As historian Joseph Crespino relates, Reagan began his 1980 presidential campaign at an annual fair in Neshoba County, Mississippi, where in 1964, three civil rights workers—James Chaney, Mickey Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman—had disappeared. After a search that lasted all summer and attracted national attention, an anonymous tip led investigators to an earthen dam where the bodies of the three young men were buried. They had each been shot by white supremacist members of the KKK and local law enforcement officers who were outraged by the presence of “outside agitators” during Freedom Summer, a
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This was not the start of Reagan’s presidential campaign but it was a stop on presidential campaign
