One place where the Kennedy Administration has not held back airplanes, the nation learned, is over the University of Alabama campus at Tuscaloosa. Prodded by a Montgomery Advertiser story exposing the operation, the Air Force admitted last week that for three days in late December low-flying RF-101 Voodoo jets took aerial reconnaissance photographs of Tuscaloosa at the request of Robert Kennedy's Justice Department.
Justice Department spokesmen had a ready explanation. Last fall three Negroes applied for admission to all-white Alabama, but so far they have been blocked by state authorities. Fearing a future integration showdown similar to the violent mob...
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