- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Title:
- Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of Governor Lester Maddox speaking to the Atlanta Press Club about transparency on the State Board of Pardons and Paroles and teacher pay, Atlanta, Georgia, 1967 December 20
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003
- Date of Original:
- 1967-12-20
- Subject:
- Speeches, addresses, etc.
Transparency in government--Georgia
Public meetings--Georgia
Parole boards--Government employees
Political corruption--Georgia
Parole boards--Corrupt practices
Teachers--Salaries, etc.
Georgia--Officials and employees - People:
- Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- moving images
news
unedited footage - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips from Atlanta, Georgia on December 20, 1967, Governor Lester Maddox speaks to the Atlanta Press Club about transparency on the State Board of Pardons and Paroles as well as teacher pay.
The clips open with a shot of Lester Maddox speaking to the Atlanta Press Club, then shows a shot of the crowd which consists mostly of unidentified white men and a few unidentified white women. The next clip has audio. Maddox's remarks are transcribed in full below.
"It's shocking to know that after all these years, the Parole Board in Georgia has never held open formal meetings to take action on cases. It has held hearings, but it has never sat at a Board regularly in a business-like way to handle matters of executive clemency [...] be too critical of the present people in the area because they have been part in what has been going on all these years. What is wrong with the Board holding a meeting, a public meeting? Why not public decisions of a public body, publicly arrived at? Would not seem that in this day and time that a Governor should have to call upon a Board in the state of Georgia to hold a formal meeting to transact business open to all, where they report of the proceedings of that meeting sent to the Governor and made available to the public and the press."
"I'm glad that we're ahead in our teacher pay and we're going to stay ahead and we're going to get further ahead in 1968 and we're going to keep doing the job, regardless of criticism, regardless of the obstructions [...] You think I'm going to turn back on the field of education because we got a tight money situation, then you got another thought coming, and anyone else that thinks I'm going to turn back on it."
Title supplied by cataloger.
Supporting information taken from the following source: Tyson, Remer. "Maddox Asks End Of Parole Secrecy." The Atlanta Constitution 21 December 1967. 1. Web. - Local Identifier:
- Clip number: wsbn52626
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/news/id:wsbn52626
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/news/do:wsbn52626
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: wsbn52626, Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of Governor Lester Maddox speaking to the Atlanta Press Club about transparency on the State Board of Pardons and Paroles and teacher pay, Atlanta, Georgia, 1967 December 20, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 1427, 14:31/16:18, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 clip (about 1 mins., 47 secs.): color, sound ; 16 mm.
- Original Collection:
- Original found in the WSB-TV newsfilm collection.
- Holding Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
-
