WSFA audiovisual item D150.0001

The following segments are included: 0:00:01: Interview with finance director Bob Ingram about the successful establishment of a state motor pool. Most of the cars that had been assigned full-time to individual employees were turned in to be either added to the pool or sold at auction. This interv...

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Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/wsfa/id/1302
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Summary:The following segments are included: 0:00:01: Interview with finance director Bob Ingram about the successful establishment of a state motor pool. Most of the cars that had been assigned full-time to individual employees were turned in to be either added to the pool or sold at auction. This interview was filmed in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, in July 1968, a couple of weeks after the transition began. 0:02:25: Governor Albert Brewer discussing federal court hearings about Mobile County's school desegregation plan during his weekly press conference on July 17, 1968: "We're hopeful that the court there will be . . . responsive to the wishes of the people. Of course, again, I'm making a pitch for the plan that will be urged upon the court by the Mobile school board and by interested citizens there, the freedom of choice plan that we, though we didn't like it at first, have . . . come to believe is the best way for handling this problem, that it's the most democratic, that it is the one plan that assures us of continued public support for education in Alabama . . ." 0:03:50: WSFA-TV's Bob Inman interviewing an administrator at St. Jude's Catholic Hospital in Montgomery in May 1968. They discuss an area shortage of emergency room facilities and staff, which had been handled by rotating such responsibilities among the city's hospitals.