This project (originally created by Bethany Radcliff and Kylie Warkentin in 2021; updated and revised by Kylie Warkentin in 2025) serves as an educational example of working with and annotating sensitive audio using the “‘Criminal Syndicalism’ Case, McComb, Mississippi (Side 1)” recording from the John Beecher Sound Recordings Collection at the University of Texas’s Harry Ransom Center. In this recording, John Beecher and members of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) meet with high school students arrested on charges of criminal syndicalism and their parents after their release from jail in McComb, Mississippi, on October 19, 1964.
