Henry T. Gallagher, a twenty-three-year-old second lieutenant in the United States Army’s military police, relieved United States marshals under attack during the Ole Miss Riot and then became the officer charged with keeping James Meredith alive on the University of Mississippi campus in 1962. Fifty years later, Gallagher returns to Mississippi with his new book, James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot: A Soldier’s Story, and speaks frankly about the experience at History is Lunch at the William Winter Archives Building. History is Lunch is a program sponsored by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Learn more about the book at http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1508
