On the tumultuous evening of September 30, 1962, Paul Guihard, a 30-year-old male journalist of French-British descent, found his life tragically cut short on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford. Guihard, a correspondent for the Agence France-Presse, was on assignment to cover the volatile events surrounding the enrollment of James Meredith, the first African American student at the university. The campus was a scene of chaos, with a violent riot erupting as segregationist prot
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