The controversial day that Robert Kennedy came to the University of Mississippi

The Other Side: Mississippi Today’s Political Podcast

Retired U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Edward Ellington talks with Mississippi Today’s Bobby Harrison and Geoff Pender about former U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy’s speech at the University of Mississippi less than four years after the riots that occurred after the integration of the school. Ellington, who at the time headed the Ole Miss Speaker’s Bureau as a law school student, recalls the controversy leading up to the speech. Here is a link to audio of Kennedy's speech: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/rfkspeech/1/