Year

1970 (circa)

Video Details

19:50; color & B&W; sound; V-146

Description

The program starts with Collins talking about his loss in the 1968 Senate race, and the relation of that loss to the civil rights issue. Moves on to footage of Collins in the woods with a group of children discussing Kipling's poem "If." The film then moves to the 1960 Democratic Convention. Collins is introduced by Frank Church. John F. Kennedy and his family are introduced, including his mother, three of his sisters, and his two brothers. There are short clips of Eleanor Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, and Walter Cronkite. Collins gives the opening address and introduces Adlai Stevenson. Stevenson then introduces John F. Kennedy as the next president of the United States.

Contributors

St. Petersburg Times

Corporate Subject

Great Floridians

Geographic Subject

Tallahassee
The Grove (Tallahassee, Fla.)

Personal Subject

Collins, LeRoy, 1909-1991

Subject

Civil rights
Civil rights movement
Governors--Florida
Interviews
Political campaigns
Politicians
Politics