"Eugene Talmadge Campaigning in Grant Park (crowd eating watermelon), 1940"

ID: 699 ~ Source: Courtesy of Georgia State University Library. ~ Creator: Lane Brother Commercial Photographers (Atlanta, GA) ~ Date: August, 28, 1940
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A photograph of people eating watermelon at a Talmadge campaign event. Talmadge often hosted big events such as BBQs and fairs when on the campaign trail.

This file appears in: A Dirt Farmer

By Eugene Talmadge
“Boys, Mr. Brown has charged that I am not a lawyer of good repute. I ask any lawyer that has ever practiced law with me at the bar to hold up their hands. Haven’t I always conducted myself as a lawyer should and have I ever violated the ethics of…