| Summary: | The following segments are included:
0:00:01: Public hearing held by the Senate Education Committee on July 11, 1967, to debate a proposed "speaker ban bill," which would have prohibited state-funded schools from inviting Communists to speak on campus. The bill, which ultimately failed, was introduced by Senator Leland Childs.
0:04:31: Senators Roland Cooper and Tom Radney debating about legislative meeting days and vacation pay. (In July 1967, the Senate passed a resolution to stop legislative pay during a 12-day vacation period, but it did so after the House had already adjourned for that break. The Senate had also started working three days a week, while the House was only working two; because of a cap on the number of days per legislative session, a working day for either house counted for both, and thus the representatives lost both hours and pay during the session.)
0:06:22: Dr. Ira L. Myers, state health officer, addressing the Montgomery Kiwanis Club during a luncheon at the Whitley Hotel on July 11, 1967. Myers discussed the need to address air and water pollution problems in Alabama, as well as the state's plan for enacting water quality standards, which was waiting approval from the U.S. Secretary of the Interior. The footage is silent.
0:07:26: Alabama Air National Guard at summer training camp at Gulfport, Mississippi. The footage is silent.
0:09:31: Public hearing held by the Senate Education Committee on July 11, 1967, to debate a proposed "speaker ban bill," which would have prohibited state-funded schools from inviting Communists to speak on campus. The bill, which ultimately failed, was introduced by Senator Leland Childs.
0:12:09: Senators Roland Cooper and Tom Radney debating about legislative meeting days and vacation pay. (In July 1967, the Senate passed a resolution to stop legislative pay during a 12-day vacation period, but it did so after the House had already adjourned for that break. The Senate had also started working three days a week, while the House was only working two; because of a cap on the number of days per legislative session, a working day for either house counted for both, and thus the representatives lost both hours and pay during the session.)
0:13:54: Former senator Neil Metcalf speaking about the recommendations issued by the Joint Interim Committee on Ad Valorem Taxation in July 1967. Metcalf, who served as general counsel to the committee, sponsored the legislation that led to its establishment during a special legislative session in 1966.
0:14:54: Aftermath of a fire on Dexter Avenue in Montgomery, Alabama. The fire started before dawn on July 6, 1967, and burned for six hours, destroying six businesses (Carl's Men's Shoe Store, Marilyn Shoes, Hardy Shoe Store, The Fashion Shop, Eleanor Shop) and damaging three others (Warner's Women's Shop, The Hub, and Belk-Hudson). Fireman Hershel O. Roy was killed when an he was thrown from a ladder by an explosion in one of the buildings. The footage is silent.
0:15:42: W. T. Mallory, dire chief in Montgomery, Alabama, discussing the fire that damaged or destroyed six businesses on Dexter Avenue on July 6, 1967.
0:18:46: Teenage boys stretching and running on a track, possibly at a school in Montgomery, Alabama.
0:19:21: Prayer service for Governor Lurleen Wallace, who was having cancer surgery in Houston, Texas. The Legislature had adopted a resolution declaring July 7, 1967, a statewide day of prayer for the governor.
0:20:27: Congressman Bill Dickinson addressing an audience at the Whitley Hotel in Montgomery, Alabama. He criticizes U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark for not taking action against "professional agitators and instigators of riots," specifically mentioning Stokely Carmichael, who had been arrested in Prattville in June 1967.
0:21:28: Meeting of the executive committee of the Alabama Republican Party in Montgomery on July 8, 1967.
0:21:56: Tandy Little discussing the budget of the Alabama Republican Party at a meeting of the party's executive committee on July 8, 1967. He mentions both recent campaign losses and the prospects for success in the next election.
0:23:02: Jim Martin discussing the objectives of the Alabama Republican Party at a meeting of the party's executive committee on July 8, 1967: "So we have two prime objectives, to defeat Johnson and to nominate a conservative on the Republican ticket to do that job."
0:24:29: Tandy Little discussing the budget of the Alabama Republican Party at a meeting of the party's executive committee on July 8, 1967.
0:25:36: Jim Martin discussing the upcoming Republican National Convention during a meeting of the Alabama Republican Party's executive committee on July 8, 1967: "I believe southerners will work in a unified, powerful group. . . . They'll be for the most conservative candidate we can get. With Reagan coming up in the west, if the star continues to rise, I can see the South as perhaps swinging to him if Nixon loses out and doesn't have a chance of winning. I think the South will name the next nominee on the Republican ticket, thereby securing for the South a position of great political power. And that man might just be Ronald Reagan of California."
0:26:38: Fourth of July parade on Madison Avenue in Montgomery, Alabama. Paul Harvey is riding in a convertible with Mayor Earl James.
0:28:06: Senate committee meeting at the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. William McDermott, Junie Pierce, Bob Harris, Woodrow Albea, Leland Childs, Aubrey Carr, John Hawkins, Walter C. Givhan, Fred Folsom, Ray Lolley, Tom Radney, James Clark, and Pierre Pelham. The footage is silent.
0:29:01: Senator Emmett Oden speaking during a public hearing held by the Senate Temperance Committee on July 12, 1967, to debate several bills related to liquor sales in Alabama. Oden wrote one of the bills, which called for a statewide "wet-dry" referendum on whether or not to continue liquor sales in the state.
0:31:23: Public hearing held by the Senate Temperance Committee on July 12, 1967, to debate several bills related to liquor sales in Alabama. One of the bills called for a statewide "wet-dry" referendum, and another would allow cities in dry counties to decide for themselves whether or not to allow liquor sales. Among the speakers is Senator Joe Goodwyn, who wrote the local option bill.
0:33:51: Senate committee meeting at the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. Among those present are Tom Radney, Bo Torbert, Joe Goodwyn, William McDermott, and Wallace Lindsey. The footage is silent.
0:34:34: Montgomery County grand jury meeting to examine charges against John Graves, the state comptroller, who had been accused of misusing funds by padding his expense account. Ultimately, the jury chose not to indict him. The footage is silent.
0:35:01: Admiral Thomas Moorer at the airport in Montgomery, Alabama. Moorer, a native of Eufaula, had just been appointed chief of naval operations of the U.S. Navy. The footage is silent.
(The notes accompanying the original film also mention footage of Governor Lurleen Wallace leaving Montgomery for Houston, Texas. According to the notes, the footage had been removed, and it was not found on the reel during digitization.)
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