Lawrence W. Wetherby oral history project, 1978-1984.

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Lawrence W. Wetherby oral history project, 1978-1984.

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Wetherby and his associates discuss his family history, Louisville politics in the 1930s and 1940s, the Legislative Research Commission, the State Democratic Central Committee, political patronage, the gubernatorial campaign of 1951, road building, tourism, governmental reorganization, economic growth, mental health care improvements, child welfare reform, conservation, education reform, state fairground improvements, the Minimum Foundation Act of 1954, school desegregation, Kentucky State College, election reform, the Registration and Purgation Election Act, the gubernatorial campaign of 1955, and Wetherby's United States senatorial campaign of 1956. People discussed include Thomas Rhea, Mickey Brennan, Neville Miller, Earle C. Clements, A. B. "Happy" Chandler, William H. May, Harry Lee Waterfield, Adron Doran, Bert T. Combs, Doc Beauchamp, Eugene Siler, Louis Cox, William Curlin, Keen Johnson, John Y. Brown, Sr., John Watts, Henry Ward, and Jess Lindsey.

49 sound cassettes (34 hr., 30 min.) : analog, stereo.

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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