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Thorn once observed that the southern press in the 1960s rarely reported on crimes against [[African American]]s:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zoominfo.com/s/#!search/profile/person?personId=91443982&targetid=profile|title=Dr. J. Dale Thorn|publisher=zoominfo.com|accessdate=May 17, 2014}}</ref>"The metro press really didn't cover that type of thing." A case in point was the burning death of Frank Morris, who operated a shoe repair shop in Ferriday in Concordia Parish, an unsolved racially motivated killing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20091226/ARTICLES/912259987/0/NEWS03?p=7&tc=pg|author=Matthew Barnidge|title=LSU student media, Small-town paper calls attention to unsolved civil-rights killings|date=December 25, 2009|publisher=''Lafourche Parish Daily Comet''|accessdate=May 17, 2014}}</ref>​

Thorn once observed that the southern press in the 1960s rarely reported on crimes against [[African American]]s:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zoominfo.com/s/#!search/profile/person?personId=91443982&targetid=profile|title=Dr. J. Dale Thorn|publisher=zoominfo.com|accessdate=May 17, 2014}}</ref>"The metro press really didn't cover that type of thing." A case in point was the burning death of Frank Morris, who operated a shoe repair shop in Ferriday in Concordia Parish, an unsolved racially motivated killing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20091226/ARTICLES/912259987/0/NEWS03?p=7&tc=pg|author=Matthew Barnidge|title=LSU student media, Small-town paper calls attention to unsolved civil-rights killings|date=December 25, 2009|publisher=''Lafourche Parish Daily Comet''|accessdate=May 17, 2014}}</ref>​

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Upon leaving the Edwards administration, Thorn joined the staff of t [Louisiana Board of Regents and became associate commissioner for higher education. He worked to settle a dispute between the state and the [[United States Department of Justice]] over [[Segregation|desegregation]] of higher education in Louisiana. He then joined the administration of [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]] as vice president for academic affairs. He returned to LSU in Baton Rouge to teach journalism and public relations as professor in residence with an endowed scholarship at the Douglas Manship School of Mass Communication. He retired from LSU in 2000 and relocated to his native Brandon near [[Jackson]], the Mississippi state capital.<ref name=jdthorn/>​​

Upon leaving the Edwards administration, Thorn joined the staff of the Louisiana Board of Regents and became associate commissioner for higher education. He worked to settle a dispute between the state and the [[United States Department of Justice]] over [[Segregation|desegregation]] of higher education in Louisiana. He then joined the administration of [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]] as vice president for academic affairs. He returned to LSU in Baton Rouge to teach journalism and public relations as professor in residence with an endowed scholarship at the Douglas Manship School of Mass Communication. He retired from LSU in 2000 and relocated to his native Brandon near [[Jackson]], the Mississippi state capital.<ref name=jdthorn/>​​

==Death==

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