This is a
fascinating archive that must be seen entirely, at leisure (which you will have, given that today is Labor Day)
The Mike Wallace InterviewStandouts:
1. The one-man PHILIP MORRIS commercial, complete with smoking!
2. The fact that Wallace's voice has not aged in 50 years, in spite of all the smoking. It's uncanny.
3. Modern politicians cannot dissemble and equivicate and red-herring with even the fraction of the ease that Eastland does here. No wonder this man was the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
At one point, he argues, almost convincingly, that the Reconstruction governments supported by freedmen voters instituted all of the major planks of segregation, seperate schools and poll taxes and all, entirely on their own. For racial harmony.
4. That Eastland even felt the need to equivicate.
5. "There's not a Ku Klux Klan chapter in the state of Mississippi"
I have more impressions, but I will share them only if this generates a small interest.
