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Honorable Senator. Permit me please to compliment you on the boldness you are
showing, and to say that you are proving yourself worthy of succeeding the Honorable
Sen. Bilbo.
As for F.E.P.C. and other anti South measures which the National Catholic Welfare
Council is endeavoring to force upon you, let me tell you that if you will make the
following statement on the 'floor' it will end it all. Just state - "If any of these anti-South
bills go through it will open the way for me to tell the truth about the cause of President
Franklin D. Roosevelts death - Honorable Senator, these Catholic backers of the anti-
South bills cannot stand that exposure. This is your antidote. "It is hardly believable that
a stroke of real appoplexy would take him so quickly that not even one pre death bad
health bulletin would be given. Appoplexy? So great was this appoplectic stroke that he
died so quickly. So great was it, that as the news report stated, "the President was
quickly put into his coffin and it was sealed. That it was not opened again for any one,
not even for members of his family." So great was it that he could not lie in state while
the people mourn 10 days, as is the custom. So great that he was buried in 47 hours. So
great that the funeral could not be delayed 2 hours that a son flying home from the
service could attend, (Would he want to see daddy once more?) but his plane could be
delayed 2 hours at St. Louis, the very
Object Description
| Rating | |
| Title |
Correspondence: John C. Stennis 02/16/1948 - 02/20/1948 |
| Description | Senator Stennis thanks the author for his kind words and ideas about protecting the South. |
| Digital ID | SCRC-B01F04L02 |
| Time Period | 1940-1949 |
| Rights | Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required. |
| Contributors | Digitized as a part of the U.S. Congressional Funding Allocation. |
| Subjects | Stennis, John Cornelius, D-MS |
| Original Collection | John C. Stennis Collection |
| Series | Civil Rights |
| Subseries | Correspondence |
| Box | 1 |
| Folder | 2 |
| Object Type | text |
| Format (Original) | correspondence: 4 p. |
| Format (Digital) | JPEG |
| Digital publisher | Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version). |
| Repository | Congressional Political Research Center. Mississippi State University Libraries. |
| Contact information | For more information send email to sp_coll@library.msstate.edu or call (662) 325-7663 |
| Preferred citation | [Title], John C. Stennis Collection. Congressional and Political Research Center, Mississippi State University Libraries. |
Description
| Title |
Letter to John C. Stennis 02/16/1948 |
| Author of correspondence | unknown |
| Digital ID | B01F04L02Bi |
| Date | February 16, 1948 |
| Time Period | 1940-1949 |
| Rights | Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required. |
| Contributors | Digitized as a part of the U.S. Congressional Funding Allocation. |
| Geographic Location | Pittsburgh, PA |
| Original Collection | John C. Stennis Collection |
| Object Type | text |
| Format (Digital) | JPEG |
| Digital publisher | Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version). |
| Repository | Congressional Political Research Center. Mississippi State University Libraries. |
| Contact information | For more information send email to sp_coll@library.msstate.edu or call (662) 325-7663 |
| Preferred citation | [Title], John C. Stennis Collection. Congressional and Political Research Center, Mississippi State University Libraries. |
| Transcript | Honorable Senator. Permit me please to compliment you on the boldness you are showing, and to say that you are proving yourself worthy of succeeding the Honorable Sen. Bilbo. As for F.E.P.C. and other anti South measures which the National Catholic Welfare Council is endeavoring to force upon you, let me tell you that if you will make the following statement on the 'floor' it will end it all. Just state - "If any of these anti-South bills go through it will open the way for me to tell the truth about the cause of President Franklin D. Roosevelts death - Honorable Senator, these Catholic backers of the anti- South bills cannot stand that exposure. This is your antidote. "It is hardly believable that a stroke of real appoplexy would take him so quickly that not even one pre death bad health bulletin would be given. Appoplexy? So great was this appoplectic stroke that he died so quickly. So great was it, that as the news report stated, "the President was quickly put into his coffin and it was sealed. That it was not opened again for any one, not even for members of his family." So great was it that he could not lie in state while the people mourn 10 days, as is the custom. So great that he was buried in 47 hours. So great that the funeral could not be delayed 2 hours that a son flying home from the service could attend, (Would he want to see daddy once more?) but his plane could be delayed 2 hours at St. Louis, the very |
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