| Summary: | The following segments are included:
0:00:01: Men arriving at the federal building in Montgomery, Alabama, before a court hearing on the new teacher choice act on September 16, 1967. Among those present is Senator Alton Turner, one of the act's sponsors. (For the full text of the legislation, see https://archive.org/details/alabama-acts-1967_v2/page/n73.)
0:00:44: Curtis LeMay speaking at a press conference in Montgomery, Alabama, while in town for a Republican fundraiser at the Jefferson Davis Hotel on September 16, 1967. (The clip is short and silent; for more extensive footage of the same event, see https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/wsfa/id/1304.)
0:00:51: WSFA-TV's Bob Inman interviewing General Walter B. Putnam, commander of the Fourteenth Air Force at Gunter Air Force, on September 16, 1967. He discusses the role of the Army Air Corps in World War II, and he stresses the continued importance of the Air Force in matters of national defense: ". . . we are recently reactivated in this Flying Tiger 14th Air Force. The mission is exactly the same, and that is to defend this country against the enemy. Now my command embraces the whole South and Southeast over a 12-state area. The job's more difficult, it's more serious than even in the China days, but the mission is still the same, to prevent the enemy from attacking this country."
0:05:56: WSFA-TV's Bob Inman interviewing Lieutenant General John W. Carpenter, commander of Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base, on September 17, 1967. The discuss the role of the Air Force (and its predecessor, the Army Air Corps) in World War II, Korea, the Cuban Crisis, and Vietnam; the development of "tactical aviation," nuclear weapons, and "strategic bombing" (which he contends "forms the basis for all the strategy of the U.S. Air Force today"); "tactical aviation," and nuclear weapons; and the importance of the educational and training opportunities offered by Air University.
0:11:42: Congressman Bill Dickinson speaking about Vietnam war at the weekly meeting of the Montgomery Jaycees on September 18, 1967: "We did in Europe, we did in the Pacific, we did in Korea, but we do not in Vietnam. The reason is, gentlemen that this is not a military war in any traditional concept of and meaning of that term. This war is not being run by our military leaders. The targets that are bombed in Vietnam, whether it be North Vietnam or South Vietnam are approved first in Washington . . . I have a 15-year-old boy that will probably see service in Vietnam and I have a 12-year-old boy that might see service in Vietnam the way we're going now."
0:12:59: WSFA-TV's Charles Caton interviewing Claude Kelley, director of the Alabama Department of Conservation, on September 18, 1967. They discuss the start of dove season in the state, which would open on September 23. (That year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had initially restricted the daily start time to 1:00 p.m., but a week into the season the time was adjusted to noon, giving hunters an extra hour each day.)
0:14:22: Colonel C. W. Russell, director of the Alabama Department of Public Safety, reporting on the number of traffic fatalities in Alabama the previous weekend. Also included is a message about increased traffic related to football games: "Football season is here and will be here for some time. This means there will be high school games Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night. There will also be college games throughout the state every weekend. This means our highways will be congested with traffic. Please obey all traffic laws. The state troopers will be out in full force trying to make our highways safe. You can expect radar to be used extensively throughout the football season. Your corporation and safe driving will certainly be appreciated."
0:15:13: Congressman Bill Dickinson speaking about Vietnam war at the weekly meeting of the Montgomery Jaycees on September 18, 1967: "We have everything that it takes to win in Vietnam except the authority. As I said at the beginning, there is no long-term comprehensive plan to win in Vietnam. I ask the Under Secretary of State William Bundy, 'Mr. Secretary, if we are 100% successful in Vietnam, if we achieve everything thing that we wish, where will we be and what will we have accomplished?' His answer in effect was that we would be exactly where we started. Now this scares me. This scares me because I am most apprehensive that there is entirely too much direction, control and authority vested in the executive, and through him in the Secretary of Defense, because after all, our Secretary of Defense is not infallible. As has been said, he built the first Edsel, and Secretary Rusk bought it."
0:16:43: Agent Johnson reporting on the progress "Operation Dry Up," a statewide campaign to destroy Alabama moonshine operations that launched the week of September 17, 1967. (The interview took place on September 19.)
0:18:05: Interview on September 19, 1967, about the shortage of welfare workers in Alabama and the need for more funding to hire staff and provide public assistance: "We think as long as people are concerned and interested and we know Congress has been aroused by a number of our own Congressional Delegation and people in this state writing urging that more funds be made available. I can't tell you there will be a miracle with money because our people must be motivated to go in social work, they must like children but do more than that, they must be ready to gain some professional confidence and be disciplined and think not of themselves but of the state responsibilities and of the child's best interest first."
0:20:49: Interview with Lee County law enforcement officers on September 20, 1967, about the upcoming extradition hearing for murder suspect Edward Albert Seibold, who had been captured in Miami, Florida, on September 16. (Seibold was ultimately convicted of killing Mary Lynn Sinclair, Sarah Elizabeth Sinclair, and Mary Durant in Auburn, Alabama, the night of September 6.)
0:21:40: Gary Dickey, former editor of the student newspaper at Troy State College, speaking to a reporter in Auburn on September 20, 1967. Earlier in the month, Dickey had won a federal lawsuit filed against the school after he was been denied readmission for writing editorials critical of state government officials. Rather than returning to Troy, he enrolled at Auburn University to pursue a major in journalism.
Gary Dickey, former editor of the student newspaper at Troy State College, speaking to a reporter in Auburn, Alabama, on September 20, 1967. Earlier in the month, Dickey had won a federal lawsuit filed against the school after he was been denied readmission for writing editorials critical of state government officials. Rather than returning to Troy, he enrolled at Auburn University to major in journalism.
0:21:51: Paul W. Airey, Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Air Force, speaking at Craig Air Force Base on September 20, 1967. (According to an article published in the Montgomery Advertiser on September 20, Airey was scheduled to speak to Air University Squadron Officer School students at Maxwell Air Force Base on September 21.)
0:22:46: Labor law reform workshop presented by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce the at the Whitley Hotel in Montgomery on September 20, 1967. The footage is silent.
0:23:19: Interview with Lee County law enforcement officers on September 20, 1967, about the upcoming extradition hearing for murder suspect Edward Albert Seibold, who had been captured in Miami, Florida, on September 16.
0:24:29: Gary Dickey, former editor of the student newspaper at Troy State College, speaking to a reporter in Auburn, Alabama, on September 20, 1967. He defends the work that led to his being denied readmission at Troy, and he discusses his current plans to pursue a journalism degree at Auburn University.
0:25:37: Paul W. Airey, Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Air Force, attending a ceremony at Craig Air Force Base on September 20, 1967. The footage is silent.
0:26:10: Interview with Anthony J. Obadal, labor relations attorney for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, during a labor law reform workshop he led at the Whitley Hotel in Montgomery on September 20, 1967: "The United States Chamber thinks that the time has come for us to do something about the immense amount of labor strife that we're going through right now. National strikes are jeopardizing the economy and the jobs of everyone in the United States. Vital industries, the police force, the teachers, are also going on strike now, and we feel that something has to be done to settle down these disputes. Part of the answer we think lies in the fact that unions have excessive power at this point, and imbalance has resulted over the years because the law has consistently granted them privileges and immunities. The time has come, I think, to impose some responsibilities on them."
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