Re: [ARSCLIST] Recordings of lynchings?

["Steven C. Barr(x)" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Marie O'Connell" <azile50@xxxxxxxxx>
> When working at the University of Southern Mississippi & the Mississippi
> Department of Archives and History on their oral history interviews re: the
> Civil Rights Era in MS, I did hear mention of lynchings, but very little.
> and especially from the dates enquired about.  However, there is a radio
> broadcast done in the early 1950's with the execution by mobile electric
> chair of Willie McGhee.  It is rather explicit with verbal description of
> the crowd assembled and the mobile truck containing the generator, which
> they hold the mic up to as the power is turned on 3 times to execute the
> man.  I found it rather disturbing.  This one is found at USM and Dr. Curtis
> Austin would be a good contact person.
> 
> At MDAH they have recollections in the form of oral histories but also some
> film footage of KKK rallies and cross burnings.  I am not sure if there are
> any actual lynchings (I kind of hope there isn't).  Anyway, Elaine Owens
> would be good to get in touch with there.
> 
Keep in mind that lynching...REGARDLESS of the race of the "lynchee(s)"...
was totally against the law, and thus hardly an event that would have been
recorded for posterity...!

Steven C. Barr