Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker

Title:

Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker

Number of Pages:

30

Description:

First meeting with LBJ in Congress; LBJ more of a man's man than JFK; LBJ's address to American Society of Newspaper Editors; LBJ's acceptance of VP; 1960's Mississippi racial atmosphere; armed himself; Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi; activities of the Citizen Council; 1964 election; civil rights situation in Mississippi; characterization of Governor Barnett; Negro leadership in Mississippi; history's judgementog LBJ; LBJ hated in the South; opinion of LBJ; unique unity of Greenville; political independence; wife's opinion of Lady Bird; strong Kennedy supporter; supper with RFK the night before his assassination; incident on plane after RFK's death; relationship between RFK and LBJ

Contributor:

Carter, Hodding, Jr.

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

See Also:

See all online interviews with Hodding Carter, Jr.

Subject:

Assassinations; Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details