Year

1954-09-28

Video Details

3:13; black and white; sound and silent; aa221; Series S828

Description

This short, black and white film with some sound shows the Florida Cracker Politics Awards ceremony at the Kiwanis Club in Coral Gables on September 28, 1954. The film shows R.A Gray; Spessard Holland; Doyle E. Carlton, Sr.; Fuller Warren; B. K. Roberts who speaks about the death of Governor Dan McCarty; Ted David; Sherman N. Smith; Perry E. Murray; Farris Bryant; J. Edwin Larson and Doyle E. Carlton, Sr.; Doyle E. Carlton, Jr.; Bill Pearce; Bunn Gautier; and LeRoy Collins who speaks about malapportionment among other Florida politicians.

Corporate Creator

Florida Development Commission

Corporate Subject

Kiwanis Club (Coral Gables, Fla.)

Geographic Subject

Florida
Coral Gables
Miami-Dade County

Coverage

Postwar Florida (1945-1968)

Personal Subject

Bryant, Farris (Cecil Farris), 1914-2002
Carlton, Doyle Elam, Jr., 1922-2003
Carlton, Doyle Elam, Sr., 1885-1972
Collins, LeRoy (Thomas LeRoy), 1909-1991
Gautier, Bunn (Redmond Bunn), Jr., 1909-1989
Holland, Spessard L. (Spessard Lindsey), 1892-1971
Murray, Perry Earl, 1899-1955
Pearce, Bill (Basil Charles), 1894-1968
Smith, Sherman N., 1914-1998
David, Ted (Thomas Edward), 1920-1972
Roberts, B. K. (Bonnie Kaslow), 1907-1999
Warren, Fuller, 1905-1973

Subject

Politics and government--Awards
Politics and government
Politicians