Bruce Alger

[citation needed] On his return to civilian life, RCA refused to rehire him on the grounds that he had been out of television production for too long.[citation needed] In 1945, Alger moved to Dallas and formed his own real estate and land development company.Despite being in the majority of the Texas delegation to decline to sign the 1956 Southern Manifesto opposing the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education, Alger voted against the Civil Rights Acts of 1957,[5] 1960,[6] and 1964,[7] as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S."[9] In 1960, Alger organized a protest at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas against Lyndon Johnson, by then the U.S. Senate majority leader, who was campaigning to become vice president as John F. Kennedy's running mate.The rally turned ugly, and Lady Bird Johnson was spat upon by a protestor,[10] and her white gloves were yanked from her and thrown into a gutter.Vice President Richard M. Nixon believed that the "Mink Coat Mob" incident caused him to lose Texas's then twenty-four electoral votes to Kennedy and Johnson.[13] Sanders was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee against Senator John Tower in 1972 and was later appointed a U.S. District Judge by President Jimmy Carter.[16] Alger was divorced in 1961 from Lucille "Lynn" Antoine, who said that politics caused an estrangement in the marriage to the point that they had little in common except for a liking for gin rummy.The couple had three children, Jill Alger of The Villages in Sumter County in central Florida and sons David and Steven, who died in 1964 and 2012, respectively.The couple settled in 2000 in Barefoot Bay in Brevard County near Melbourne on the central section of the Atlantic Coast of Florida.[9] On April 13, 2015, Alger died of heart disease at the age of ninety-six at an assisted living facility in Palm Bay, also in Brevard County, Florida.
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