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Title: Declaration of Democratic Support, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-001361
Topic: Democratic party (U.S.), Political Campaigns
Box: 2007-255/92
Folder: 77.39
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Copy of unsigned declaration of support from Jefferson County Democrats sent to John Connally.

Title: Joint Declaration of Livestock Producers of Mexico and the United States, June 11, 1965
Identifier: camh-dob-001409
Topic: Cattle, Screwworm--Control
Dates: 1965-06-11
Box: 2007-255/129
Folder: 123.14
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The declaration discusses Mexico and the United States's joint commitment to eradicate screwworms.

Title: News Release announcing continued work on the McGee Bend Dam, November 9, 1956
Identifier: camh-dob-001045
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Dams
Dates: 1956-11-09
Box: 2007-255/27
Folder: 23.8
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A press release related to the building of the McGee Bend Dam with a reference to opposition from Ernest L. Kurth.

Title: News Release announcing Lyndon B. Johnson's appearance on Jack Brooks's TV Report to the Second District of Texas, April 4, 1956
Identifier: camh-dob-001044
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Political Campaigns, United States. Congress
Dates: 1956-04-04
Box: 2007-255/27
Folder: 23.7
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A press release announcing Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson's appearance on Jack Brooks's TV report to discuss his health, congressional business, and his candidacy for President.

Title: News release draft regarding recommendations for further improvements to the Sabine-Neches waterway, September 27, 1953
Identifier: camh-dob-001452
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Intracoastal waterways
Dates: 1953-09-27
Box: 2007-255/5
Folder: Sabine Neches Waterway, Dec 52 Thru Sept 53
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: An annotated copy of a news release announcing that the Army Engineers submitted a report to Congress recommending further improvements, totalling $6,875,000, to the Sabine-Neches waterway. The waterway linked the quickly growing industrial cities of Beaumont, Orange, and Port Arthur with intercoastal trade.

Title: News release draft regarding the Sabine-Neches waterway, May 17, 1953
Identifier: camh-dob-001451
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Intracoastal waterways
Dates: 1953-05-17
Box: 2007-255/5
Folder: Sabine Neches Waterway, Dec 52 Thru Sept 53
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: An annotated copy of a news release announcing Congressional approval of $695,000 in federal funds in order to begin work on the Sabine-Neches intracoastal canal. Jack Brooks and a delegation of his constituents testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee regarding the need to improve the canal, which linked quickly growing industrial cities in his district, Beaumont, Orange, and Port Arthur, with intracoastal trade.

Title: News release, January 24, 1972
Identifier: camh-dob-002017
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Intracoastal waterways
Dates: 1972-01-24
Box: 2007-255/263
Folder: 310.3
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A news release from Jack Brooks's office announcing the appropriations for his district in the proposed 1973 budget.

Title: News release, July 16, 1963
Identifier: camh-dob-002174
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Dams, Legislation
Dates: 1963-07-16
Box: 2007-255/121
Folder: Projects--88th Congress, Sam Rayburn, 1963
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Release announcing that Jack Brooks is introducing legislation to rename the McGee Bend Dam the Sam Rayburn Dam to honor the late Speaker of the House.

Title: News release, July 26, 1971
Identifier: camh-dob-002022
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Public works, Legislation
Dates: 1971-07-26
Box: 2007-255/263
Folder: 310.3
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: News release from Jack Brooks announcing the approval of $26,965,000 in funding for projects in his district.

Title: News release, June 3, 1969
Identifier: camh-dob-002402
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States. Congress. House
Dates: 1969-06-03
Box: 2007-255/183
Folder: 167.45
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: An announcement from Jack Brooks's office that Nicholas V. Lampson of Beaumont and Edwin Dwaine Machann of Nederland are two of the three interns selected for his summer internship program. Nick Lampson eventually represented Brooks's congressional district.

Title: News release regarding Texas City disaster relief legislation, August 2, 1955
Identifier: camh-dob-001450
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Federal aid, Industrial accidents
Dates: 1955-08-02
Box: 2007-255/5
Folder: 113.18
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks announces the passage of a bill to provide financial relief for those affected by the Texas City disaster. The disaster was the deadliest industrial accident in United States history. The Senate drafted legislation to provide compensation for the victims in 1955 after the Supreme Court ruled against a class action lawsuit brought on their behalf. Brooks worked to make the victims the beneficiaries of the legislation, rather than insurance companies and large corporations.

Title: Press release draft, [January 23, 1973]
Identifier: camh-dob-002386
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Grief
Dates: 1973-01-23
Box: 2007-255/271
Folder: 235.16
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Draft press release eulogizing former President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Title: Press release from Jack Brooks and Gaston Wilder, September 21, 1963
Identifier: camh-dob-001527
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012, Wilder, Gaston
Topic: Democratic party (U.S.)
Dates: 1963-09-21
Box: 2007-255/139
Folder: LBJ Visit 9-28+29-63
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A press release with handwritten notes and edits announcing Lady Bird Johnson will accompany her husband on his trip to the 2nd Congressional District of Texas. The press release notes that Lady Bird is a native of East Texas. It highlights her education and professional background, the origins of her nickname, and her ongoing activities as "a competent businesswoman."

Title: Press release from Jack Brooks and Gaston Wilder, undated [approximately September 1963]
Identifier: camh-dob-001526
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012, Wilder, Gaston
Topic: Democratic party (U.S.)
Dates: 1963-09
Box: 2007-255/139
Folder: LBJ Visit 9-28+29-63
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A press release with handwritten notes and edits announcing Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's upcoming "personal visit" to Jefferson County and Southeast Texas on September 28, 1963. Brooks was hoped that Vice President Johnson would visit his family farm in Jasper.

Title: Released to Ned Curran 3-6-1965 at 10:30 A.M. by special interview
Identifier: camh-dob-001309
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: African Americans--Civil Rights, Legislation
Dates: 1965-03-26
Box: 2007-255/139
Folder: 54
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A statement from Jack Brooks regarding his views on the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Brooks reiterates his belief in the right to vote.

Title: Remarks of Congressman Jack Brooks, Announcement: Reelection, December 1993
Identifier: camh-dob-000997
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Political Campaigns, Democratic party (U.S.)
Dates: 1993-12
Box: 2007-255/746
Folder: 10
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks's news release announcing his candidacy for reelection to the United States House of Representatives. He ultimately lost to his Republican opponent, Steve Stockman, ending his 42-year career in the House of Representatives.

Title: Statement by Congressman Jack Brooks on failure of house to override veto of public works appropriation, September 2, 1959
Identifier: camh-dob-001461
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Dams
Dates: 1959-09-02
Box: 2007-255/5
Folder: Lake Sabine, Jan 1958 to
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A draft of a statement submitted to the press regarding the failure of the House of override President Dwight Eisenhower's veto of the Public Works Appropriation bill, which contained the funds for the McGee Bend Dam and the Sabine-Neches Waterway.

Title: Statement by Congressman Jack Brooks regarding Eisenhower veto of Public Works Appropriation Bill, August 28, 1959
Identifier: camh-dob-001460
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Dams
Dates: 1959-08-28
Box: 2007-255/5
Folder: Lake Sabine, Jan 1958 to
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks comments on President Dwight Eisenhower's veto of the Public Works Appropriation bill, which included the funds needed to create the McGee Bend Dam and improve the Sabine-Neches waterway. Brooks calls Eisenhower's decision "callous" in light of the need to harness natural resources to defend America against communism.

Title: Statement by Jack Brooks, August 2, 1976
Identifier: camh-dob-001214
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States. Congress. House, Legislation
Dates: 1976-08-02
Box: 2007-255/364
Folder: 295.6
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks's statement about Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, mailed to Walter Shapiro, who was writing an article about Jordan for the October 1976 edition of Texas Monthly magazine [camh-dob-001215]. Brooks says that while the media likes to focus on her gender and race, he finds those details "relatively unimportant when assessing her importance as a legislator." Brooks believes that "Miss Jordan is able to recognize what is important in legislation rather than responding to slogans or rhetoric and refusing to waste her efforts on unimportant minutia."

Title: Statement from Jack Brooks regarding amendment to the Voting Rights Act extension, 1975
Identifier: camh-dob-001164
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Civil Rights
Dates: 1975
Box: 2007-255/349
Folder: 286.1
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks explains an amendment he proposed to the Voting Rights Act extension in order to avoid penalizing states that had already ratified bilingual ballots, such as Texas.

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