Wayne Morse Commercials

These radio commercials were prepared for Wayne Morse's 1968 Senate Campaign. The reel of audio tape was discovered in the DPO warehouse, along with a lot of other memorabilia from past campaigns. The tape was recorded at Northwestern Studio in Portland (the same studio where the Kingsmen and Paul Revere both recorded Louie Louie a few days apart), and has now been digitized to 24-bit aiff files for preservation.

In 1964, he was one of only two Senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (Alaska senator Ernest Gruening was the other), which authorized further United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Partially as a result, Morse lost his seat in the 1968 election to Bob Packwood by 3,000 votes.

A recent Oregonian editorial (January 19, 2006) quotes Cecil Andrus, the former governor of Idaho and former Interior Secretary under Jimmy Carter on this campaign...

Andrus argues that the "exodus of Northwest political giants began in 1968" when Bob Packwood took out Wayne Morse: "Packwood . . . seemed to set ground rules for the modern business of politics: Stand for only one thing, re-election . . .