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PROCLAMATION 3497-SEPT. 30, 1962

[76 STAT.

Proclamation 3497 September 30, 1962

OBSTRUCTIONS OF JUSTICE IN THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS the Governor of the State of Mississippi and certain law enforcement officers and other officials of that State, and other persons, individually and in unlawful assemblies, combinations and conspiracies, have been and are willfully opposing and obstructing the enforcement of orders entered by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; and WHEREAS such unlawful assemblies, combinations and conspiracies oppose and obstruct the execution of the laws of the United States, impede the course of justice under those laws and make it impracticable to enforce those laws in the State of Mississippi by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings; and WHEREAS I have expressly called the attention of the Governor of Mississippi to the perilous situation that exists and to his duties in the premises, and have requested but have not received from him adequate assurances that the orders of the courts of the United States will be obeyed and that law and order will be maintained: NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN F. KENNEDY, President of the United States, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, including Chapter 15 of Title 10 of the United States Code, particularly sections 332, 333 and 334 thereof, do command all persons engaged in such obstructions of justice to cease and desist therefrom and to disperse and retire peaceably forthwith. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set nry hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the- City of Washington this 30th day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-seventh. JOHN F. KENNEDY

By the President: GEORGE W. BALL,

Acting Secretary of State. Proclamation 3498 October 3. 1962

COLUMBUS DAY, 1962 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS four hundred and seventy years ago Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain into an unkown sea on a voyage to increase the opportunities for commerce and on October 12, 1492, sighted the land of a new world; and WHEREAS his westward course was followed by millions of others from the Old World who came with the same enterprising spirit to build this Nation and other nations in this hemisphere, and to create an indestructible bond between the two hemispheres which continues

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