Sept. 15, 1964 - Goldwater Speaks in St. Petersburg, Florida

Sept. 15, 1964 - Senator Barry Goldwater pledged tonight to work to overturn a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions on the rights of defendants in criminal prosecutions.
The Republican Presidential candidate said in a speech in St. Petersburg, Fla., that criminals were being needlessly pampered and that law and order were being sacrificed “just to give criminals a sporting chance to go free.”
To achieve his end, Goldwater said that, as President, he would first use his power of appointment to Federal courts to “redress constitutional interpretations in favor of the public.”
Goldwater made this pledge at the end of his first day of campaigning in the South, a region on which his election hopes and strategy rest.

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