Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz

Title:

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz

Number of Pages:

29

Description:

Contacts with LBJ; Chairman, AEC; NASA; Dr. Glenn Seaborg; CIA Director; test moratorium; Bay of Pigs; U.S. Intelligence Board; Senate lack of control power over CIA; Cuban Missile Crisis; Latin America; H.A.R. Philby, Burgess and McLean defections; Diem administration; JFK assassination; Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; comparison of LBJ and JFK regarding information; Chinese nuclear bomb; supersonic transport; conference with Franco in Spain; removal of Khrushchev; retirement of McCone; William F. Raborn; CIA role exaggerated by press; National Students Association; Watts and racial problems; Kerner Report; CIA relationship with other organizations in Vietnam; raw information provided for by the CIA

Contributor:

McCone, John A. (John Alex), 1902-1991

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 John A. McCone

Subject:

Assassinations; JFK Assassination; Outer Space; Nuclear weapons; Vietnam

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

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