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Steve Flowers on Big Jim Folsom Part Eleven

Alabama Public Radio
Published September 13, 2017 at 11:27 AM CDT

The 1962 Alabama governor's race featured the modern media television for the first time. Big Jim Folsom had won his two previous races campaigning from the back of a flatbed truck making speeches throughout the state...
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