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Recorded September 12, 1989. Jack Bascom Brooks (December 18, 1922 – December 4, 2012) was an American Democratic Party politician from the state of Texas who served 42 years in the United States House of Representatives, initially representing Texas's 2nd congressional district from 1953 through 1967, and then, after district boundaries were ...
Dec 5, 2012 · But for most of the country the Southeast Texas politician is frozen in a photograph, standing over the left shoulder of Jacqueline Kennedy as Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as president. Brooks, who died Tuesday at age 89, was in the Dallas motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
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Dec 5, 2012 · Dec. 5, 2012. Jack Brooks, an irascible, cigar-chomping former Texas congressman who over 42 years defied fellow Southerners to support civil rights, investigated abuses by Presidents Nixon and ...
The Meanest Man in Congress: Jack Brooks and the Making of An American Century chronicles the life of Jack Brooks: a remarkable citizen and generous, diligent, and unflagging public servant. Meticulously researched, it chronicles the indefatigable lawmaker’s role in guiding the epic sweep of U.S. history during the latter half of the 20th ...
Dec 6, 2012 · Jack Bascom Brooks was born Dec. 18, 1922, in Crowley, La., and moved to Texas at age 5. While in public schools, he worked as a carhop, grocery clerk, magazine salesman and a reporter for the ...
Dec 5, 2012 · Jack Brooks died at Baptist Hospital of Beaumont after a sudden illness. By Associated Press. 12/05/2012 04:58 AM EST. HOUSTON (AP) — Jack Brooks, who spent 42 years in Congress representing his ...
Dec 6, 2012 · Jack Brooks, who served 42 years in the U.S. House of Representatives as an unpredictable but influential Texas Democrat, and who was one of the few politicians who cast fear in President Lyndon B ...
