Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette

The transition from John F. Kennedy to LBJ and comparing the two men; the 1964 civil rights bill; moral versus legal arguments regarding civil rights; Alabama's opposition to civil rights legislation; the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955; George Wallace blocking entrance to the University of Alabama in 1963; the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march; Selma mayor Joseph Smitherman; Hill's opinion of the racial unrest; concern about how all legislative issues could relate to civil rights; the purpose of the Selma march; LBJ's March 15, 1965, "We Shall Overcome" speech; the 1965 Voting Rrights Act; Cronin's speechwriting duties; how civil rights-related legislation of 1964 may have affected the 1964 presidential election; partisanship in the South.