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Title: 8th Annual Bull Roast, Friday, June 9, 1989, Beaumont Hilton Hotel, "El Toro" Congressman Jack Brooks
Identifier: camh-dob-001651
Dates: 1989-06-09
Box: 2007-255/661
Folder: 0.6
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A program for a roast of Jack Brooks, including cartoons depicting Brooks as a matador. It includes the names of the roasters.

Title: Amendment to H.R. 6219, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-002395
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Elections
Box: 2007-255/349
Folder: 286.1
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks enclosed the proposed amendment with a letter he wrote to Peter Rodino. The amendment was intended to avoid penalizing states like Texas that had already ratified bilingual ballots.

Title: Appointment calendar, November 1963
Identifier: camh-dob-001006
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Democratic party (U.S.)
Dates: 1963-11
Box: 2007-255/746
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks's personal appointment calendar, notably indicating plans for President John F. Kennedy's tour of Texas, including those on November 22, 1963, when President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. On the following days, Brooks noted "JFK Body in repose," "JFK Body to Capitol," and "JFK Funeral".

Title: CBS Survey, January 10, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001734
Topic: Impeachment, Surveys
Dates: 1974-01-10
Box: 2007-255/302
Folder: 254.22
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Survey sent by CBS News to House members regarding their views on President Richard Nixon's potential impeachment and their sense of what their district thinks. Jack Brooks marks Inflation and the Oil Crisis as the two most important issues in his district at the time. He indicates that his district would be for impeachment, that impeachment would help his own re-election, and that his opinion of President Nixon has lowered. He does not answer whether he would vote for impeachment.

Title: Copy of letter from Jack Brooks to Lady Bird Johnson, August 3, 1967
Identifier: camh-dob-001569
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Contributor: Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
Topic: Trees, Care of
Dates: 1967-08-03
Box: 2007-255/43
Folder: General: Johnson '70
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Copy of a letter from Jack Brooks to Lady Bird Johnson regarding the trees on her property in Alabama.

Title: District survey draft, 1968
Identifier: camh-dob-001447
Topic: African Americans--Civil Rights, Gun control
Dates: 1968
Box: 2007-255/83
Folder: 66C.86
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A draft of a constituent survey commissioned by Jack Brooks during the 1968 election in order to better understand the needs of voters in the 9th district. Brooks's original district, the 2nd district, was redistricted into the 9th district in 1966 after the Supreme Court ruled in Wesbery v. Sanders that congressional districts had to be close to equal in population. Brooks lost 8 out of the 9 east Texas counties he originally represented in this redistricting. In the 1966 election in the 2nd district, Brooks ran unopposed and won. In the 1968 election in the new 9th district, he ran against Henry Charles Pressler, and won with 60.9% of the vote. The draft includes a question regarding gun control, which in a corresponding note, Brooks recommends removing and replacing with a question about race relations.

Title: Draft of introductory remarks delivered by Jack Brooks for Dolph Briscoe at the Texas AFL-CIO COPE convention, March 3, 1972
Identifier: camh-dob-001374
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Political Campaigns, Democratic party (U.S.)
Dates: 1972-03-03
Box: 2007-255/267
Folder: 33
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: During Dolph Briscoe's campaign for Governor of Texas, Jack Brooks introduced him at the Texas AFL-CIO convention. The speech is annotated by Brooks.

Title: Draft of wire from Jack Brooks to local newspapers in his former district, June 1, 1965
Identifier: camh-dob-001396
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Elections, Legislation
Dates: 1965-06-01
Box: 2007-255/129
Folder: 122.33
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks laments the loss of his former constituents, promising to continue to serve them as well as possible for the next year and a half.

Title: Edison Diamond Disc, Jack Brooks and Sam Rayburn [1954]
Identifier: camh-dob-002590
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Contributor: Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
Dates: 1954
Box: 2007-255/11
Folder: Press - Radio and TV Scripts
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Sides A and B of the Edison Diamond Disc which was used to record a radio interview between Jack Brooks and Speaker Sam Rayburn.

Title: Eligible Areas in Texas, attachment to Albert Rains letter, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-001082
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States. Congress. House, Legislation
Box: 2007-255/92
Folder: 77.8
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Attachment to Rains letter detailing Texas counties that would benefit from the proposed legislation. Handdrawn marks drawn next to counties in Brooks's district.

Title: Excerpt from Texas Monthly article, May 1976
Identifier: camh-dob-001213
Topic: United States. Congress. House, United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Dates: 1976-05
Box: 2007-255/364
Folder: 295.2
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: An excerpt from an article that ranks all twenty-two Texas Congresspeople from Best to Worst. Jack Brooks ranks eleventh, falling in the "Fair-to-Middlin'" category. The excerpt contains quotes from other Representatives about Brooks, both positive and negative. It describes his position as Chairman of the Government Operations Committee and his involvement in the Nixon impeachment as a member of the House Judiciary Committee.

Title: Fax from Mark White to Jack Brooks and Richard Crawford White, August 3, 1976
Identifier: camh-dob-001972
Creator: White, Mark, 1940-2017
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012, White, Richard Crawford, 1923-1998
Topic: Elections, Legislation
Dates: 1976-08-03
Box: 2007-255/370
Folder: 301.8
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The fax was sent from Texas Secretary of State Mark White to Representatives Richard Crawford White and Jack Brooks. It comments on the success of voter registration by mail in Texas. White proposed an amendment to the Voter Registration Act that would make Texas exempt from the Act, while receiving federal funds for their own program. The Act was intended to create a federally mandated system that would allow voters to register by mail. Texas already had a similiar program in place at the time.

Title: Fax from Mark White to Jack Brooks, August 3, 1976
Identifier: camh-dob-001974
Creator: White, Mark, 1940-2017
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Elections, Legislation
Dates: 1976-08-03
Box: 2007-255/370
Folder: 301.8
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Texas Secretary of State Mark White provides a draft of the wording of the amendments he proposes regarding the Voter Registration Act. White wished to exempt states that already had systems in place to allow voters to register by mail, while receiving federal funds for their own program. The Act was intended to create a federally mandated system that would allow voters to register by mail.

Title: First Annual Johnson-Rayburn Dinner, March 31, 1989, Houston, Texas
Identifier: camh-dob-001648
Topic: Democratic party (U.S.)
Dates: 1989-03-31
Box: 2007-255/661
Folder: 0.6
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The program for the First Annual Johnson-Rayburn Dinner honoring Jack Brooks. It features short biographies of Lyndon Johnson, Sam Rayburn, Jack Brooks, and guest speaker Joe Biden. This program is attached to Brooks's thank you speech for being honored with the award [camh-dob-001647]. The annual award tradition continues today as the Johnson-Rayburn-Richards Dinner honoring the late Ann Richards in addition to Johnson and Rayburn.

Title: Form letter from Jack Brooks to constituents, undated [1970]
Identifier: camh-dob-001776
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Vietnam War (1961-1975)
Dates: 1970
Box: 2007-255/216
Folder: 191.17
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A standard letter sent by Jack Brooks to constituents who wrote to his office to express their disapproval with the expansion of the Vietnam War into other regions of Southeast Asia including Cambodia.

Title: Handwritten draft remarks, undated [September 1963]
Identifier: camh-dob-001311
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Political Campaigns
Dates: 1963-09
Box: 2007-255/139
Folder: LBJ Visit 9-28+29-63
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Handwritten draft of introductory remarks delivered by Jack Brooks when Vice President Lyndon Johnson and Second Lady Lady Bird Johnson visited the South Texas State Fairgrounds. This was the first visit by a sitting Vice President to the Second Congressional District of Texas.

Title: Handwritten note from Charles Turco to Jack Brooks, June 9, 1989
Identifier: camh-dob-001653
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Speeches, Friendship
Dates: 1989-06-09
Box: 2007-255/661
Folder: 0.6
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A note from Brooks's friend Charles Turco attached to a copy of a speech delivered at a roast of Brooks [camh-dob-001652].

Title: Handwritten notes by Congressman Jack Brooks for his letter to Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, undated [approximately September 1955]
Identifier: camh-dob-001677
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Dams, Democratic party (U.S.)
Dates: 1955-09
Box: 2007-255/28
Folder: 24.14
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Handwritten notes attached to Brooks's September 10, 1955 typed letter to Senator Lyndon B. Johnson. The notes are an outline for the final draft of the letter and indicate Johnson is in Austin, Texas. At the time, Johnson was recovering from a heart attack.

Title: House Judiciary Committee begins probe of Waco standoff, APril 28, 1993
Identifier: camh-dob-001000
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1993-04-28
Box: 2007-255/746
Folder: 12
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: News release summarizing the beginning of the House Judiciary Committee hearing, chaired by Jack Brooks, on the Waco Standoff, featuring quotes from Attorney General Janet Reno, ATF Director Stephen E. Higgins, FBI Director William S. Sessions, and Chairman Jack Brooks.

Title: Interview transcript, KFDM-TV, undated [September 1963]
Identifier: camh-dob-001312
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Contributor: Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 1908-1973
Topic: Legislation, Foreign affairs
Dates: 1963-09
Box: 2007-255/139
Folder: LBJ Visit 9-28+29-63
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A transcript, with handwritten edits, of a radio interview conducted by Jack Brooks during Vice President Lyndon Johnson's visit to the Second Congressional District of Texas. Brooks asks Johnson about foreign allies, tax cut legislation, and Johnson's long political career.

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