Merle Temple, a native of Tupelo, Mississippi, came of age in the South in the wake of Elvis, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Vietnam War. He worked for the FBI in Washington before returning to Mississippi to earn two degrees at the University of Mississippi where he would later receive the Distinguished Alumni award.
One of the first "New Centurions," as they dubbed the first wave of college criminal justice graduates, he signed on with a new agency, the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics whi…
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