Year

1964

Video Details

32:20; B&W; sound; V-34 & 35 EA009; S. 828

Description

This film shows a debate between Democratic gubernatorial candidates Haydon Burns of Jacksonville and Robert King High of Miami. Issues of the day are argued in detail. Questions include the propriety of the "Negro Bloc Vote," reapportionment, changing the location of the state Capitol, and whether to make the Florida Department of Commerce Chairman a Cabinet member. The questions are followed by a final volley of accusations about NAACP support as a campaign issue. Kinescope. Part Number 2 is DA040.

Contributors

WTVJ

Geographic Subject

Miami

Personal Subject

Burns, Haydon, 1912-1987
High, Robert King, 1924-1967
Renick, Ralph

Subject

Civil rights
Debates
Governors--Florida
Gubernatorial elections
Political campaigns
Politics
NAACP
Radio
Television