CBS Reports - "The Priest and the Politician"
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[0:01] [Laughter]
[0:11] buus Louisiana one year
[0:13] ago the church the graveyard the street
[0:17] and the school have been photographed so
[0:20] often they began to resemble a stage set
[0:22] for the third Act of a classic
[0:24] tragedy for 15 days until the last
[0:27] student dropped out this new
[0:30] desegregated corial school was in a
[0:32] state of virtual
[0:33] Siege television flashed the scene to
[0:35] the nation last
[0:37] fall the central characters in the drama
[0:39] could almost be the leading players in
[0:40] an allegory on the ancient contest
[0:42] between good and evil the pastor a
[0:45] Franciscan priest father Chris Schneider
[0:48] parents want to send their children and
[0:50] simply were afraid of Economic reprisals
[0:54] and uh damage to property and also uh
[0:59] threats of physic
[1:00] violence a year ago newspapers
[1:02] throughout America front paged a four
[1:04] column picture of the protesters
[1:06] prominent in the picture was the rural
[1:08] political boss credited with making sure
[1:10] the school had no students Leander Henry
[1:14] Perez I'm not bragging sir but I said we
[1:18] are not surrendering our schools to
[1:21] anybody and that means
[1:23] anyone I say the Archbishop and I've
[1:26] said it before I think he's earned the
[1:28] punishment of hell for selling out on
[1:31] his
[1:32] people father Schneider's last student
[1:34] dropped out of this school almost
[1:36] exactly one year ago today and for 349
[1:40] days these open doors of an empty
[1:42] Schoolhouse symbolized The Duel between
[1:45] the spiritual power of religion and the
[1:48] politics of race then 3 weeks ago one of
[1:51] the sisters at the school received a
[1:53] phone call when I answered the phone it
[1:56] was a woman's voice she aske