Search results

Title: Annotated draft of press release, September 23, 1964
Identifier: camh-dob-001811
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1964-09-23
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Draft of a press release regarding a proposal by House Republicans and members of the Southern Bloc to create a special subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee to investigate the Justice Department. The Teamsters union, including its leader James R. Hoffa, pressed for such an investigation.

Title: Handwritten draft of memo regarding subcommittee investigation, September 1, 1964
Identifier: camh-dob-001818
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1964-09-01
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The draft, written by Jack Brooks, announces the findings of an ad hoc subcommittee regarding allegations by the Teamsters Union and leader James R. Hoffa against the Justice Department. After hearing testimony, the subcommittee determined that the allegations by the Teamsters Union had no basis in fact. Brooks was a member of this five member subcommittee, as well as the official, ten member subcommittee that later replaced it.

Title: Handwritten notes regarding goals of the subcomittee investigating James Hoffa allegations, [1964]
Identifier: camh-dob-001812
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1964
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Notes written in Jack Brooks's handwriting discussing a Judiciary subcommittee tasked with investigating the Justice Department. The notes assert that the subcommittee was created because of a pressure campaign by the Teamsters Union, led by James R. Hoffa. The notes indicate that Brooks supported a motion excluding pending court cases from the investigation. That motion was defeated by one vote during the committee meeting.

Title: Judiciary Committee directory with handwritten annotations, September 22, 1964
Identifier: camh-dob-001813
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1964-09-22
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks's annotated pamphlet features a tally of the Judiciary Committee's votes regarding the resolution to appoint an official subcommittee to investigate James R. Hoffa's allegations against the Justice Department. Brooks was a member of an ad hoc, five member subcommittee originally tasked with investigating the matter as well as the official, ten member subcommittee that replaced it.

Title: Judiciary Committee directory with handwritten annotations, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-001816
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Governmental Investigations
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The pamphlet contains a tally of the Judiciary Committee's votes regarding a resolution on James R. Hoffa's allegations against the Justice Department.

Title: Staff note, October 16, 1964
Identifier: camh-dob-001810
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1964-10-16
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A note listing Jack Brooks as one of the ten members appointed to a new subcomittee tasked investigating James R. Hoffa's allegations against the Justice Department. Brooks had also been part of an ad hoc, five member subcommittee originally tasked with investigating the matter.