R.I.P.Jack Brooks - a truly decent man

[malaise]

http://www.dallasnews.com/obituary-headlines/20121205-jack-brooks-longtime-congressman-from-southeast-texas-dead-at-89.ece
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Jack Brooks, who spent 42 years in Congress representing his Southeast Texas district and was in the Dallas motorcade in 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, has died. He was 89.

Brooks also served on the House Judiciary Committee, where he strongly supported President Richard Nixon’s impeachment and drafted the articles of impeachment the judiciary panel adopted. Nixon, who resigned Aug. 8, 1974, referred to Brooks as “the executioner.” Brooks would rise to committee chairman.

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 Beaumont Enterprise. He attended Lamar University in Beaumont, then a two-year school, and earned a degree in journalism from the University of Texas. He served with the Marines in the Pacific in World War II and retired as a colonel from the Marine Corps Reserves in 1972. He received a law degree from the University of Texas and was a two-term Texas state legislator when he was elected to the U.S. House at age 29.

He supported civil rights bills, refused to sign the segregationist “Southern manifesto” in 1956, helped write the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 that banned racial segregation.
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Jack Brooks was a decent human being.

[byeya]

1. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe Rep Brooks, with Oliver North as a witness, alluded

to the Reagan/North plan of a series of concentration camps in the USA for Americans if there were mass protests over various illegal wars waged by the Reaganoids. The deal was, apparently, that no mention was to be made of this scheme and Brooks strongly hinted at it.

Am I remembering correctly?

Anyway, Rep Brooks was a credit to the House.

[bullwinkle428]

2. Heard his story this morning on NPR. Lost his seat in '94 as part of Puke Gingrich's

"Republican Revolution"...

The irony of a fantastic public servant like Jack Brooks losing his opportunity to serve as the result of that slimebag's snake oil...GRRR.

[KWorth]

3. Another great man has passed.

Rest in Peace Sir.