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Show what's the connection between Utah and the Civil Rights Movement. You pointed out sometimes in programs or when you tried to do programs--we had, that's right, we had one program on Sundays. A kind of a think peace program. Our own , oh, just as today, on NBC or CBS, Sunday is kind of a learned waste land. You interview, you know, for instance, they interviewed Washington people. L: Meet the Nation. Face the nation. All that stuff. J: Meet the press. We had our own. We set up a half hour on Sundays. I had Allen Moll who you may know. L: How do you spell Moll? J: M-o-11. He was an announcer. He's an attorney now. And had an announcer named Gordon Owen and we had a fellow from the University G. Lowell Durham. Who later went on to become the President of the University of Arizona. And came back, I think, to be a wheel in the church. But any rate, set up that thing using the newsreel, let's say, of a demonstration down South. Would persuade Lowell Durham, I wrote a lot of his stuff there, that there is a parallel. After all, the Mormons were persecuted back in the Midwest. There was violence, lynching, blacks were undergoing the same thing. The Civil Rights Movement had a connection here if you worked at linkage. So we would try, you would find an occasional black minister, say, in Ogden. There was maybe one in Salt Lake. Ogden, you see, had a more sizeable black constituency than Salt Lake because the railroad, the pullman porters and people like that had headquartered up there. You'd bring in someone from the campus, let's say. |
