Sound recording, two segments including notes of Max Skelton re: Luís Salas, 9/23/76, Papers of James W. Mangan, tape 7, side A

Title:

Sound recording, two segments including notes of Max Skelton re: Luís Salas, 9/23/76, Papers of James W. Mangan, tape 7, side A

Duration: (min: sec):

46:17

Description:

Two segments: 0-11:45; 11:45-46:17. Segment 1: AP journalist Max Skelton dictates his notes from a 9/23/76 meeting between Luís Salas, James Mangan, and himself regarding disputed votes in Jim Wells County, Texas, during the 1948 Senate election. Topics: Salas’s role in election; timeline of vote count; San Diego meeting with George Parr, LBJ; usual practice of election manipulation; Truman train visit in Corsicana and Supreme Court halt of investigation; Texas Rangers at Salas’s house; Salas fear of lawsuits; Salas’s book, in Spanish, is in Mexico. Segment 2: KEYH 85 commercial radio broadcast. Topics: Sports trivia; public service announcements; national weather; civil war in Lebanon; national political and economic news; upcoming Presidential election; Houston crime, business, transportation, health; Hurricane Belle; Watergate; Pakistan; national politics; local weather; sports; business news.

Contributor:

Skelton, Max Beck

Collection:

Papers of James W. Mangan

Collection Description:

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Series:

Sound Recordings

Location Details:

Segment 1: In the car outside Salas home in Alice, Texas?

Subject:

Congressional elections; Texas; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; Press

Archivist's General Note:

Segment 1 appears to be contemporanous with Mangan's recording on tape 4, side A. Mangan is audible in background; Written on cassette: “Luis Salas 9/23/76”

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted