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John DoarJohn Michael Doar was born in 1921 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After John F. Kennedy was elected president in 1960, Doar joined the civil rights division of the United States Department of Justice. He was involved in several of the events which constituted the civil rights movement. In 1962, Doar went to confront Ross Barnett, who was preventing James Meredith from entering the University of Mississippi. He also prosecuted and convicted Collie Leroy Wilkins for federal civil rights violations related to murdering Viola Liuzzo (with an all white jury in Alabama). The trial was for civil rights violations, because Doar was a federal prosecutor, and could not prosecute someone for murder, which was a state offense. In 1963, he confronted and calmed an angry mob after Medgar Evers was killed. He prosecuted the federal case for civil rights violations against the people who were accused of lynching Andrew Goodman James Chaney and Michael Schwerner in the case that later became the movie Mississippi Burning. Doar later contributed to drafting the civil rights act of 1965, which Lyndon Johnson signed to attempt to solve some of the problems that he had observed in the deep south. He left the government in the later part of the Johnson administration, returning only in 1974 as counsel for the judiciary committee of the United States House of Representatives, which was then investigating the Watergate scandal.
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