Eastland Recordings: Only Available Upon Request

Reading of News Stories by U.S. Senator James O. Eastland Staff Member

Author Unknown

Identifier

eastland_cassette_31_B

Creation Date

1976

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Description

Reading of news stories by U.S. Senator James O. Eastland staff members with their own comments occasionally inserted. First story on indictments regarding Sterling Home Inc. fraud case and Rubel Phillips. Second story in Rankin County News on Eastland ordering the Internal Revenue Service to conduct audits of Mississippi Highway Department Director Boetler and other examples of Eastland's influence. Third story on Mississippi politics. Fourth story with Gil Carmichael's comments on the Mississippi Highway Department; Fifth story on Eastland and U.S. Senator Jennings Randolph as political campaign fundraisers; Sixth story from the Rankin County News on the Mississippi Highway Department with a quote by Gil Carmichael and discussion of lost federal funding for Tennessee-Tombigbee bridges.

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

Fraud; Sterling Brothers; Phillips, Rubel; Eastland, James O. (James Oliver), 1904-1986; Mississippi. State Highway Dept.; United States. Internal Revenue Service; Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998; Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Ala. and Miss.)

Relational Format

audio recording

Extent

26m23s

Original Format

audiocassettes

Original Collection

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

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Comments

[1976]

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