Scope and Contents

The Thomason Audio Visual Collection contains 41 individual audiocassette recordings. These audiocassette recordings include oral history interviews of several Huntsville and Walker County residents. The oral history interviews were recorded by Paul Culp, Charles Dwyer, and Dr. Gerald Holder. The collection also includes poetry readings, music, and radio broadcasts that concern Texas and past employees of Sam Houston State University.

Scope and Contents The materials that make up this collection represent the life and work of James Van Benschoten Bennett. More specifically, the materials portray his role as the second Director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons and as a prolific prison reformer. The most popular theme represented in the collection is prison policy and reform – which is often discussed in articles and speeches composed by Bennett. The collection also contains numerous correspondence and case histories of prison inmates. Pictorial...