Year

1964-04-02

Video Details

32:15; b&w; sound; V-219 EA041; S. 828

Description

Tension mounts in this press conference when Gov. Farris Bryant declines to comment at length on the purpose of a secretive personal trip to Washington, D.C. He remarks on the use of the Florida National Guard in response to racial or civil unrest, construction plans for the Florida causeway and the success of the Florida Development Commission. Gov. Bryant also comments on the arrest of Elizabeth Peabody, mother of then-Massachusetts Gov. Endicott Peabody, for her participation in a civil rights march in St. Augustine. Produced by the Florida Development Commission.

Contributors

Florida Development Commission

Corporate Subject

Florida Development Commission
Florida National Guard

Geographic Subject

Saint Augustine
Tallahassee
Washington (D.C.)

Personal Subject

Bryant, Farris, 1914-2002
Peabody, Elizabeth
Peabody, Endicott, 1920-1997

Subject

Civil rights
Demonstrations
Governors-Florida
Infrastructure
Politicians
Politics
Race relations
Transportation