by Wynton Hall
In a stunning historical error, Los Angeles reporters Kathleen Hennessey, Richard Simon, Alexei Koseff reported that "Democrats led the passage of civil rights legislation that marchers pushed for in 1963."
In fact, Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV), a former member of the Ku Klux
Klan, filibustered the bill in an attempt to kill the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Republican Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) saved the landmark civil
rights law from defeat by galvanizing Senate Republicans for a cloture vote to
stop the Democrat-led filibuster
On June 9, 1964, the night before the historic cloture vote, the 68-year-old
Republican stayed up late into the night typing a speech on twelve sheets of Senate
stationery. The next day, Senator Everett Dirksen delivered his oration on the
floor of the U.S. Senate just minutes before the final vote. The final tally:....ToRead More.... The Los Angeles Times has yet to correct its error.
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