Year

1965 (circa)

Video Details

13:00; color; silent and sound; V-208 BA318; S.1239

Description

This film includes still shots of Gov. Claude Kirk with his wife Erika giving speeches and talking with Gov. LeRoy Collins (silent). Gov. Reubin Askew introduces US Sen. Edmund Muskie, who has been invited to attend a Florida Cabinet session. He compares Florida's unique Cabinet system to the executive Cabinet system of Maine. He praises the new progressive Democratic leadership of the south (sound). Farris Bryant introduces first lady Ladybird Johnson, who speaks at Florida State University's Ruby Diamond auditorium. She comments on her "whistle-stop" tour of the south, education issues and Florida's role in the space program. There is additional footage including Luci Baines Johnson, who is pictured wearing an Indian headdress. Sen. Claude Pepper and Sen. George Smathers are also present. Produced by WFSU-TV.

Contributors

WFSU-TV

Corporate Subject

Florida State University (Tallahassee, Fla.)

Geographic Subject

Tallahassee

Personal Subject

Askew, Reubin O'D., 1928-
Bryant, Farris, 1914-2002
Collins, LeRoy, 1909-1991
Johnson, Ladybird, 1912-2007
Johnson, Luci Baines, 1947-
Kirk, Erika Carola Mattfeld Dolabella, 1934-2023
Kirk, Claude R., 1926-2011
Muskie, Edmund, 1914-1996
Smathers, George, 1913-2007

Subject

Activists
Economic conditions
Governors-Florida
National Democratic Party
Politicians
Politics
Space program
Speeches