tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-812534277296231586.post2726328543804943475..comments2023-06-08T06:49:49.809-05:00Comments on New Baldwyn "Bearcat" Blog: "October" - Remembering a FriendUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-812534277296231586.post-78850415898031491022008-03-23T21:54:00.000-05:002008-03-23T21:54:00.000-05:00Yep, one other comes to mind, Bobby. I had a frien...Yep, one other comes to mind, Bobby. I had a friend who was also a NG member and worked as cameraman for WHBQ AM/FM/TV in Memphis. He was, along with many others in the news media in the surrounding area, taken by the US government (at their expense) and covered the Ole Miss situation. There had to be some news from there several times a day emphasizing the show of force and it had to be sent to the national media.<br><br>Perhaps that was the only thing going at the time that could be shown for the benefit of proving we had a mighty force at the ready?Carl Houstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06135737520303997277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-812534277296231586.post-69933629577926459302008-03-23T17:54:00.000-05:002008-03-23T17:54:00.000-05:00Many of the regular army troops we met at Oxford t...Many of the regular army troops we met at Oxford thought they were being mobilized for an invasion of Cuba. It didn't take 30,000 troops to integrate Ole Miss, so I've always thought that there was a link to the troop buildup in Oxford and the Cuban missile crisis--but I've found only one published historical account that links the two events. Any other thoughts on the matter?bobby hamblinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-812534277296231586.post-84568040923446289612008-03-22T21:41:00.000-05:002008-03-22T21:41:00.000-05:00Bobby H.;The book you mentioned, An American Insur...Bobby H.;<br>The book you mentioned, An American Insurrection, sounds interesting. I just bought a copy on Ebay 10 minutes ago. Thanks for the tip. <br><br>I was really watching that from the Memphis area. We were on standby alert for that and the Berlin Wall Crisis about that same time. We had just gotten the stand-down over the Cuba Missile crisis a short time before that. What a sizzling time those years were!Carl Houstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06135737520303997277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-812534277296231586.post-49124752586114074922008-03-15T16:48:00.000-05:002008-03-15T16:48:00.000-05:00I see that Jerry Mears is listed in the In Memoria...I see that Jerry Mears is listed in the In Memoriam section. Like some of the rest of us he participated in the Battle of Oxford in 1962--except he made the history books and most of the rest of us didn't!<br><br>Here's a passage from An American Insurrection by William Doyle, published in 2001: "Colonel [Guy] Gravlee's driver, PFC Jerry Mears, had to smash the Jeep through a roadblock of lumber and concrete as the mob bombarded the convoy with hand-thrown missiles. Then the convoy passed through a flurry of Molotov cocktails, which set one of the truck tarps ablaze" (p. 243).<br><br>Memories of the Baldwyn National guardsmen about their role in the integration of Ole Miss might be an interesting thread for this blog.bobby hamblinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-812534277296231586.post-16065846644290042912008-03-15T11:03:00.000-05:002008-03-15T11:03:00.000-05:00We were certainly devastated by that. Thanks for t...We were certainly devastated by that. Thanks for the tribute, Henry. Nice article. Very well done.<br>BAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-812534277296231586.post-53025490638669259612008-03-12T15:10:00.000-05:002008-03-12T15:10:00.000-05:00Like it, Henry.Good stuff.TMGLike it, Henry.<br>Good stuff.<br>TMGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-812534277296231586.post-46568969457933647462008-03-12T08:08:00.000-05:002008-03-12T08:08:00.000-05:00The countless times that I have gone by that cross...The countless times that I have gone by that crossroads, I have always thought of her and probably will continue to do so.<br><br>Thanks, Henry.Carl Houstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06135737520303997277noreply@blogger.com