Jerry Mitchell
Appearances
Under Yazoo Clay
A Southern Ethos
Certainly, whatever plans they had envisioned... had to be overwhelmed by the number of bodies that they found.
Under Yazoo Clay
A Southern Ethos
I got a tip that they were going to build like an underground parking garage at University of Mississippi Medical Center. When they started to do that, they discovered there were like a thousand bodies. And so as fate would have it, they had this big press conference. Everybody else came and I, you know, I just pretended like I was there covering this like everybody else.
Under Yazoo Clay
A Southern Ethos
And I said, I hear you guys may not be able to build that parking garage because you found 1,000 bodies. And Dr. Keaton's like, I think it may be 2,000. So anyway...
Under Yazoo Clay
A Southern Ethos
All these other press people are walking around, they have no idea what we're talking about. They think we're talking about this thing. They're there for the press conference, but we have no idea, you know, all these bodies being found on the campus of the hospital. And of course they were, the bodies were a part of, you know, as was explained to me,
Under Yazoo Clay
A Southern Ethos
a part of what was called the asylum there, which was actually built before the Civil War. And so it was the middle institution, basically the main one in Mississippi.