This series consists of four subseries: A. 1966-1969, B. Precinct 16-E Write-In Lost Votes, C. Morris v. Fortson , and D. Committee of One Million. Subseries A. consists of correspondence, press releases, telegrams, memorandums, pamphlets, and political advertisements. Subseries B. consists of correspondence, newspaper articles, and press releases related to the alleged mismanagement of polling stations. Subseries C. consists of plaintiff's trial briefs, motions, affidavits, and complaints related to the Reverend Morris, et al lawsuit against Secretary of the State of Georgia , Ben Fortson. Subseries D. consists of petitions filed to get Ellis Arnall's name on the campaign ballot for governor of Georgia.
This series includes artifacts from the manuscripts including campaign items, such as buttons, as well as items from Peterson's time as a politician in Washington, D.C., including automobile tags. Some items pertain to Peterson's home and property in Ailey, Georgia, which include rock samples from well drilling. Hand-painted campaign banners are described in Series II. Campaigns in Subseries I, Campaign Banners.
Dean Rusk Personal Papers, Series IX: Audiovisual, contains one 16mm film, four betacam videocassettes, 87 audiocassettes, 25 phonodiscs, 68 quarter-inch open reel audio tapes, 36 Umatic videocassettes, and 100 VHS videocassettes. The audio recordings range from Rusk's 1961 swearing-in as secretary of state to a 1995 memorial service for Rusk held at Davidson College. Many recordings are audio tracks of interviews conducted with Rusk for television, including a 1971 interview with Bill Moyers, a 1971 "Today" interview, appearances on all of the major networks discussing the impending 1972 presidential election, a 1973 interview with Rusk on the death of Lyndon B. Johnson, and a 1974 interview with William F. Buckley. Additional recordings include audio tracks for television programs on which Rusk did not appear but which held interest for him: a 1971 news segment on Nikita Khrushchev, a 1972 interview with Johnson by Walter Cronkite for CBS, a 1972 interview with David Halberstam on "Today," a 1972 interview with Walt and Eugene Rostow conducted by William F. Buckley, and several NBC and ABC specials concerning Vietnam. Other audio recordings include speeches delivered by Rusk including a 1972 address concerning President Richard Nixon's trip to China, Rusk's 1973 eulogy for Johnson, a 1974 graduation address to the 55th class of the Armed Forces Staff College, and a 1983 lecture entitled "The Constitution: Comity or Confrontation." The videotapes in the collection cover a broad range of subjects, but the bulk of the tapes date from 1983 to 1989 and roughly coincide with Rusk's retirement from teaching at the University of Georgia. The videotapes range in date from a copy of a March 1962 profile of Dean Rusk by WBTV-TV in Charlotte , North Carolina to the 1996 dedication of the University of Georgia 's Dean Rusk Hall. Included among the videotapes is a copy of the CBS News coverage of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Rusk's 1984 deposition in the Westmoreland v. CBS libel case, a fourteen-tape unedited interview with Dean Rusk conducted in 1985 by Edwin Newman, a thirty-minute documentary on Rusk produced by the University of Georgia in 1988 called "Conversations with Great Georgians: Dean Rusk," a multi-part series entitled "The United Nations: Issues of Peace and Conflict" that covers the 1989 Report of the Former Ambassadors to the United Nations, a three-part interview with Rusk conducted by Kenneth Harris for a BBC series entitled "The Twentieth Century Remembered," as well as several other television appearances and interviews that reflect back on Rusk's tenure as secretary of state during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and that touch on the topics of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, and the Cold War. Also included in the collection is a silent 16mm home movie from 1945 depicting then Colonel Rusk playing tennis at the palace of the viceroy (now the residence of the President of India) with friends Colonel Currie, Captain Swain, Lieutenant Plager, and other unidentified persons.
Over 3,000 audiovisual materials in the collection include one and two inch video, betacam, VHS, CDs, DVDs, cassette tapes, mini-cassette tapes, reel-to-reel, and Umatic tape. These formats document inaugurations, public appearances, speeches, debates, interviews, press conferences, campaign commercials, television news mentions, and Miller's appearances on the television shows Lawmakers (on Georgia Public Broadcasting) and The Georgia Gang (on WAGA in Atlanta). The audiovisual material is organized by format.
John James Flynt, Jr. Papers, Series IX. Audiovisual Materials includes one Umatic videocassette from 1978, four 16mm films including a film of Flynt with President Kennedy in 1962, and one quarter-inch open reel audio tape from 1966.