Steve Flowers Big Jim #11
September 13, 2017
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Since early July, APR political commentator Steve Flowers has been weaving stories about one of Alabama’s most colorful Governors—Big Jim Folsom. Every political career has to come to an end, and 1962 saw the beginning of the end for Folsom. Television was becoming more and more popular during political campaigns. Observers of the 1960 debates between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy noted how Nixon didn’t look good on TV. Steve Flowers explains how television was equally unkind to Big Jim…