Text for a speech given by Barbara C. Jordan at Northside High School in Memphis, Tennessee, about African Americans and the "American Dream."

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Cotton Bowl festivities which will have everything except cotton.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of sheriff deputies who are searching for the man who stabbed to death a Continental Trailways bus driver near New Boston.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of three Texas girls are among the 20 are hoping to be crowned the 1974 Maid of Cotton at Memphis, Tennessee.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of three Texas girls who are among 20 are hoping to be crowned the 1974 Maid of Cotton in Memphis, Tennessee.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

A letter written to Mr. and Mrs. Carswell [T. N. Carswell and Byrdie Carswell] from Mrs. Julie McLeod, Memphis, Tennessee, dated December 31, 1969. McLeod expresses her appreciation for the lovely letter and her hope that Mrs. Carswell is better. She requests that Carswell please find any small memento that they both have had since the time she has known him and to mail it to her. She discusses her desire to move back to Texas advising that she has applied for a transfer after having worked for the Treasury Department for thirty years, that she still misses Orville and that Mark is at home off-and-on.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Letter from Raymond E. Blair to Harris Leon Kempner discussing serving as an advisor for the National Cotton Council of America.

Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to Raymond E. Blair discussing turning down to position of being an advisor for the National Cotton council of America due to not being able to attend meetings.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Judy Hill, a sophomore speech major at TCU, winning the new Maid of Cotton in Memphis, Tennessee.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Judy Hill, a sophomore speech major at TCU, winning the new Maid of Cotton in Memphis, Tennessee against 19 other contestants from 11 cotton-belt states.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Lawrence D. Bell High School Blue Raider Band working to raise $4400 needed to accept an invitation to play at the Cotton Carnival in Memphis, Tennessee; the award-winning band, which played at Governor Connally's inauguration is currently chopping and selling wood to raise the needed funds.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Lawrence D. Bell High School Blue Raider Band working to raise $4400 needed to accept an invitation to play at the Cotton Carnival in Memphis, Tennessee; the award-winning band, which played at Governor Connally's inauguration is currently chopping and selling wood to raise the needed funds.

Letter from Harris L. Kempner to E. R. Cook asking him to show Timmy Thompson around Memphis, as Timmy has just returned from the army.

Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Hugo Dixon discussing home movies featuring Hugo and Margaret in Paris. Harris also encourages Hugo to meet with E. R. Thompson Jr. and introduce him to some of Hugo's employees.