| Summary: | The following segments are included:
0:00:01: Meeting of the Senate Education Committee in Room 203 of the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, on August 1, 1967. The subject of the meeting was the proposed "speaker ban bill," which would have prohibited state-funded schools from inviting Communists to speak on campus. Among those senators visible are Ollie Nabors, Junie Pierce, Leland Childs, James Branyon, James Adams, Pierre Pelham, Ray Lolley, Tom Radney, and Fred Folsom. The footage is silent.
0:00:44: House Ways and Means Committee discussing a package of bills that would change state ad valorem (property) taxes in the House chamber of the Capitol on August 1, 1967. Among the individuals present are Representative Pete Mathews, chair of the committee; Representative Joe McCorquodale, who sponsored the bills; and Larry Dumas, former senator from Jefferson County, who opposed the legislation.
0:04:42: Filibuster over the proposed education appropriations bill in the Senate chamber at the Capitol on August 1, 1967. Among those visible are senators Bob Harris, William McDermott, Roland Cooper, Aubrey Carr, James Clark; Lieutenant Governor Albert Brewer; finance director Seymore Trammell; and former senator Clayton Carter of Marshall County.
0:07:14: WSFA-TV's Bob Inman interviewing Lieutenant Governor Albert Brewer at the Capitol on August 1, 1967. Brewer expresses optimism that the key points of the governor's program (in particular, appropriations, mental health, and state parks) before will be passed before the end of the session, and reports favorably on the outcome of recent legislative reapportionment: ". . . generally, I think the legislature has adapted to it. It's no longer a geographical matter of the one section of the state against another section of the state. Now it's a large-county, small-county line that's drawn, generally, and this has not worked to the disadvantage of the people because all of the people are represented. Neither side has sufficient strength to run over the other side, but each has sufficient strength to keep from being run over, so it's worked out pretty well." They also discuss tensions in the Senate over issues such as educational appropriations and ad valorem tax, and whether that might prevent the passage of important legislation.
0:09:46: Captain David L. Hosley addressing a meeting of the Kiwanis Club at the Whitley Hotel on August 1, 1967. Hosley had been stationed in South Vietnam for a year, and during his lecture to the club he discussed the life and customs he observed among the local people there. The footage is silent.
0:10:27: Meeting of the House Agriculture Committee in at the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, on August 1 or 2, 1967. The footage is silent.
0:11:03: Highway 78 West team of Birmingham playing a game in the Dixie Boys' Baseball Tournament, which was held at Meadowview Park in Selma, Alabama, from July 31 to August 5, 1967. The opponents' uniforms are not legible here, but Highway 78 West played and won the following games, ultimately securing the championship: against Bessemer on July 31; against Dothan on August 1; against Hueytown on August 3; against Southside on August 4; and against Hueytown again on August 5. (Most members on the team are wearing "Astros" uniforms provided by the Forestdale Service Station, and at least one team member has an "East Thomas" jersey.)
0:11:32: Filibuster over the proposed education appropriations bill in the Senate chamber at the Capitol on August 2, 1967. Also included are clips of an interview by WSFA-TV's Bob Inman with Senator James Clark, who blames the senators in the "urban counties" for delaying passage of the appropriations bills: "Now the responsibility for not taking this opportunity is going to fall on the those from the urban counties who are filibustering, and not on the administration because we are making serious attempt to get these bills up, pass them, get them back to the House so they'll have plenty of time to consider them. There's no, there's not any move whatsoever on the part of the administration to wait until the last day and have this mad rush in which these bills cannot be given their proper attention." Among the other senators visible are Richard Dominick, Leland Childs, Ray Lolley, and Pat Vacca.
0:14:47: Meeting of the Senate Finance and Taxation Committee at the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, on August 1 or 2, 1967. Among those seated or standing around the table are Alton Turner (chairman), Bo Torbert, Ollie Nabors, William Oden, Eddie Gilmore, Pat Vacca, Walter Givhan, Junie Pierce, James Clark, Mylan Engel, Jack Giles, Roland Cooper, Ray Lolley, and Fred Folsom. The footage is silent.
0:15:18: Meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee in Room 203 of the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, on August 1 or 2, 1967. Among those seated or standing around the table are Joe Goodwyn (chairman), Ollie Nabors, Fred Folsom, Richard Dominick, Pat Vacca, Wallace Lindsey, Jack Giles, E. W. Skidmore, and Woodrow Albea.
0:16:17: Students and chaperones boarding an air taxi plane after arriving in Alabama for the Montgomery Lions Club International Youth Camp in August 1967.
0:16:54: Attendees of the Montgomery Lions Club International Youth Camp visiting former governor George Wallace at the Capitol on August 2, 1967. Forty-nine young men participated in the camp, including 26 students representing the following countries: Austria, Canada, Germany, Denmark, France, Congo, The Netherlands, India, Israel, Japan, Iceland, Italy, and Sweden.
0:17:36: Senator Albert Turner speaking about a recent Baldwin County land purchase in the Senate chamber of the Capitol on August 2, 1967. The same day, Ted Pearson had published a front-page article in the Birmingham News ("Senators involved in land buying where Mobile Bay Bridge proposed") suggesting that Turner and Senator Mylan Engel used their authority and inside knowledge for personal gain: "Land activity, for speculative and long-range investment purposes and apparently geared in hopes that a multi-million-dollar high-rise bridge will ultimately send property values soaring, has taken a sudden spurt on a largely undeveloped peninsula of South Baldwin County." Turner directs his comments at journalist Al Fox, Pearson's colleague at the News: "I felt like that you didn't want to report the fact that I was involved in a land sale in Baldwin County without also covering all the facts that I do own some land down in Crenshaw. It's subdivided into building lots, if you would . . . quote that, and you could state in your article that if anybody's interested, that I would give them a price upon request. And I do appreciate Ted Pearson and the Birmingham News making an accurate report, but I hope you also headline tomorrow, Al, if you call in, that I do own 17 acres down there that I'd like to sell, too."
0:18:27: Senate clerk reading a proposed executive amendment to a joint legislative resolution on August 2, 1967. The resolution required state-supported institutions of higher learning to fly both the Alabama and Confederate flags alongside the American flag at each homecoming game, and to play the corresponding anthems ("Star Spangled Banner," "Alabama," and "Dixie") as each was hoisted. Governor Lurleen Wallace's amendment expanded the requirement to include "each football contest held within the state of Alabama," but that was not included in the final legislation. (For the full text of the resolution, Act No. 179, see https://archive.org/details/alabama-acts-1967_v1/page/n535.)
0:19:18: Silent footage of a meeting about the Commissioners Cup National Sports Car Race at the Governor's House Motel in Montgomery on August 2, 1967. The race would be held at the Montgomery Industrial Terminal on August 12 and 13.
0:19:55: Statement by Congressman Bill Nichols in Washington D.C. on August 2, 1967. He discusses recent riots in major cities in the United States (specifically mentioning Stokely Carmichael) and legislation that he introduced that would "make it a federal offense for any person to violate passport restrictions by traveling to Communist countries . . . I would certainly hope that this would be a deterrent to these radicals who go into Communist countries and consort with the enemy and hurt and destroy all the good things that this country was built upon."
0:21:15: WSFA-TV's Charles Caton interviewing former governor George Wallace on August 3, 1967. They discuss the possibility of a legislative a recess before the start of the next school year, which would leave the Legislature several days to address federally mandated integration in September, and they also mention Governor Lurleen Wallace's recovery following cancer surgery in Houston, Texas, and the effect that might have on George's intention to run for president in 1968.
0:23:21: Silent of legislators in the House chamber at the Capitol in Montgomery in August 1967, during regular legislative session.
0:23:50: WSFA-TV's Charles Caton interviewing former governor George Wallace on August 3, 1967. Wallace criticizes national party leaders, particularly with respect to federally mandated school integration: "The most serious thing facing the people of this nation is the takeover of the education of our children, their hearts and minds, telling who can teach them, where they can go to school, and this coming August, the last of August and September, we're going to see one of the most confused school situations throughout this nation that you've ever seen. It's not going to be in the interest of any child in this state, and if Mr. Reagan, Mr. Nixon, Mr. Romney, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Humphrey, or any of the rest of them don't say they're going to turn that system back to us, then as far as I'm concerned, they're all the same."
0:24:58: Footage of debates in the Senate chamber of the Capitol on August 3, 1967. Included are clips from a filibuster over the proposed education appropriations bill, as well as comments about a bill that would suspend the licenses of drivers refusing to take alcohol tests when accused of drunk driving. Among those visible here are Lieutenant Governor Albert Brewer; Senate secretary McDowell Lee; and senators Roland Cooper, Bo Torbert, William McDermott, Bob Harris, James Clark, William Oden, Tom Radney, William McCarley, Richard Dominick, Ray Lolley, Walter C. Givhan, and James Branyon.
0:28:48: Remains of an automobile that ran underneath the trailer of a large truck on South Boulevard in Montgomery on August 3, 1967. The driver, Kathleen McCurdy, survived the wreck with only minor injuries. The footage is silent.
0:29:18: Silent footage of construction progress at Jefferson Davis High School on Carter Hill Road in Montgomery on August 3, 1967. (In 2022, the school was renamed Johnson Abernathy Graetz High School.)
0:30:05: Interview with Jimmy Wallace, president of Laura Industries in Selma, on August 3, 1967, the first day of a wildcat strike at the plant. Also included is footage of the interior of the empty factory.
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