Conversation Details
When news broke of the disappearance of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, President Johnson called Sen. James O. “Jim” Eastland [D–Mississippi], the powerful chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. As an arch-segregationist, Eastland dismissed the disappearance as a “publicity stunt” and assured Johnson there was “nobody in that area to harm them.”
Date:
June 23, 1964
Topic:
Freedom Summer
Location
Oval Office
Conversation
WH6406-14-3836
Conversation Participants
Presidential Daily Diary Excerpt
![Presidential Daily Diary, 6/23/1964](https://d29j0x7vue4ie8.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/2021-04/1964_0623_03836_eastland_DD.jpg)