Dan Sweat oral history interview, December 12, 1996

Interviewed by Shep Barbash and Cliff Kuhn. Among topics discussed: Woodall property and zoning issue; creation of Atlanta Regional Commission; conflict with Judge Durwood Pye about constitutionality of ARC; Bob Young, County Attorney; Harry West, Bill Bassett; Friends of the River; National Recreation Area; Jimmy Carter; Kay and Harold Mackenzie; Barbara Blum; Environmental Protection Agency; Shag Cates, chairman of the Fulton County Commission; Georgia Conservancy; Judd Houk; Sweat and Jimmy Carter interaction about the Stone Mountain Freeway; Georgia Law Number Five; Governor Lester Maddox; Senator Richard Russell's funeral; Winder, Georgia; Atlanta Police Chief Herbert Jenkins; why Sweat moved to Central Atlanta Progress; Sweat's help getting federal grants; Harold Brockey; Alvin Ferst; Tom Roberts.