Chicago comedian Dick Gregory, wearing denim jacket and western attire, reads a Memphis newspaper as he waits in the administrator's office, June 7, 1966 at William F. Bowld Hospital in Memphis for word of James Meredith's condition. Gregory arrived in Memphis from Chicago with the announced purpose of taking up Meredith's Memphis-to-Jackson, Miss., march at the point, where Meredith was shot on Monday afternoon. (Photo by Charles Kelly/AP Photo)
