Sound recording of interview with Luís Salas, continued, Papers of James W. Mangan, tape 8, side B, 5/27/1977

Title:

Sound recording of interview with Luís Salas, continued, Papers of James W. Mangan, tape 8, side B, 5/27/1977

Duration: (min: sec):

47:38

Description:

Continued discussion between Luís Salas, James Mangan, and Max Skelton regarding Salas’s book and election manipulation in 1948 Senate race in Jim Wells County, Texas. Topics: Continued discussion about the nature of power; Salas’s analysis of George Parr; origins of the money used by Parr and Salas; where the money went; character and personality of Parr; Salas family; general discussion of Houston; Mangan family; Salas family farmstand; Salas’s manuscript is in the vault of the Alice State Bank; arrangements for Aguilar to visit; the book Black Sunday; Salas wrote a short piece for which he was paid 100 pesos; Aguilar’s biography; Corpus Christi; Parr’s character, fluency in Spanish; how the 200 names were chosen, added, certified; Clarence Martens; Salas’s clerks; how many lists were created, where Salas’s list ended up, which list was seen by Coke Stevenson

Contributor:

Salas, Luís; Mangan, James W.; Skelton, Max Beck

Collection:

Papers of James W. Mangan

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

Sound Recordings

Location Details:

Outdoors, Houston, near Salas home

Subject:

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

Archivist's General Note:

Outdoors; a lot of it is difficult to hear; Written on cassette: “Box 13 5/27/77 side 2” “start 318 & work backwards”

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted