Governor Spiro T. Agnew's public hearing in Prince George's County, MD, and press conferences, January 1968
- Date
1968-01-01
- Summary
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Track 1: Governor Spiro T. Agnew presides over an informal public hearing, January 1968. The hearing was to determine if Mrs. Alta Bell, a Republican member of the Board of Registry, was wrongfully terminated. Track 2: Governor Spiro T. Agnew also holds a press conference to speak on topics such as health programs, judgeship nominations, a new penal institution, the state budget, and he states that he would not accept a Vice Presidential nomination, January 9, 1968. In addition, Governor Spiro T. Agnew states his position on the Draft Rockefeller Movement, a movement to persuade Governor Nelson Rockefeller to run for President of the United States. Lastly, multiple news broadcasts address Governor Spiro T. Agnew's statements about Baltimore City's budget, mental health care, adding more African Americans to the court system, an alcohol tax increase, budget cuts to the state college, and health code violations at the University of Maryland.
- Contributor
Agnew, Spiro T., 1918-1996
- Subjects
Government, Law, Politics; Governors -- Maryland -- History -- Sources
- Locations
North America; United States; Maryland
- Collection
Politics and Civic Life
- Unit
Special Collections and University Archives
- Rights Statement
- In Copyright
- Terms of Use
Access is restricted to patrons at the University of Maryland.
- Physical Description
01:47:32 hh:mm:ss; 1/4" open reel tape
- Notes
Spiro T. Agnew papers
Accession 74-10, Series 5, Subseries 1, Box 1
A guide to the full collection of Spiro T. Agnew papers is available in our archival collections: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1744.
Access
Access condition: campus-only.
- Other Identifiers
Fedora 2 PID: umd:729124; Handle Identifier: hdl:1903.1/42277; Filename: histmss-063164
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