Rights Advocate
<br>By ADAM LIPTAK<br><br>Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi acknowledges that Clyde Kennard<br>suffered a grievous wrong at the hands of state officials more than<br>45 years ago. But he says he will not grant a posthumous pardon to
<br>Mr. Kennard, a black man who was falsely imprisoned after trying to<br>desegregate a Mississippi college.<br></blockquote></div><br>Would anyone mind if I made this particular prisoner a folk hero?<br>