WATS Report June 30, 1964 pm - July 1, 1964 am  M. King
HOLLY SPRINGS, MISS.  1:00 am     Prom R. Weil, Jackson, latest rpt.
A white man, frequently seen hanging around SNCC activity in Holly
Springs, accosted Larry Rubin June 30 as he and seven others, including
Peter Cummings, were passing a gas station near the office. The man,
who was standing in the gas station, started out with an empty coke
bottle toward the group. He jumped between Rubin and the others and
"cursed, shoved and grabbed him by the throat." He is quoted by Rubin
as saying he was going to get a 12 gauge shotgun, and, "I'm gonna
shoot up your office tonight." Walter Evans, a student at Rust College,
called the police. Two cars of police and the mayor came to the restaurant Rubin and the group had left when intercepted, and searched
everyone in the restaurant.  Rubin called the FBI in Holly Springs,
told them he can identify the white man. When police were asked for
protection, they said they couldn't give any.  Incident occurred about
8:00 pm; police protection was asked at about 8:30 pm. No one in that
group was hurt.  It was reported the same white man roughed up an elderly Negro who later passed by the same gas station. Earlier report
about whites circling office with guns is untrue.
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JACKSON    Press conference. Prom R. Weil
Moses was apparently misquoted in at least one network broadcast following an afternoon press conference.  The network is supposed to have
said we were calling off the Southwest project.
What Moses actually siaid (policy) was:  that we would try to send in
some staff; and that a decision about volunteers would be made later.
There is no basis for a report that we were cancelling that project.
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Jackson: taken by Brenda Travis
A car load of whites were circling the Jackson office with guns.  Bob
Weil was tal  king with a private detective on last report.
T chula: 8:30pm
Two highway patrolman drove to the front of the house of David HoaCward
They shined their 1 ights in the horse and asked for Joe Bingham
(xn fact, Steve Bingham) a summer volunteer.  'Ikkkkkkkk They said they
w anted to give him protection*
Binghiam,they say, had set up so$e kind of office unknown to SNCC
people, but he was not in the office.
The patrolman told Mr. Raphel Hayes that the patrolman was supposed
to meet Bingham at a Sanctified Church at 8:30.  The license plates
of the patrolmen were MHPlil and MHP52.  One of their names was
Bob Liston.
When patrolmen asked Mr. Hayes about Bingham he told them that he did
n*bt# live there*
Cleveland, Miss.
Two cars have been riding around the Cleveland SNCC office ever since
the volunteers arrived from Oxford/ last week.  One of the cars is a
white '59 Pord, license number 6^695.  The second car is a two tone
green and white Plymouth with a white top, no license plate.