"I remember Martin Luther King came to town, in '62. He spoke out at the old fairground and it was full of people, black and white," he said. But Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Garrow told the Jackson Clarion-Ledger this week that records show no signs of any such appearance.
Give Haley Barbour a break
He obviously forgot this because he was out-of-town driving a Freedom Rider Bus or defending the Scottsboro Boys! It all happened in 1962 he says.