Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker

Title:

Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker

Number of Pages:

40

Description:

First meeting LBJ; government service recruiting; John Doar; May 1961 Freedom Rides; Justice Department attorneys; 1964 Civil Rights Bill drafting; LBJ as VP; friction between JFK and LBJ’s staffs; President’s Commission on Equal Employment; Russell Amendment; James Meredith; May 1963 to Birmingham; Oxford affair; RFK; Mississippi Governor Barnett; Governor Wallace’s stand at University of Alabama; Tom Watkins; Governor J.P. Colman; FBI cooperation; JFK assassination; Justice Department under LBJ; 1964 Klan problem in Mississippi; Allen Dulles’ trip to Mississippi; Selma-Montgomery march; meeting between LBJ and Governor Wallace; Wilson Baker; changes in civil rights leadership; development corporations; Bedford Stuyvesant Development Corporation; study commission for Selective Service System; LBJ’s greatest strengths and weaknesses

Contributor:

Marshall, Burke, 1922-2003

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 Burke Marshall

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

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