Thursday, October 22, 2009

Press releases




As the September 1960 Democratic primary neared, with first-time-for-anything-candidate Pell a supposed underdog in a three-way race with two better-known candidates, Claiborne sent out a flurry of press releases. Here's one of them -- his personally-edited copy and the final version that resulted.
Images courtesy of Special Collections, University of Rhode Island Library.

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