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Watch the complete June 25, 1964 broadcast of a special CBS News report, anchored by Walter Cronkite, about the search for three civil rights workers who went missing while trying to register black voters in Mississippi during the "Freedom Summer" project

Watch the complete June 25, 1964 broadcast of a special CBS News report, anchored by Walter Cronkite, about the desperate search for three civil rights workers who went missing while trying to register black voters in Mississippi during the "Freedom Summer" project. The hour-long report features interviews with local officials and businessmen defending segregation in the state; civil rights workers on the violence unleashed upon activists; police on responding to protests; and local citizens about life under Jim Crow.

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The executive vice president of FreedomWorks explains to CBS News Congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes why Mississippi Senate candidate Chris McDaniel is not yet giving up his hopes of becoming the Republican Senate nominee

Adam Brandon, the executive vice president of FreedomWorks, explains to CBS News Congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes why Mississippi Senate candidate Chris McDaniel, who just lost a runoff election to Sen. Thad Cochran in the Republican primary, is not yet giving up his hopes of becoming the Republican Senate nominee.

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