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Abstract
Agence French-Presse reporter Paul Guihard is the only journalist known to have been killed during the civil rights era. He was shot in the back from about one foot away on September 30, 1962, on the campus of the University of Mississippi while covering the integration of the university, which resulted in riots. His assailant was never identified, and his story was lost in the greater development of the day, the enrollment of James Meredith as the first black student at the university. This article tells his story from his early childhood in France and England through his death. It is based on primary research material, including newly released FBI and U.S. Marshals Service documents at the National Archives, archival material at the University of Mississippi, and interviews with Guihard's brother, Alain.
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Kathleen Woodruff Wickham
KATHLEEN WOODRUFF WICKHAM is an associate professor at the School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi. An earlier version of this article was presented at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in 2009.