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  • Choral concert will explore events of 50 years ago, issues still relevant today

    Apr 25, 2016 12:45 pm by Jodi HeckelResearch
    image of choir in rehearsal. Photo provided by the School of Music.

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    • image of choir in rehearsal. Photo provided by the School of Music.

    The musical drama explores two historic events that occurred on the same day – the discovery of the bodies of three slain civil rights workers in Mississippi and the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which drew the U.S. into the Vietnam War.