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Title: Letter from Dolph Briscoe to Jack Brooks, March 13, 1964
Identifier: camh-dob-001131
Creator: Briscoe, Dolph
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Screwworm--Control
Dates: 1964-03-13
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A personal letter from Dolph Briscoe, Jr. thanking Jack Brooks for his and Charlotte Brooks's hospitality during Dolph and Janey Briscoe's recent trip to Washington, D.C. He says his wife is still thrilled to have visited with President Lyndon B. Johnson and insists on bringing her framed Presidential coin and picture with the President everywhere they go. Briscoe also mentions a meeting about the Screwworm Program in Mexico.

Title: Letter from Jack Brooks to a Mexican business official, July 27, 1966
Identifier: camh-dob-001133
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Screwworm--Control
Dates: 1966-07-27
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks sends Octavio Ochoa Ochoa, President of Confederacion Nacional Ganadera of Mexico, a pen used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to sign H.R. 14888. This legislation authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate in screwworm eradication with Mexico. Brooks mentions that their mutual friend, Dolph Briscoe, Jr., was present at the signing.

Title: Remarks of Congressman Jack Brooks, Governor's conference on handicapped individuals, Galveston, Texas, Saturday, September 23, 1978
Identifier: camh-dob-001550
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, People with disabilities
Dates: 1978-09-23
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks's speech, with handwritten edits, at Governor Dolph Briscoe's Conference on Handicapped Individuals. The conference followed Briscoe's issuance of Executive Order No. 38, which created the Committee on Problems of the Handicapped. In his speech, Brooks highlights legislation in recent years that provide services and legal protections for handicapped individuals, including the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Education of All Handicapped Children Act of 1975. He describes additional amendments and bills to support handicapped individuals and promises to continue supporting such legislation.