Coppock, Donald R.

The author was born on a farm two miles northeast of Cherokee, Oklahoma and was privileged to have had a career in the U.S. Border Patrol serving as its Chief from 1960 to June 30, 1973. He and the Border Patrol were regularly called upon to enforce the recently passed civil rights statutes during the 1960s. He was involved in the Civil Rights strife at Ole Miss when the first African American, James Meredith was enrolled at the University, the bombing of the Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama when four young girls were killed, the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the Poor People's...