Osgood Williams oral history interview, 1988 Apr. 18 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:The collection consists of an oral history interview with Osgood Williams on April 18, 1988 in which he discusses memories of Richard Russell as governor; senate race; 1936 re-election campaign; Eugene Talmadge; Huey Long; Ellis Arnall; Cocking affair; county unit system; personal background; Ordinary Court; Roy Harris; Tom Murphy; Ralph McGill; Jim Gillis; Jimmy Carmichael; Marvin Griffin; three-governor controversy; George B. Hamilton; Governor E.D. Rivers; Tom Watson; "wool hat" boys; Herman Talmadge; Arnall campaign; Carmichael campaign; Bob Troutman; Claude Pittman; Primus King case; 1950 governor's race; Miles Walker Lewis; Greene County; William Wyatt; Unified Farm Program; Adlai Stevensen; John F. Kennedy; Estes Kefauver; Henry Wallace; Harry Truman; and Morris Abram