Walter Nagel

And I was, you know, just so excited whenever I saw someone from Mississippi.

There was both great anticipation

and also hesitancy and some fear.

No one knew exactly what the numbers would be like.

It was like, we've done all the planning, now we hold our breath and see how it all comes to fruition.

But there was the famous moment when Barrett came dashing through this big room that would be using at the Stadler.

And he said, where's John Lewis?

Get John Lewis.

The fact is that John Lewis wrote a speech which was not within the guidelines of what the leadership had agreed to.

Cortland Cox had put John Lewis's speech out on the table.

And all the reporters immediately got copies of it.

And it hit the fan.

There was a section in John's speech

Something like, if violence doesn't stop, that we will have no choice but to march through the South the way General Sherman did.

August 28, 1963.

We woke up very early.

We had breakfast at the hotel.

And afterwards, we walked over

walked on the mall over to the site of the march, where there was to be a pre-march musical presentation.

We called Bob Dylan Bobby.