Emmerich column
Regarding Wyatt Emmerich’s op-ed column (“How the Klan was stopped in McComb,” Jan. 27):
Emmerich is justifiably proud of how his family helped neutralize the Ku Klux Klan in McComb during the ‘60s. I wish the racially moderate men and women of Greenwood had been able to do the same thing to silence the extremist thugs in that city where I grew up.
One small editorial note: The City of New Orleans, on which Mr. Emmerich’s great-grandfather served for years as a conductor, is not a railroad line. It is instead a crack passenger train that the Illinois Central operated between Chicago and New Orleans. It continues to operate to this day as an Amtrak passenger train.
“The City of New Orleans” was the name of a song about the train in the 1970s that gained widespread popularity.
Peter Houck
Hart Turner
On the Hart Turner issue that’s been commented on recently in “My Two Cents”:
I saw this same picture of Turner on WABG’s newscast. I guess somebody needs to write them a letter, too.
On Feb. 8, you will probably need to write a letter to most of the state newspapers.
Instead of people chit-chatting about this picture, why don’t you get down on your knees and pray for his soul. Pray for his family and the families of Eddie Brooks and Everett Curry.
They are reliving all of this. Shame on you all for this needless bickering.
