Rivers expresses his concern for the FBI's reputation as the NAACP pushes the Civil Rights Commission. He fears that the FBI, under the current Administration, will lose its respectability and the great works of J. Edgar Hoover will be tarnished.
A document examining the law of contempt in Southern states opposed to the civil rights bill. The document argues that according to the local laws of these states, cases of contempt without the intervention of a jury is perfectly legal and violates no constitutional provision. This is in direct contrast to the arguments of Southern senators and congressmen opposed to the civil rights bill.
