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Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the Senate but not necessarily in the field of civil rights. I don't think his reputation good. As a matter of fact, with the 1960 Democratic Convention, the fight over his nomination for the Presidency was much around--the opposition was to the fact
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • because under debate those members who are member s of a committee will be recog­ nized, or tho se who are senior, and I had absolutely no seniority and wasn·· t on the committee. F: You weren 't senior to very many peop l e , were you? P: I wa s senio
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Where were you at the time of the assassination? H: I was in Lakeland, Florida. I had just concluded a speech at the noon meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Lakeland, and strangely enough I was talking about national unity. I had · returned to my room
  • of 1958; JFK-LBJ transition; Hays-Moyers relationship; Moyers evaluated; relationship with LBJ hurts Hays in Arkansas; SCOPE (Southern Committee on Political Ethics).
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : Graduate of MIT, Harvard Law School; active duty with the Army from 1961-63, served as a staff director of the President's Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Armed Forces; Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia; Deputy General
  • Biographical information; prosecuting White House sit-in demonstrators; Frank Reeves; Howard Reed; Ralph Roberts, clerk of the House, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; David Dellinger and the March on the Pentagon; "Murphy" confidence