Richard Boeth

RICHARD BOETH, a former reporter for TIME and TV critic and a book reviewer for NEWSWEEK, is now a free-lance writer liviny in New London, New Hampshire.

Born in England thirty-two years ago of a British mother and American father, Mr. Boeth grew up in New York, studied at Andover Academy and Princeton, and entered journalism, first as a reporter for TIME, taler as a free-lance writer and as TV critic and a book reviewer for NEWSWEER.In the spring of 1964 he went to Mississippi to write, and experienced the sensations recounted here.