Eastland Recordings: Only Available Upon Request

Television program "The Mike Wallace Interview" with Guest U.S. Senator James O. Eastland

Identifier

eastland_16mm_5

Creation Date

7-28-1957

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Description

Television program "The Mike Wallace Interview" with guest U.S. Senator James O. Eastland. Includes Wallace's endorsements of Philip Morris cigarettes. The interview covers civil rights, segregation, and race relations; history of the South with regards to slavery and Reconstruction; communist propoganda against the United States; integration of public schools; voting registration; Ku Klux Klan; John Kaspar's Seaboard White Citizens Council; and a southern filibuster of the civil rights bill. Philip Morris cigarette commercial at the end of the program followed by a discussion of the next week's program on the dispute between baseball players and owners.

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

Eastland, James O. (James Oliver), 1904-1986; Philip Morris and Company; Tobacco; Cigarettes; Civil rights; Race relations; Segregation; Slavery; Reconstruction; Communists; School integration; Suffrage; Ku Klux Klan (1915- ); Kaspar, John

Relational Format

video recording

Extent

29m59s

Original Format

16mm

Original Collection

James O. Eastland Collection, Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries

Rights

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Comments

Shipping container label:'"United States Senate Public Document, James O. Eastland U.S.S.' Mr. Courtney C. Pace, Eastland Campaign Headquarters, 760 Milner Building, Post Office Box 1021, Jackson, Mississippi"' On front of container in black and red ink handwritten:'"Eastland Black and White"' Bottom of shipping container in black ink:'"Jan"''"Head ABC-TV Prod. GH10947NO 17 Mike Wallace Date 7-28-57 1062 Ft. 29 Min. 30 Sec.''

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