News broadcasts on Governor Spiro T. Agnew's racial slurs during his campaign in Hawaii, November 1968
- Date
1968-11
- Summary
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Multiple news broadcasts covering Governor Spiro T. Agnew's use of racial slurs in his remarks, November 1968. Governor Spiro T. Agnew claimed that he was unaware of such semantics and was working to improve his understanding. These reports were given by numerous reporters including CBS' Bruce Morton and Washington correspondent James J. Kilpatrick. In addition, Governor Spiro T. Agnew gives an apologetic speech for any offense listeners may have taken upon hearing the racial slurs.
- Contributor
Agnew, Spiro T., 1918-1996
- Subjects
Government, Law, Politics; Governors -- Maryland -- History -- Sources
- Locations
North America; United States
- 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
00:06:38 hh:mm:ss; 1/4" open reel tape
- Notes
Spiro T. Agnew papers
Accession 74-10, Series 5, Subseries 1, Box 3
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:729094; Handle Identifier: hdl:1903.1/42264; Filename: histmss-064553
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