do you happen to know someone named diane nash?" diane nash was a young fisk student, a junior that year. i said, "i know her casually. david knows"-- "your city," i think he said. "she's from your city." that's right. and he said, "well, we'll call her up and tell her "that she can't let-- she's in the command chair. "tell her she may not bring these children down there, "because somebody's going to get killed. this group almost got killed." so i called her, and i said, "do you remember me?" and she did, and she called me mr. seigenthaler. and i said, "look, i'm here in new orleans "because that first wave of freedom riders, "mauled and mangled, bones broken, heads crushed. "you must not let these students come down here. they're going to get killed." and she said, "mr. seigenthaler, "they all signed their wills last night. "they know some will get killed. but we cannot let violence overcome nonviolence." and so i was stuck with trying to get a second wave of freedom riders from birmingham to montgomery to jackson to new orleans. w