Brooks Family; "Brooks Family"

  • Title card: The following is a political advertisement paid for by the committee to re-elect Jack Brooks
  • Introduction by reporter Betty Groebli
  • Brooks' garden
  • Entering Brooks home; Meeting wife Charlotte Collins Brooks
  • Meeting children Jeb and Kate
  • Model of viking ship
  • One-on-one interview with Charlotte Brooks
  • How Charlotte met Brooks while working for Congressman Robert R. Casey
  • Mentions Sam Rayburn and Dolph Briscoe attending her first date with Jack Brooks
  • Brooks' time at home
  • Social life
  • Membership in Congressional Club
  • Membership in International Club
  • Working in Jack Brooks' office
  • Title card: Charlotte Brooks
  • Jack Brooks' time with children
  • Building a clubhouse with son Jeb
  • Daughter Kate going to office with father
  • Visiting Texas
  • Title card: Betty Groebli
  • On children's awareness of Brooks' public position
  • On being the wife of a congressman
  • On Jeb and Kate
  • Introduction of daughter Kimberly Grace; Interview with Jack and Charlotte Brooks
  • On parental roles (waking up with baby, changing diapers)
  • On discipline
  • On helping with homework
  • Jack Brooks' education and military history; G.I. Bill
  • Title card: Congressman Jack Brooks
  • On amnesty for citizens who avoided the draft
  • On relaxing
  • Brooks shows his basement workshop, where he fixes clocks
  • Mentions getting a book from the Library of Congress to find out how to fix a clock
  • On building a clubhouse with son Jeb
  • Showing restored clock
  • Closing by Groebli
  • Title card: The preceding was a political advertisement paid for by the committee to re-elect Jack Brooks