d Griffin he would be killed and make himself the target of the most ignorant rabble in the country, and is they caught him, they could sure make an example of him. Griffin argued how the benefits outweighed the risks and how it could potentially help change race relations in the south. Griffi!
             n offered to give Sepia some articles or let the magazine use some chapters in his book is Levitan paid the tab. When Griffin departed, Levitan offered some warnings and insisted Griffin keep things peaceful.
             Later that night Griffin told his wife about the project. After she recovered from her astonishment, she unhesitatingly agreed that if he felt he must do this think, then he must.
             Griffin then returned to his barn office. As he listened to the frogs and crickets, watched the tall tractors which only a few hours earlier stopped plowing the earth, and smelled the cold chilled night, he began to feel the beginning loneliness and the terrible dread of what he had decided to do.
             Griffin lunched with Mrs. Jackson, Mr. Levitan, and three FBI men from the Dallas office. Griffin knew his project was outside their jurisdiction and that they could not support it in any was; yet he wanted them to be aware of the project in advance. They discussed it in considerable detail. Griffin decided not to change his name or identity. He would merely change his skin pigmentation and allow people to draw their own conclusions. If asked who he was or what he was doing, he could simply answer truthfully.
             Griffin would soon find out if people would treat him as John Howard Griffin regardless of his skin color or as some nameless Negro, even though he was the same man.
             Griffin soon arrived in New Orleans. Griffin felt the most intense excitement fill his heart as he saw the same places he once visited while he was blind. Griffin walked miles trying to locate everything by sight that he once knew only by smell and sound.
             The next morning Grif...