Howard Gilmer(Ted Dalton) Campaign Speech
(WDBJ Television, Roanoke, VA)

This film was labelled "Howard Gilmer Campaign Speech" in the WDBJ files; however, it appears that this speaker is not Gilmer who dropped out as a candidate for Attorney General in May 1957. Gilmer was a "machine" picked candidate who gave few speeches on substantive issues before withdrawing. Lindsay Almond is shown at the end of the film. This speaker, perhaps Ted Dalton, who was running for governor, considered it ridiculous that Virginia has "spent a million dollars and lost every case in court" on the desegregation cases. He criticized "the machine" politicians (the Byrd Organization) for "lulling the people to sleep" with assurances that the Pupil Placement Law or massive resistance would work. He claimed that "Virginia is in a crisis."