Box 1

Contains Cooke's research on the Rorison family of North Carolina, especially of Harmon Chadbourn Rorison and John C. Rorison, brothers who served in World War I and World War II. This includes newspaper articles, photographs, newsletters, typed notes, and two CDs containing files and photos. The majority of the material is copies of the original documents.

This folder contains a copy of sheet music for the Star-Spangled Banner.

Contains a "Youth for Wallace" campaign manual from George C. Wallace's campaign in the 1968 United States presidential election.

Contains campaign pamphlets and fact sheets for Senator Eugene McCarthy in the 1968 presidential election.

Contains Cooke's NBC News press credentials, reporter's notebook, and a Carter/Mondale campaign pin.

Contains directories, seating charts, floor plans, food prices, and schedules. Of particular interest is a document listing the number and percentage of women delegates from each state.

Contains biographies of various candidates up for nomination, including Florida Governor Reubin Askew, Senator and NASA astronaut John Glenn, and the Honorable Walter Mondale, who would go on to serve as President Jimmy Carter's vice president. Additional biographies represent Barbara Jordan--the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives, Ella Grasso, Wendell R. Anderson, Frank Church, Edmund S. Muskie, and Robert S. Strauss.

Contains nominating and keynote speeches by various candidates at the convention, notably including future President Jimmy Carter and former astronaut, Senator John Glenn. Other speakers include Reverend Joseph L. Baglio, Senator Edmund S. Muskie, Archibald Cox, Peter W. Rodino, Jr., James Killilea, Margaret Constanza, Representative Barbara Jordan, Gladys Noon Spellman, and Walter F. Mondale.

Contains telephone directories/guides, delegate and alternate rolls, telephone slip forms, and a Newsweek convention scorecard.

Contains booklets on the Presidents of the United States, George Roden for President, the National Democratic Platform 1976, the Report of the 1976 Committee on Rules. and "We, The People of Urban America..." from the National Conference of Democratic Mayors.