Reflections on Georgia Politics: Oral History Sampler
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Reflections on Georgia Politics, a Russell Library oral
history program, features conversations with prominent Georgians.
Historian and veteran political consultant Bob Short brings 50 years
of experience in Georgia politics to the series, engaging public
servants, grass roots activists, and "back room boys" in illuminating
and lively discourse. With over 50 programs recorded and counting, a
new interview is added on average every ten days. This video is a
sampler reel of some of the interviews thus far completed.
Richard B. Russell Library Oral History Documentary Collection: No Other Road: 1953 Red and Black Editors Stand Up for Equality and Free Speech, November 10, 2003
Source tapes, edited masters, and accompanying documentation of No Other Road, a public oral history, from November 10, 2003, in which Walter Lundy, Bill Shipp, Priscilla Arnold Davis, and Gene Britton discuss in front of an audience their experiences as editors of the University of Georgia newspaper, Red and Black, in 1953. Other participants include UGA President Michael Adams, Dr. Maurice Daniels, Dr. Kent Middleton, Dr. Derrick Alridge, Horace Ward, and Harry Montevideo. Topics include the desegregation of public schools in general and Horace Ward’s experience at the University of Georgia in particular, along with a discussion of free speech issues relating to the resignation of the four editors.
Oversight or Overlook? Intelligence in the Modern World
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3/08/06 — David M. Barrettprovides a provocative account of relations between American spymasters and Capitol Hill in his recently published book, The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy. Join Barrett and a panel of UGA experts on modern intelligence gathering—Dr. Loch K. Johnson, co-author of Who's Watching The Spies?; Powell Moore (ABJ), senior congressional and presidential aide and Donald Rumsfeld's first Asst. Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs; and Dr. Michael C. Speckhard, CIA officer-in-residence, University of Georgia—to discuss the structure of intelligence and questions of its oversight in light of current events.
In 2004, the Russell Library asked political writer Bill Shipp to
interview Griffin Bell.
Griffin Boyette Bell was born October 31, 1918, in Sumter County,
Georgia. After attending Georgia Southwestern College for a time, Bell
left to work in his father's tire store in Americus. He was drafted in
1942, serving in the Army Quartermaster Corps and the Transportation
Corps at Fort Lee, Virginia. Upon his discharge in 1946, he enrolled
in Mercer University Law School, and became city attorney of Warner
Robins before graduating or passing the Georgia bar exam. Following
his graduation he worked in Savannah and Rome before joining in 1953
what would become King and Spalding in Atlanta. His interest in
politics led to his appointment to chief of staff for Governor Ernest
Vandiver and his subsequent involvement with the Sibley Commission,
organized to oversee desegregation of Georgia's public schools. In
1961 President John F. Kennedy appointed Bell to the Fifth U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals, and he spent 14 years on the bench,
returning to King and Spalding only to be nominated U.S. Attorney
General by Jimmy Carter in 1976. He served in that position from 1977
to 1979, returning to Atlanta to practice law. He led investigations
of E.F. Hutton in 1985 and the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, and
also served on the Commission of Federal Ethics Law Reform at the
request of President George H.W. Bush. Griffin Bell died January 5,
2009. He was ninety years old.
An interview with Carl
Sanders, in which the former Georgia governor
describes his political ascendancy following his
service in World War II, discusses Augusta’s
Cracker Party, his victory over Marvin Griffin in
1962, and his defeat by Jimmy Carter in 1970.
An interview with Tom Watson Brown, including discussions of Tom Watson, the Leo Frank case, Walter J. Brown, James F. Byrnes, Strom Thurmond, MARTA, the Watson-Brown Foundation and the T.R.R. Cobb House.
An interview with Georgia Commissioner of Veterans Services Pete Wheeler regarding his long career, his development of the “Supermarket of Veterans Services,” and his involvement with the National World War II Memorial Committee.
An interview with Margaret Bennett, detailing her life in the diplomatic corps and as the wife of Foreign Service Officer and U. S. Ambassador William Tapley Bennett, Jr.
An interview with Anthony Alaimo by Charles E. Campbell. Topics include his experiences as a prisoner of war in Germany during World War II, his time as an attorney in Atlanta, and his tenure as a judge in the U.S. District Court.
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