Dr. Philip K. Ensley, veterinarian at the Wild Animal Park in San Diego, California, came the Center in 2001 while in Mississippi visiting the Strawberry Plains Audubon Center in Holly Springs. Seeing the article "40 Years after Infamy, Ole Miss Looks to Reflect and Heal," in the New York Times last September, Ensley sent Wilson the photograph printed here with excerpts of the accompanying letter.
   Because of that news article I went through some files and found this photograph of James Meredith and his son I thought you might like to have for your files. I took this photo at a book signing a few years ago here in San Diego. He did not recognize me as the young college sophomore who met him nearly 40 years earlier. I reminded him about the circumstances of the meeting that took place at the Jackson, Mississippi residence of Constance Motley in June 1962. He sat to my left, holding a narrow walking cane looking a bit like a graduate student attending an Ivy League college. He sat up erect listening quietly to the discussion of the lawyers present nodding occasionally with approval on issues concerning strategy to gain admission to the University of Mississippi. The meeting atmosphere was very serious. I made no contribution to the conversation, as most of the legalese was above my head anyway. I had attended the meeting with William L. Higgs, the lawyer James Meredith first turned to for assistance when he sought legal advice on entering Ole Miss.
     For this photograph Mr. Meredith obliged me and held up a 1962 copy of the Mississippi Free Press that I had saved from that summer. On the front page was a photograph of James and his mother. In addition there was an article detailing the arrest of Bill Higgs in Clarksdale. I was also involved in that arrest. In February of 1963 I was subpoenaed to testify in front of a Federal Grand Jury in Oxford. I spent the evening prior to testifying on campus at the residence of James Silver. He described the events on the night of September 30th as they appeared through his front window. He was a good friend of Bill Higgs. This was the same Bill Higgs who graduated first in his class at Ole Miss, went on to Harvard Law School and was ultimately disbarred in Mississippi. This is the same Bill Higgs I have petitioned Governor Musgrove to pardon posthumously. . . . I hope things are going well for you and the Center. I always look forward to receiving the Southern Register.