Limited tickets available for memorial of late Mississippi gov, wife

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – A restricted variety of tickets might be out there to the general public for a celebration honoring the lives of Governor William Winter and First Girl Elise Winter on Tuesday, Could 3, 2022.

The occasion will happen within the Neilsen Auditorium on the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson at 1:00 p.m.

Audio system will embrace former President Invoice Clinton, former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour; and former Mississippi Supreme Court docket Justice Reuben Anderson.

The ceremony might be broadcast stay on giant video screens and in addition streamed stay on the Mississippi Division of Archives and Historical past (MDAH) Fb.

Winter served as governor of Mississippi from 1980 to 1984. He had beforehand been elected to the state legislature, and to the workplaces of the state tax collector, state treasurer, and lieutenant governor. His time period as governor was nationally acclaimed for the groundbreaking passage of training reform laws. He was later appointed to President Invoice Clinton’s Nationwide Advisory Board on Race. Elise Winter shared his dedication to public training and racial fairness.

Public parking is on the market for the occasion within the storage for visitors with tickets. Tickets might be out there on a first-come, first-served foundation at mdah.ms.gov/winter-celebration starting Saturday, April 23, at 8:00 a.m.