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Object Description
Interview no. | C-0123 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | C.9. Notable North Carolinians: B. Everett Jordan Project |
Project description | Interviews, 1970-1993, conducted by Ben F. Bulla chiefly for his book Textiles and Politics: The Life of B. Everett Jordan: From Saxapahaw to the United States Senate (1992). Interviewees are family members, friends, political associates, business associates, and employees of Jordan. There are also background materials, drafts of some chapters, and a complete unedited version of the book manuscript. |
Date | March 24, 1981 |
Interviewee | Ervin, Sam J. (Sam James), 1896-1985. |
Interviewee occupation |
Legislators Attorneys Judges |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Bulla, Ben F. |
Abstract | Sam J. Ervin, senatorial colleague of B. Everett Jordan, discusses Jordan's background, life and career. Topics include Jordan's family and personality; his religious views; his career as a senator; Jesse Helms; their disagreement over American soldiers being brought home from the Vietnam War; the Bobby Baker investigation; and Jordan's friendship with Lyndon Johnson. |
Subject Topical | North Carolina--Biography. |
Subject Name |
Jordan, B. Everett (Benjamin Everett) Ervin, Sam J. (Sam James), 1896-1985. |
Citation | Interview with Sam James Ervin by Ben F. Bulla, 24 March 1981. C-0123 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Description
Interview no. | C-0123 |