Williams served from 1968 to 1972.
Link to the catalog1968: John Bell Williams becomes Mississippi’s fifty-fifth governor
Governor John Bell Williams
1968: Thad Cochran serves as Mississippi executive director of Richard Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign
1968: Judge O.H. Barnett rules that Choctaws are subject to their tribal laws, reversing 1830s ruling
1968: State Senator Jean Muirhead proposes amendment that would strike word “male” from state laws governing jury selection in courts
January 2, 1968: Robert Clark joins legislature as first African American Mississippian elected in twentieth century
Robert G. Clark
April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated in Memphis
March in memory of King on April 8, 1968 in Hattiesburg
Image: Approximately 1,500 people marched in Hattiesburg four days after King’s death.
Link to the catalogApril 11, 1968: President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1968
May 1968: Mississippians join Poor People’s Campaign march
May 29, 1968: Beth Israel Synagogue in Meridian bombed
June 5, 1968: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy assassinated in Los Angeles
June 29, 1968: FBI foils Meridian bombing plot
Klan members had planned to bomb the home of a local Jewish businessman.