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...around the grave of American explorer Meriwether Lewis. A few moments later, his team drags a radar sled across the same neatly clipped grass and around the weathered limestone monument. Their mission: to learn the truth of Lewis' mysterious death by gunshot here on a Tennessee stretch of the Natchez Trace, the old road between Natchez, Mississippi, and Nashville, Tennessee, nearly 183 years ago. Did this pioneer, whose trek to the Pacific Northwest with William Clark has been a staple of grade-school quizzes for generations, take his own life that night at Grinder's Stand? Or was he murdered...
...source of the Baptists' consternation is a growing movement to revive riverboat casinos. They fear that the floating games will bring bawdy music, painted women and public intoxication. On the other side of this fire- and-brimstone debate are the chambers of commerce of such Mississippi River towns as Natchez and Vicksburg. They insist that legalizing games of chance on the river would create jobs and attract tourists to one of the nation's most depressed states...
...this point, the Quayle tale began to go awry. Bush was scheduled to take a 30-minute riverboat ride on the Natchez, and it was decided that Quayle would be anointed when the boat docked in New Orleans. There was only one problem: Bush insisted that his top aides accompany him to guarantee secrecy. That meant all the obligatory calls to G.O.P. leaders had to be postponed until later that afternoon, leaving no senior campaign aide available to brief the press on Quayle's virtues. When the problem was posed to Bush, he said decisively, and incorrectly, "We can take...
Church officials recall Law's early support for the civil rights movement, support that began soon after his seminary training when he joined the Mississippi Human Relations Council in 1961. Law also took a strong pro-integration stand throughout the '60's as editor of the Natchez-Jackson diocesan newspaper in Mississippi...
They point to Law's early support for the civil rights movement, support that began soon after his seminary training when he joined the Mississippi Human Relations Council in 1961. Law also took a strong pro-integration stand during the '60s as editor of the Natchez-Jackson Diocesan newspaper in Mississippi...