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Title: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission decision regarding unlawful employment practices at the Neches station of Gulf States Utilities, August 8, 1968
Identifier: camh-dob-001210
Topic: Civil Rights, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1968-08-08
Box: 2007-255/168
Folder: 150.28
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A copy of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) decision regarding unlawful employment practices under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 at the Neches Station of Gulf States Utilities. The document lists the Charging Parties vs. Gulf States Utilities Company, Port Neches, TX. A summary of the charge indicates that the Neches station continues to segregate its employees and "employs testing procedures that discriminate against Negroes in violation of Section 703 (a) (1) and (2) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964." The Neches station of Gulf State Utilities was in Port Neches, Jefferson County, which was part of Brooks's district.

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: Letter from Jack Brooks to a constituent, June 12, 1961
Identifier: camh-dob-001494
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Governmental Investigations, Organized crime
Dates: 1961-06-12
Box: 2007-255/96
Folder: Judiciary Committee Legislation, Jan.-June 1961
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks replies to constituent Wendell Holloway regarding Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's investigation of organized crime in Beaumont.

Title: Letter from the Director of Compliance for the Equal Employment Opportunity to the Director of Industrial Relations for Gulf State Utilities Company, Neches station, August 24, 1968
Identifier: camh-dob-001209
Topic: Civil Rights, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1968-08-24
Box: 2007-255/168
Folder: 150.28
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Copy of a letter from Robert L. Randolph, Director of Compliance for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to William E. Heaner, Jr., Director of Industrial Relations at the Neches Station branch of Gulf State Utilities. The letter informs them that the EEOC has reasonable cause to believe that they have engaged in unlawful employment practices under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. A copy of the Commission Decision is enclosed with the letter [camh-dob-001210]. Randolph informs Heaner that a conciliator will contact the parties to discuss means of correcting the discrimination and avoiding it in the future. The Neches Station of Gulf State Utilities was in Port Neches, Jefferson County, which was part of Brooks's district.

Title: Statement of Congressman Jack Brooks, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, April 20, 1993
Identifier: camh-dob-001001
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1993-04-20
Box: 2007-255/746
Folder: 12
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: News release from Jack Brooks, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, announcing a full committee hearing regarding the Waco Standoff. Brooks notes that a full committee hearing is an extraordinary occurrence for the Judiciary Committee, but that the events in Waco encompassed matters well beyond the jurisdiction of a single subcommittee.

Title: Statement of Judiciary Committee Chairman Jack Brooks re: the end of the Waco standoff, Monday, April 19, 1993
Identifier: camh-dob-001002
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1993-04-19
Box: 2007-255/746
Folder: 12
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks's statement about the Department of Justice keeping the Judiciary Committee updated regarding the "cult standoff" in Waco, Texas, which had culminated that day, with the intention to work with the Department and the Administration to understand how and why the situation ended the way it did.

Title: Time interview transcript with Jack Brooks about the Department of Justice and the INSLAW investigation
Identifier: camh-dob-001003
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Governmental Investigations
Box: 2007-255/746
Folder: 13
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks answers whether or not he believed the Judiciary Committee was stonewalled by the Department of Justice while it conducted the INSLAW investigation, and his view on the Office of Professional Responsibility and the function it serves.