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University of mississippi police say they plan to arrest three freshmen students for desecrating a statue. the three all from georgia are suspected of placing a noose around the statue of meredith and leaving behind a confederate flag. in 1961 he was the first black student admitted to ole miss. it took a supreme court decision and federal police to make it happen. this is a very serious story. and especially such young people, 19 years old, they should know people. ben ferguson, marc lamont hil...

Persons who brought the news to james meredith. merediths enrollment in 1962 touched off massive riots that turned deadly and prompted jfk to address the nation. >> americans are free to disagree with the law, but not to disa bay it. for governments of law and not of man, however prominent or powerful and no mob however unruly or boisterous is entitled to defy a court of law. >> so this is what the statute looks like. thats meredith in white and the white suit in 2006 when the dedication happene...

Editor in chief of the campus newspaper, the daily mississippi an. hello to you. how is this received on campus, are racial problems still heavy? are. >> thanks for having me. i would say that ole miss has a race problem, but i also dont think its limited to just our university. i want to be clear about that. the universities across the southeast are just more prone to these kinds of incidents because of the past left at the universities. at ole miss with the race riot when meredith was admitted...

Was very happy for her. >> and just eight days before merediths murder, amanda met a boy, an italian student named raffaello sollecito. was she in love? did she sound like a girl who was in love? >> she sounded like a girl who was infatuated with this young man who was showing her around. they went over to assisi so yeah, there was definitely a big infatuation there. i dont think they had time to fall in love by the time they were arrested. >> amanda knox, devoted daughter, student, lover? accor...

There was no planning. >> reporter: all three were arrested and charged with murder, but the tabloid press turned their attention to one of the accused in particular. amanda. when the papers hit newsstands the next day, foxy knoxy would be all over the front page. in the weeks and months that followed their arrests, new evidence would emerge. a knife found in raffaeles apartment, both amandas and merediths dna on it. merediths bra clasp tested positive for raffaeles dna. a homeless man came forw...

>> behind merediths bedroom door was her body covered by a blanket, blood everywhere. meredith has been sexually assaulted, stabbing and slashed in the neck. a bloody handprint left on the wall, bloody footprints on the floor. as police began to process the crime scene, suspicion soon began to fall upon amanda. partly due to what police believed was a faked forced entry through the window. observers also thought amandas behavior was odd. she and rafaeli stayed in the living room while the others...

>> translator: absolutely. you either see the person or not. i cant ask a person what he or she imagines. this question would make no sense. >> thats not all that wouldnt make sense because it turns out virtually everything amanda knox told her interrogators the night of her so-called confession was a lie. amanda knox in this statement told police she was in the house the night of the murder and saw her boss, nightclub owner patrick lumumba, and meredith kercher go into merediths room, and she h...

Case against amanda knox and her boyfriend was getting under way. basing his case mainly on circumstantial evidence. the prosecutor giuliano mignini would begin to present witnesses. one who claims to have seen the couple near the home the night of the murder. two others would come forward saying they heard a scream. one of them also hearing footsteps running in different directions, but magnini now would also present scientific evidence, he said, proves amanda and raffaeles guilt. two dna sampl...

Sense. >> thats not all that wouldnt make sense because it turns out virtually everything amanda knox told her interrogators the night of her so-called confession was a lie. amanda knox in this statement told police she was in the house the night of the murder and saw her boss, nightclub owner patrick lamumba and meredith kercher go into merediths room and heard screams. amandas statement is, i am very confused. i imagined what could have happened. police did not check the facts on lamumba. they...

Amanda kept saying i have gotten ahold of everybody, i cant get ahold of meredith, shes not answering her phone, her doors locked. there was lots of concern. i said okay, you know, call the police and then she did and you know, the police came and then they had actually one of the other roommates boy friends broke down the door because the police wouldnt do it. >> reporter: behind merediths bedroom door was her body, covered by a blanket, blood everywhere. meredith had been sexually assaulted, s...