Jesse Grider Oral History Project
Eleven interviews with Jesse Grider, a U.S. Marshal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, assigned to guard Black students desegregating The Orleans Parish School Board, in 1960. Grider was memorialized during this moment in Norman Rockwell's painting The Problem we all Live with one of the Marshals protecting Ruby Bridges. Grider was also assigned to guard Martin Luther King, Jr. in Alabama in 1961. Grider discusses some of the most famous trials he was assigned to during his three decades of service in the U.S. Marshals.
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Interviews
- Oral History Interview with Jesse Grider (May 5, 1994)
- Oral History Interview with Jesse Grider (May 26, 1994)
- Oral History Interview with Jesse Grider (January 26, 1995)
- Oral History Interview with Jesse Grider (April 28, 1994)
- Oral History Interview with Jesse Grider (May 12, 1994)
- Oral History Interview with Jesse Grider (February 17, 1994)
- Oral History Interview with Jesse Grider (March 3, 1994)
- Oral History Interview with Jesse Grider (April 21, 1994)
- Oral History Interview with Jesse Grider (April 14, 1994)
- Oral History Interview with Jesse Grider (February 17, 1994)
- Oral History Interview with Jesse Grider (March 24, 1994)