RG: Sixty-four that's about the time that we had some problems in
St. Augustine too, I believe.
RE: I left the Attorney General's office in January 1964 to go to
the Court. Right after I left the Attorney General's office I
believe that problem broke out in St. Augustine, but we had
some fine assistant attorney generals left there, like Joe
Jacobs and Ralph Odum. They went down there and helped work
out that problem peacefully and satisfactorily. But that
happened after I left the Attorney General's office. You might
have been there, Captain Garris.
RG: Yes sir, I was at the time. I was stationed in Jacksonville at
that time. Actually in the beginning, you saw the beginnings
and the first training school and were involved with other
schools. Do you feel, how do you feel about the growth of the
Patrol as it is today? Has it grown like you thought it would?
RE: I think it has grown as we envisioned and become what we hoped
it would be. I'm not familiar with all the intimate details of
the progress that has occurred but from what I see from a
distance, it seems that it has fulfilled the dream that we had
way back there in 1939, fifty years ago. It certainly has
justified its creation and been acceptable to the public. It is
an institution which Florida a state with as much highway
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