Title: Richmond Flowers /
Publisher: [s.n,
Year: 1966
Subjects: Flowers, Richmond,; Campaign promises.; Advertising, Political United States; Politicians United States Interviews; Advertising; Fund raising United States; Campaign management.; Alabama Politics and government; Knoxville (Tenn.); Tuscaloosa (Ala.); United States Politics and government
Abstract: Campaign spot produced for state politicians, Richmond Flowers, John J. Hooker and Ralph Rogers. Richmond Flowers attended the University of Alabama Law School and served under General Douglas MacArthur's command during WWII. Flowers was elected to the Alabama State Senate in 1954 and the Attorney General's office in 1962. In 1965, during the Civil Rights era, he prosecuted Collie Leroy, a member of the Ku Klux Klan suspected in the murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo. Leroy was acquitted by an all white jury. This was one of several court cases that pitted Flowers against Alabama Governor George Wallace's political machine as well as the state's conservative white voters.