| Summary: | Raw footage shot for "Campaign '66," a program produced by Jack Venable of WSFA-TV: "The closing of the last ballot box and the last voting machine on Tuesday night will signal the end of one of the strangest elections in Alabama history. It's unique in two ways. First, Governor Wallace, prohibited from seeking a second term by the state constitution, runs his wife as a stand-in. The second unusual facet about this election is the fact that the Wallaces are having to run at all. For the first time since Reconstruction days, the Republican Party poses a threat to decades of Democratic domination of the State House. Alabama is experiencing for the first time two-party politics." Among the individuals featured are Governor George Wallace; gubernatorial candidates Lurleen Wallace (Democrat), Jim Martin (Republican), and Carl Ray Robinson (Independent, in bed with a back injury); former presidential candidate Barry Goldwater (at city hall in Birmingham on October 25, 1966); and U.S. Senate candidates John Sparkman (Democrat, incumbent), John Grenier (Republican), and Julian Elgin (Third Party for America). The program originally aired on Sunday, November 6, 1966.
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