Faulkner at West Point, interviewsby William
Faulkner, edited by Joseph L. Fant and Robert Ashley (Random House).
Three Novels: Follow Me, Down, Jordan County, Love in a Dry Season,
fiction by Shelby
Foote (Dial Press).
The Protectors: The Heroic Story of the Narcotics Agents, Citizens and Officials
in Their Unending, Unsung Battles against Organized Crime in America and Abroad,
by "J. Dennis Gregory" [John
Alfred Williams] (Farrar, Straus).
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, a play by Tennessee
Williams (New Directions).
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, a play by Tennessee
Williams (New Directions).
The Shoe Bird, a juvenile book by Eudora
Welty (Harcourt).
Premiere of the film Night of the Iguana, based on the play by Tennessee Williams.
August: During the height of "Freedom Summer," a massive voter registration
and education effort for blacks, three civil rights workers Andrew Goodman,
James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner disappear near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
After a massive investigation by the FBI and other federal agencies, their bodies
are found forty days after their disappearance in an earthen dam in Neshoba
County. A Neshoba County deputy sheriff and six other defendant are later found
guilty in federal court for violating the civil rights of Goodman, Chaney, and
Schwerner.