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Mistake in Boston Globe article

There is a serious mistake in the Boston Globe article linked at the bottom. Tex Ritter was running in the Republican Primary against Brock to oppose Gore, not in the Democratic Primary against Gore, when he dubbed him "The gray fox of Tennessee politics."

Rlquall 18:34, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

KKK?

I heard somewhere that he was briefly involved with the KKK. Can this be confirmed?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.132.15.213 (talk • contribs) 13 February 2006.

Perhaps you're thinking of Senator Robert Byrd from W.Va. Kaldari 23:25, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

KKK MEMBER - YES INDEED

Al Gore Sr. was a member of the KKK and voted againsted the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It's just highly UNETHICAL the liberals who run wikipedia think they can simply REMOVE that from his history.

Correct parent? Also audio.

1) Was Al Sr. not the son of Judge John Gore of Jackson Co. Tenn., prominent in 1910s-20s in Nashville? I see his father as Allen here -- possibly correct, and not something I have time to check at the moment, but I was always under the impression he was the son of the Judge. I know the Senator was born in Granville, the would-be riverboat town at on the Cumberland near Carthage where my grandmother grew up.

2) I have recently found and digitized a tape of an interview I did with the elder Sen. Gore by phone during the 1992 presidential campaign. The topic was when and how his son developed the will to move from journalism to public life. The int runs 30+ minutes and is a large mp3 file. I own all rights to it, but I don't know whether its size might violate any rules on wikipedia. I can put it on my own site if need be.

--Tom Wood 05:41, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In order to post the file on Wikipedia, you would need to release it under a free license, i.e. you would need to grant permission for anyone to reuse the material, even for commercial purposes. Also, I'm not sure how "encyclopedic" such material would be, so it may be a better idea for you to host the file yourself and simply link to it as an external link. Kaldari 23:25, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed move

Shouldn't this be at Al Gore, Sr - both father and son were known as "Al Gore" during their careers. PMA (talk) 03:32, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ancestry

I removed the text in italics that follows from the article. I can't find any support for the suggestion that Albert Gore Sr. was not the descendant of Mounce Gore. According to most sources, Charles Claiborne Gore was born 16 January 1840. Most sources give Mounce Gore's death as occurring in 1848 or 1849, but it seems he was dead by 07 June 1841 when an Overton County, Tennessee court record mentioned Mounce Gore's administrator. It appears to be true that Rebecca Simcoe Gore had four out-of-wedlock births after her husband's death, with the first occurring in 1847 and the last in 1859. See [Ancestry of Al Gore by William Addams Reitwiesner], [Mounce Gore posted by James L. Gore], and [Descendants of Isaac (Ike) Gore by Joyce Gore Locke].

(removed text) Although descended from early settlers of Overton County, Tennessee, the actual Gore lineage is in doubt. Gore's great-grandmother, Rebecca Simcoe, married Mounce Gore and had several children. Mounce Gore then died in 1838. In 1840, well over a year after her husband's death, Rebecca gave birth to Claiborne Gore, Gore's grandfather. Rebecca never remarried but continued to have other children into her 40's.

Janeky (talk) 04:29, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Regretting his 1964 civil rights vote

The article states on the issue of voting against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, that that Gore "later claimed that the 1964 vote was his biggest mistake". Can anyone give a source for this? --T smitts (talk) 20:45, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

William Brock

I have removed the part about Sen William Brock "playing on white voters fears" because there is no evidence to back this up and no sources cited to it.

(removed text)In this Senate race, Brock was perceived to have won by playing on white voters' fears of federal civil rights legislation and desegregation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.113.194.230 (talk) 20:18, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]