The Last Good Republican by Buck Jones

Author:Buck Jones [Jones, Buck]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Last Good Republican
Publisher: Turbigo Media LLC
Published: 2022-01-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11 — Prologue

A Universal-International Newsreel from the National Archives, dated October 1962:

[Banner title: Changing Times in American Deep South narrated by male voice-over as music swells to black and white film image.]

“Changing Times in American Deep South as the fall election season sees a new generation of leaders rise to the challenge in the face of increasing racial and civil rights tensions...[video of a small town in the South showing whites and blacks going about their day]... in South Carolina, Republican candidate for governor Carter Ridge is campaigning for every citizen’s vote, promising to usher in “The Good Life”...[video of Ridge exiting from his dark-colored Citroën, waving to a throng of supporters, as he wades into the crowd, shaking hands and smiling. Cut to next scene of he and Margot O’Neill walking up to a stage at a large outdoor fair, with Ridge saying —‘We need to move forward, past the divisions of the past, and towards the good life of freedom, of happiness, and of prosperity for all’]...voiceover of announcer as video shows Ridge and O’Neill smiling and waving, and bending to pick up a flower bouquet from a young white child at the fair, “Mr. Ridge, a successful businessman and philanthropist, is the sunny, smiling face of the New South and the hopes of a new generation of Americans, both Negro and white”... music changes for the next segment of newsreel and video cuts.

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