Oral history interview with Ferrel Guillory, December 11, 1973
Subtitle: interview A-0123, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: De Vries, Walter, interviewer; Bass, Jack, interviewer; Southern Oral History Program; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Journalists; Attitudes; Race relations; Politics and government; Republican Party (N.C.); Democratic Party (N.C.)
Other titles: Interview A-0123, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Ferrel Guillory, December 11, 1973; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Political journalist Ferrel Guillory describes the state of party politics in North Carolina. This interview has two principal foci. The first is the political character -- and shortcomings -- of Republican governor Jim Holshouser. Guillory describes Holshouser as essentially moderate, but his moderation seems in part due to the fact that the governor seems to focus on the minutiae of government operation rather than ideology. The second is the shockwaves GOP victories in 1972 sent through the Democratic Party and Democrats' largely unsuccessful efforts to find direction.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on November 28, 2007).

Interview participants: Ferrel Guillory, interviewee; Jack Bass, interviewer; Walter De Vries,interviewer.

Duration: 01:42:51.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.

Text encoded by Mike Millner.  Sound recordings digitized by Steve Weiss and Aaron Smithers.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series A, Southern politics, interview A-0123, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 39 p.

Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.

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