II. Audiovisual Materials, 1956-1960
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- 8 item(s)
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Thomas M. Hayes Collection of Georgia Republican Party Campaign Audiovisual Collection, Series II. Audiovisual Materials consists of seven 16mm films and one quarter-inch open reel audio tape. The films include commercially produced campaign advertisements and 16mm news film footage of a 1960 press conference conducted by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Democratic Representative from New York , in which he announces his campaign platform. The collection also includes an audiotape of Walter Reuther introducing John F. Kennedy at a political rally in Harlem ( New York City ). The filmed campaign advertisements include two one-minute television commercials for the 1956 presidential campaign comparing Democrats Harry S. Truman, Adlai Stevenson (the Democratic nominee for president), and Estes Kefauver (the Democratic nominee for vice president) with the Republican nominee for president and incumbent, Dwight D. Eisenhower; three twenty- to thirty-second television commercials of President Eisenhower urging voters to vote for Republican candidates in the 1956 Congressional elections; one twenty-second commercial for 1960 Presidential campaign featuring Republican nominees for president and vice president Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.; a three-minute paid television advertisement for Richard Nixon for vice president, created by the National Republican Senatorial Committee; two versions of a Richard Nixon for vice president campaign commercial addressing the spread of communism.
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Reference copies of the audiovisual recordings are available upon request. Research requests will be filled as soon as possible and will be dependent upon the condition of the recordings.
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- Before material from collections at the Richard B. Russell Library may be quoted in print, or otherwise reproduced, in whole or in part, in any publication, permission must be obtained from (1) the owner of the physical property, and (2) the holder of the copyright. It is the particular responsibility of the researcher to obtain both sets of permission. Persons wishing to quote from materials in the Russell Library collection should consult the Director. Reproduction of any item must contain a complete citation to the original.