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Title: Letter from a Beaumont KFDM television and radio station executive to Jack Brooks, January 18, 1960
Identifier: camh-dob-001698
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Radio broadcasting, Political Campaigns
Dates: 1960-01-18
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A letter from C.B. Locke informing Jack Brooks of potential issues they might encounter regarding his regular KFDM reports. According to Section 315 of the Communications Act and the latest interpretation of the F.C.C., stations must provide equal time for all candidates for political office.

Title: Letter from a reporter to Jack Brooks, October 9, [1970]
Identifier: camh-dob-001763
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, School integration
Dates: 1970-10-09
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A letter from Grace Foote of the Port Arthur News asking Jack Brooks to answer questions for the newspaper's "Box 7-8-9" feature. Foote asks about the investigation of Justice William O. Douglas and school integration.

Title: Letter from KPRC Radio Company to Jack Brooks, November 12, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-002036
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States. Congress. House, Television programs
Dates: 1973-11-12
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: George Nelson, from the KPRC Radio Company in Houston, writes to Jack Brooks regarding Brooks's interest in providing live television coverage of congressional sessions. Brooks would lead a pilot program in 1977, using House security cameras to broadcast floor proceedings internally to other Members of the House. Eventually, House proceedings were broadcast nationally on C-SPAN, which was created in 1979.

Title: Letter from local TV and radio executive to Jack Brooks, May 30, 1960
Identifier: camh-dob-001695
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Television programs, Political Campaigns
Dates: 1960-05-30
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: C.B. Locke alerts Jack Brooks of temporary cessation to his television broadcasts in light of Brooks's upcoming race against Fred Neumann, and concerns about falling afoul of Section 315 of the Communications Act (The Equal Time Rule).

Title: Letter from Max Kampelman to Jack Brooks, October 17, 1967
Identifier: camh-dob-002066
Creator: Kampelman, Max M., 1920-2013
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Light bulbs, Television programs
Dates: 1967-10-17
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Max Kampelman, the moderator of Washington Week in Review, regarding Kampelman's opening remarks on the program of Brooks's lightbulb investigation.