Interview with John Seigenthaler   John Seigenthaler:  Well,
looking back on it right now, it would seem a simple matter for
the Federal Government to simply march in and say, uh, to the
FBI uh, make sure these people get on the bus and make sure the
bus gets through and we'll reinforce that with Marshals or
troops or whatever. Uh, it was not quite that simple, I mean,
states rights were still asserted and uh, all sorts of legal
theories were being uh, suggested - a theory called
interposition - which seemed to put the state government between
the Constitution and uh the Federal Government. Um, but
Patterson uh, simply was not available, was holding out, didn't
want to meet with us. Uh, that was our impression. One report
was that he was in a boat off the Gulf Coast and couldn't get
back from Mobile to see us, uh, during that period, Bull Connor
uh late one night uh simply took him out of jail uh, had a
motorcade, took him back to the Tennessee line - dumped him on
the other side of the Tennessee line. The mo