| Summary: | The following segments are included:
0:00:01: Governor Albert Brewer speaking about the need for law and order during a press conference on June 5 1968, after Robert F. Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles. (Kennedy was pronounced dead in the early morning hours of June 6.)
0:00:24: George Wallace speaking at a press conference at the Jefferson Davis Hotel in Montgomery, Alabama, in June 1968, after Robert F. Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles: ". . . the shooting of Senator Kennedy, which is another example of the personification of the breakdown of law and order in this country, and which we have allowed people to take the law into their own hands uh to conduct themselves in the manner that they see fit." Cecil Jackson and Seymore Trammell are standing with him. (Kennedy was pronounced dead in the early morning hours of June 6, more than 24 hours after he was shot; it is unclear whether this press conference took place before or after that.)
0:02:58: Robert F. Kennedy speaking to students and faculty at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa on March 21, 1968, during the student symposium, "Emphasis '68." John Glenn is seated on the stage behind him.
0:04:08: Movers carrying the belongings of Governor Albert Brewer and his family into the Governor's Mansion on South Perry Street in Montgomery on June 5, 1968.
0:05:26: Admiral Thomas Moorer, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, speaking about the search for the Scorpion, a missing atomic submarine, during a press conference at Auburn University on June 3, 1968. (Later that day, Moorer gave the commencement address at the spring graduation ceremony at Auburn, during which he was awarded an honorary doctorate.)
0:06:57: George Wallace speaking at a press conference in June 1968. He discusses the significance of his American Independent party and his commitment to law and order as a remedy to nationwide unrest and demonstrations: ". . . the people in high places in this country have advocated every bit of the anarchy and law violence that happened, and violence and murder that happened in the streets from Selma to Albany to Jackson to Montgomery to Birmingham to Charlotte, and now it is engulfed the entire country because they said . . . it was a great holy Crusade, when this spawning, this anarchy in our country happened to be in in the Deep South that is, chanting and marching in the streets and taking the law into their own hands, and now those who have encouraged it in high places have created them a Frankenstein and I say that we ought to enforce the law and we ought to stop it, and if I become the president of the United States I am going to stop it." Seymore Trammel is standing behind Wallace on the right.
0:09:14: Albert Brewer giving his first press conference as governor on June 5, 1968. He discusses upcoming appointments to his cabinet; his continued support for George Wallace as a presidential candidate; and a recent federal court order mandating the use of "attendance zones" rather than school choice to achieve desegregation in Mobile County schools.
0:13:43: Alvin Holmes making a statement about the death of Robert F. Kennedy in June 1968: "But I say to the citizens all over this country, especially the young people, let's not lose faith in America and let's not turn to violence, for I truly believe that somehow and someday this problem will be solved . . ."
0:14:20: Governor Albert Brewer speaking during a press conference in June 1968, after Robert F. Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles: "I'm terribly shocked by the tragic event of the shooting last night of Senator Kennedy I'm also frightened and deeply concerned at what this unbelievable thing portends: a further breakdown in the moral fiber of our country. I know that all Alabamians join me in praying for the complete recovery of Senator Kennedy. The people of this nation are concerned about the breakdown in law and order and the disrespect for law and order. We've always in this country expressed our grievances at the ballot box. Now it seems it has become the fashionable thing for those who are grieved, real or imagined, to just go out and shoot someone." (Kennedy was pronounced dead in the early morning hours of June 6.)
0:15:13: George Wallace speaking at a press conference at the Jefferson Davis Hotel in Montgomery, Alabama, in June 1968, after Robert F. Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles. (Kennedy was pronounced dead in the early morning hours of June 6, more than 24 hours after he was shot; it is unclear whether this press conference took place before or after that.) When a reporter asks, "Governor do you fear for your life?" he mentions previous attacks and ends by saying, "We know that all people in public life today run risk because of this breakdown of law and order, but you cannot let that deter you from carrying on, keeping on." Cecil Jackson and Seymore Trammell are standing with him.
0:16:37: Albert Brewer giving his first press conference as governor on June 5, 1968. He pledges his dedication to his new position; announces that he has authorized additional security to guard George Wallace during his presidential campaign; and discusses white citizens' response to a recent federal court order mandating the use of "attendance zones" rather than school choice to achieve desegregation in Mobile County schools: "Those people are indicating, according to press reports, that they're going to take their children out of the schools, that they're simply not going to go to school there. There's a very tense atmosphere there it could endanger, of course, the peace and tranquility that has existed in Mobile County, a county that has enjoyed excellent race relations in Alabama. If this is done and people start setting up private schools and this sort of thing, then of course the public support that goes to that system, now based on the average daily attendance formula that's used under the minimum program fund, would be seriously weakened, that is reduced, and the school system would lose these funds from its operating funds. And more importantly than that, perhaps, is the fact that if we lose public support for public education in our state, then for those of us who are concerned in trying to improve public education in our state, our task is made more difficult. These problems require public support to be solved, and if the public is no longer faithful and interested in the public school system then we're not going to be able to meet our responsibilities toward improving public education in Alabama. This to me is the real serious aspect of this problem."
0:20:04: Governor Albert Brewer expressing his opposition to the use of whiskey agents (sometimes called "liquor agents" or "brokers") during a press conference on November 27, 1968: "I'm very much concerned about the practice of whiskey agents, if we want to call them that, of people who get paid by whiskey companies and who do nothing by way of service in order to justify the money that they receive. . . . whether you call a man an agent or a broker or whatever it may be, if he in fact renders no service, then there's something immoral about his drawing pay for that. . . . I have to be critical of a brokerage arrangement . . . because as I understand it, the broker here performed no real service, that the orders for the merchandise went direct to the company, were picked up uh at the company warehouse and hauled to the state warehouse, checks paying for the merchandise were sent direct to the company. In other words, nothing went through the broker."
0:24:06: Public Safety Director Floyd Mann speaking at a press conference on November 27, 1968. He urges drivers to be careful while traveling during the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, and he specifically mentions the heavy traffic that will be in Birmingham for the Iron Bowl.
0:24:46: Governor Brewer speaking at a press conference on November 27, 1968, the day before Thanksgiving. He asks citizens to travel carefully during the upcoming holiday weekend: "Our traffic toll seems to just keep on being bad every weekend, and we're doing things that you gentlemen already know about: Colonel Mann and the department with special squads going into areas where accident rates have been high and all sorts of measures like this to try to strengthen our law enforcement, and yet it seems that people just persist in trying to kill each other on the highways, and it's a tragic and senseless waste of life and property. I just I want to encourage all of our people to be very, very careful."
0:26:03: Governor Albert Brewer discussing his opposition to use of whiskey agents during a press conference on November 27, 1968. He specifically mentions that he has instructed the ABC Board not to purchase liquor from the Ezra Brooks company unless it can do so directly (without the use of a broker).
0:26:33: Judge Richard Emmet addressing a Kiwanis meeting at the Whitley Hotel in Montgomery in November 1968. He discusses a proposed mental health facility that would be dedicated to the "rehabilitation of brain injured and neurologically disorganized children" in central Alabama.
0:27:28: Governor Albert Brewer continuing his discussion about whiskey agents during a press conference on November 27, 1968. Specifically, he alludes to a recent syndicated column (written by David Anderson of Washington D.C.) accusing one of George Wallace's prominent supporters of receiving kickbacks from a Birmingham firm that served as a broker for the Ezra Brooks company.
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