(Dramatized radio announcer)The FBI announced
Tuesday night the finding of three bodies
in graves at the site of a dam near Philadelphia,
Mississippi where three Civil Rights workers
disappeared six weeks ago.
The FBI said the bodies were found in a wooded
area about six miles southwest of Philadelphia
where the three young men were last seen.
The three, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and
Michael Schwerner, were last seen on the night
of June 21st.
Patti Miller: “When I got to the community
center that morning things seemed really tense
in the office.
The air of the room was just frightening.
You could just feel the terror in everyone
there, that oh my gosh, they killed Civil
Rights workers and now we know.
Thank God Pete Seeger was in town that day
for a freedom school convention and so he
gave a concert that night.
And I don't know how we would have gotten
through that day without the singing and the
camaraderie and the strength that comes from
being together and singing together.
Pete Seeger: “Last August I was singing
in a little Baptist Church in Meridian, Mississippi.
About 150 people were in the audience and
in the middle of my program I had to announce
to them the news that had just come in, that
the bodies of the three young Civil Rights
workers had just been discovered.
I didn't see anybody or hear anybody shout
for revenge but I could see lips moving, I
could see the most intense kind of determination
on everybody's face.
And afterwards several people came up to me
and asked if they could get the words of the
new song which I had just learned myself and
had sung that night.”
(music)
Oh healing river send down your water
Send down your water upon this land
Oh healing river send down your water
and wash the blood from off the sand
This land is parching, this land is thirsting
No seed is growing on the barren ground
This land is parching, this land is thirsting
Oh healing river send your water down
