curtis wilkie: it was hysterical. gerald blessey: it reminded me, frankly, of the nazi rallies at nuremberg with the swastika flags. [music playing - "go, mississippi"] keep rolling along. go mississippi, you cannot go wrong. go mississippi, we're singing your song. gerald blessey: ross barnett, during the halftime, made this terrible demagogic racist speech inciting people, really, to riot. he was urging everybody to come to ole miss and stand in the door and stand against the united states government. ross barnett: i love mississippi. [cheers] i love her people-- [cheers] --our customs. i love and i respect our heritage. [cheers] ellen b. meacham: they wrote a new song just for the occasion. ross is standing like gibraltar, and he shall never falter. ask us what we say it's to hell with boy k. curtis wilkie: barnett has been, by this time, cited for criminal contempt by the fifth circuit with the specter of possibly going to prison. and that's when he ultimately made the deal with the kennedys that brought meredith