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November 24, 2021

SALTER: Bill Spell was at the center of Mississippi’s most sordid, bizarre political campaign

Submitted by Sid Salter “An affable but intense figure who played to win in all things…” William E. “Bill” Spell, who died Oct. 12 at age 96, was the last major figure in what most Mississippians recall as the most sordid and bizarre political campaign in the state’s history back in 1983. To say that…