Abstract

Governor Kirk's Private Eyes

This article focuses on the political personality and social convictions of Claude Roy Kirk, Jr., Governor of Florida, by illustrating his intuitive political decisions and works in context of some events. According to the author, mounting a white purity charger and a grassroots revolution against crime has made the state's first Kirk the state's first Republican governor since Reconstruction. The event was significant far beyond the borders of Florida, for signs multiply that large segments of the American electorate are becoming fed up with crime and are ready to take matters into their own hands. To fight with increasing crimes of rapes, Kirk's solution has been to go outside the established agencies of the law and hire George A. Wackenhut's army of private detectives. Wackenhut was literally referred as the private eye of Governor Kirk.