Immigration lawyer Charles Foster describes his law career in Houston. He talks about some of the events that shaped his life and discusses one of his most famous cases.
Governor Connally, Date: "11/08/62": Footage from the press conference after John B. Connally, Jr., wins the 1962 Texas gubernatorial race. -- Glenn & Carpenter in [], Date: "11/08/62": Astronauts John Glenn and Scott Carpenter endorse the oral...
Raseberry, Date: "11/27/71": A spokesman comments on negotiations and an injunction. -- Absentee, Date: "11/27/71": Footage of voters at a polling location. -- Body Search, Date: "11/27/71": A man recounts his experience of being pulled over and...
Journalism--Texas--Houston ; KHOU-TV (Television station : Houston, Tex.) ; Houston (Tex.)--Press coverage ; Funeral rites and ceremonies--Press coverage ; Fires--Texas--Houston--Press coverage ; Texas. State Penitentiary at Huntsville--Press...
Funeral, Date: "08/05/74": Funeral service. -- Huntsville, Date: "08/05/74": Channel 11 reporter Dennis Murphy follows up on the Huntsville prison siege; interviews with two women about working in prisons after the eleven-day siege in the Texas...
Journalism--Texas--Houston ; KHOU-TV (Television station : Houston, Tex.) ; Houston (Tex.)--Press coverage ; Texas. State Penitentiary at Huntsville--Press coverage ; Escaped prisoners--Texas--Press coverage ; Prison...
[] {Title not provided}, Date: "08/04/74": Coverage of the end of the Huntsville prison siege, which had begun on July 24, 1974, including a statement about the killed hostages, Elizabeth Beseda and Julia Standley. -- Hostage Family Reaction, Date:...
Journalism--Texas--Houston ; KHOU-TV (Television station : Houston, Tex.) ; Houston (Tex.)--Press coverage ; Texas. State Penitentiary at Huntsville--Press coverage ; Prison violence--Texas--Huntsville--Press coverage ; Hostage...
Huntsville/McElvain, Date: "08/03/74": Coverage of the Huntsville prison siege, which began on July 24, 1974. -- Huntsville/Thompson, Date: "08/03/74": Interview with a man, who had attempted to escape prison several decades ago, about the...
Journalism--Texas--Houston ; KHOU-TV (Television station : Houston, Tex.) ; Houston (Tex.)--Press coverage ; Vance, Carol--Press coverage ; Public prosecutors--Texas--Harris County--Press coverage ; Grand jury--Texas--Press coverage ;...
Vance on Graol[?] Jr, Date: "05/23/69": Harris County District Attorney Carol Vance talks about the problem of people talking to the press about an investigation pending before the grand jury and the leaking of information to the news media. --...
Journalism--Texas--Houston ; KHOU-TV (Television station : Houston, Tex.) ; Police departments--Texas--Cleveland--Press coverage ; City managers--Texas--Houston--Press coverage ; American Petroleum Institute--Press coverage ; Ikard, Frank Neville,...
Hostages Families, Date: "07/30/74": Interviews with several men about a disagreement between the Cleveland Police Department and Tommy Booth, City Manager of Cleveland, Texas. -- API Frank Ikard, Date: "07/30/74": Interview with American Petroleum...
Lawson, William (Rev.)--Interviews ; African American religious leaders--Interviews ; African American Ministers--Texas--Houston--Interviews ; African American churches ; African Americans--Religion ; Civil Rights--Texas--Houston--Interviews ;...
Sakowitz, Robert, 1938-;
Businessmen--Texas--Houston--Interviews;
Retail trade--Texas--Houston;
Sakowitz Department Store -- History;
Family-owned business enterprises -- Texas -- History;
Oral histories
Robert Sakowitz talks about his family business in Houston, the Sakowitz stores; about the city of Houston at the time the stores were established and developed; and the personalities he met while doing business.
Letter to the Minister for Foreign Affairs Of Her Majesty, the Queen of Spain, from Anson Jones, Department of State, Republic of Texas. Jones appoints George W. Terrell, Minster Charge d'Affairs, to be the representative of the Republic of Texas...
Letter from Anson Jones to George W. Terrell, October 29, 1844, providing Terrell instructions on his immediate responsible as Minister representing the Republic of Texas to England, France and Spain.
