First page of House Select Committee on Assassinations with Fidel Castro April 3, 1978 in Havana, Cuba. Preview of Document. Louis Stokes manuscript collection. Collection being processed.
Staff Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations U.S. House of Representatives. Cover of report, preview of document. Louis Stokes manuscript collection being processed. September 18, 1978
Page 2 of Castro interview, U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations. Preview of document. Louis Stokes manuscript collection being processed. September 18, 1978
Analysis of Recording Sounds Relating to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy Cover Page, January 1979. Preview of document. Louis Stokes Manuscript Collection being processed.
Analysis of Recording Sounds Relating to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy Page 2, January 1979. Preview of document. Louis Stokes Manuscript Collection being processed.
Analysis of Recording Sounds Relating to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy Page 3, January 1979. Preview of document. Louis Stokes Manuscript Collection being processed.
Instructions from the House Select Committee on Assassinations for Conduct in a Foreign Country. Louis Stokes Manuscript Collection. Collection being processed.
The Washington Newsletter of the Assassination Bureau Vol. 2 No. 4. Cover of newsletter with article about House Select Committee on Assassinations preview. Louis Stokes manuscript collection being processed.
Cover page for a series of photographs of the Martin Luther King, Jr. crime scene. Taken on April 4-5th by the Memphis Police Department. Louis Stokes Manuscript Collection. Collection being processed.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Task Force photographs of the crime scene. April 4-5th, 1968. Canipe Amusement Company 424 S. Main St. Memphis showing bundle 4/4/68. Louis Stokes manuscript collection. Collection being processed.
Second page of the Final Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations U.S. House of Representatives. Preview of document. Louis Stokes manuscript collection being processed. 12-13-1978. Volume I
Cover page of the Final Report by the Select Committee on Assassinations U.S. House of Representatives. Preview of document. Louis Stokes manuscript collection being processed. 12-13-1978 Volume I Findings and Recommendations.
Letter to Hon. Edmond L. Henshaw Jr. from the Final Report by the Select Committee on Assassinations U.S. House of Representatives. Preview of document. Louis Stokes manuscript collection being processed. 12-22-1978 Volume I Findings and Recommendations.
Letter to Members of the House Select Committee for Assassinations from Italian American Committee, dated March 23, 1977 and signed by Father Louis Gigante. Louis Stokes Manuscript Collection being processed.
Not long after his election, Carl Stokes appointed Rev. Caviness to the Zoning Board of Appeals. Stokes said, “Rev. Caviness is one of the most widely respected ministers in the city and one of the most actively involved in community affairs,” and he believed that Caviness would work for the preservation of his neighborhoods. In this role, he helped shepherd new opportunities for low-income housing and supported local business owners., Courtesy of Rev. E. Theophilus Caviness
Benjamin S. Stefanski II was born in Garfield Heights and graduated from Case Western Reserve University and the University of Michigan. He served as Utilities Director for Carl Stokes and worked to combat pollution in Lake Erie, as well as developing the Cleveland regional sewer system.
The Rev. Dr. Joan Campbell was born in Youngstown and is an ordained pastor, who has committed her life to service and activism working with important leaders such as Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King, Jr. She worked to organize voters for Carl Stokes' mayoral campaign.She is also the mother of Jane Campbell, the first female mayor of Cleveland, Ohio.
The Rev. Emmitt Theophilus Caviness is a native of Marshall, Texas. He is the pastor of Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church and the president of the Cleveland chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Rev. Caviness served as a commissioner in the Carl Stokes mayoral administration.
Dee Perry spent 40 years as a Cleveland radio broadcaster. She hosted programs on Cleveland's public radio station, WCPN, where she was a leader in promoting the Arts. She has conducted more than 10,000 interviews and was the lead interviewer for the Stokes Oral History Project.
Michael White is from the Glenville neighborhood, of Cleveland, Ohio. While studying at The Ohio State University, he was studen union president. White was campaign manager for Louis Stokes' Congressional Campaign, and also served on the Cleveland City Council between 1978 and 1984. White was mayor of Cleveland from 1990 to 2002.