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Conspiracy theories that emerged from a civil rights shooting 60 years ago resonate today

Conspiracy theories that emerged from a civil rights shooting 60 years ago resonate today

(MEMPHIS) On June 6, 1966, on a stretch of Highway 51 just south of Hernando, Mississippi, a portly, middle-aged white man named Aubrey Norvell stepped out of a gully, lifted his shotgun and fired three shots at James Meredith, a Black civil rights activist and Air Force veteran. Famous
Aram Goudsouzian, University of Memphis 11 Jun 2026

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