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Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

~ That was a hell of a lot of work. the Fort Worth Press~ and the E1 Paso The Houston Press was sold and closed. Press closed week before last; they shut it down. any money in God knows when. one in Okla- The Fort Worth It hadn't made The El Paso Herald

Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

in to the committee--I can't recall exactly, I believe the convention was in Fort Worth in 1948--and the committee worked on it all night, they finally got around to hearing the thing on the next morning. Mc: Now where do you fit into all this? Ma: I was just

Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: L.T. (TEX) EASLEY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Easley's residence, Alexandria, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start briefly with your background. You're from Fort Worth, is that right? E: Yes, I was born and reared in Fort

Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for a news bureau which represented newspapers in Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Wichita Falls, and Amarillo. So I started covering Lyndon Johnson then, and Liz--I think you've already interviewed her, Joe--wrote a column called "Southern Accents

Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. There were others from around the state: Byron Skelton in Temple, the lady in Fort Worth; she's still living. G: What's her name? B: No. Gosh. [Margaret Carter?] Johnson? Gee whiz, I saw her sometime last year at some function, the first time I had

Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

hundred of them at this meeting--came in with chips on their shoulder . shoulder . And he came in with a chip on his I was informed that some of the people in Fort Worth and Dallas, as a quid pro quo for their financial support, had made him
delegation’s support of JFK for vice-presidential candidate under Adlai Stevenson; LBJ’s worth in the 1960 JFK/LBJ presidential ticket; 1965 reorganization of Customs; LBJ’s anger over criticism and impatience.

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that he rode all the way to Fort Worth Washington. G: and some of them even that he rode all the way to He didn't, got off at [BryanJ. How do you know he came to Austin? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Association with LBJ; Blanco County; Johnson family; college life; White Stars; student activities; Houston; Professor Greene; assistant to Kleberg; Maury Maverick; 1937 campaign; campaign advisers

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)

Antonio Thursday, I'll get on the back-up, and we'll go to Houston, and from Houston, we're going to go up to Fort Worth, and then we're going on to Dallas. I'll see you next week when we get back to Washington." I said, "Fine, sir." And we took off

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, I'd been working. My sister lived in Fort Worth and I got a cab and went out there and had coffee. About that time the phone rang and it was Mother and [she] said, ItWell, Sam Houston, I just wanted to tell you Lyndon just called me. 1t Here

Oral history transcript, Ferd Kaufman, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was in Dallas during the assassination. G: Were you? K: Yes. G: What can you recall about that? K: Well, I recall that I had gone--my assignment was to go to Fort Worth that morning for the breakfast meeting at the hotel, and then I was to do that bit

Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to three stars, 1963 to 1965; ordered to Fort Bragg, and I got the orders in I guess it was March, but I wasn't supposed to go until June. When the Dominican Republic thing broke in late April, I took off for Santo Domingo instead of Fort Bragg

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

if I make a suggestion to you?" I said, "No." He said, "You shouldn't have paid me twenty five dollars." Well, I said, "I think that's worth it." And he said, "But you didn't examine it carefully. If you'd turned it around and looked on the back

Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the movie stars. They bothered me. F: Did you get much opportunity to observe the Vice President in his relationship with the President at the time, President Kennedy? C: No. There was not much relationship that I could see. Now remember I was brand new

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Antonio to Houston and Fort Worth to Dallas? W: lid been on the whole thing. F: Did it seem to be going as well as is generally reported to be? W: Yes, it did. We were all aware, however, of pulling and hauling back and forth between the [Governor

Oral history transcript, Whitney Shoemaker, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. telegrams, and postcards, petitions. This includes letters, Not too many as far as the total number goes in relation to total volume are form letters that are sent to the President for a cause. These are, through our--I'll explain in a little bit

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Austin and then spoke on the steps of the Capitol and then on to Fort Worth and then to Dallas, and then LBJ introduced JFK at the Dallas auditorium. Anything on any of these particular stops? R: No, except they were much more successful than anyone had

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

Houston; and Doug Singleton also from down there; Warren Woodward, who was a part of our lives for years and years, but I think by that time he had gone to richer fields, gone to work for Mr. Sid Richardson in Fort Worth, as indeed--I don't know

Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Carter, Fort Worth Star Telegram, and some more of his newspaper friends. He asked what could he do, and I knew he was close to a few newspapermen like that who had stayed with Senator Connally. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, Donnelly Bolton, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

you do from the platform. Okay. Then back to Fort Benning, and the Infantry School, quickly to Japan for thirty months, where I was in the Twenty-fifth Division, but you know, it was not a division as such. It was an occupation force that did all sorts

Oral history transcript, Emmett Shelton, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

phone rang in the middle of the night about twelve o'clock and this lady introduced herself as Mrs. Ault. She was on the long distance exchange and there was a conversa- tion going on between Bill Hangar in Fort Worth--a lawyer in Fort Worth--and Dr
. Cecil Evans; the Black Stars and the White Stars; LBJ at Southwest Texas; debate teams; the DeMolays; teachers at the college

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 2/26/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

conversation. I don't know whether or not it worked anything out, except they talked to each other. My recollection is that John sort of stayed pretty much away from the campaign until Senator Kennedy was going to make an appearance in Fort Worth perhaps, and I

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

assistant now and was his assistant then--Craig told me this story--made the mistake just before the vote of taking about three hundred angry telegrams from Fort Worth businessmen over to the speaker's lobby and showing them to Jim just before the vote

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXXI -- 3 pretty much across the state with him, in Fort Worth and Dallas and San Antonio at the Alamo, which is sort of a ritual, as was going to Uvalde to see the old former vice president [John

Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

baskets of flowers almost parallel to the ground because the wind was always blowing during these barbecues. You just mention the word barbecue and the wind would start blowing out there. But Walter Jetton, the famous mobile caterer from Fort Worth

Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for Albert Thomas. '.::'hen that night after the party in Houston I rode with the President and visited with him considerably on the way to Carswell [AFB] in Fort Worth. And then the next day which was. the day Kennedy was killed, assassinated, I rode

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

not dollar conscious and getting their money's worth. A lot of things were begun by Truman that never came to fruition, and that, as you look back here in 1949, it took all the way to the middle sixties to get some of them done. And some of them are not yet
; James Forrestal; socializing with people such as Gwen Tucker, Warren Magnuson, and Drew Pearson; the Sequoia; having Lynda and Luci's portrait painted; the Johnsons' Austin house on Dillman Street; vacationing in Brackettville and Fort Clark, Texas

Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, and one of my spells was assignment to the Infantry Replacement Training Center at Fort McClellan, Alabama. After I got my commission as an infantry officer I was over there training troops, about 90 per cent of which were black troops. [It was] kind

Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

this remark, to show you how astute he was, he said, "I don't want to do it, because: I've got to run the Senate,. but, "he said, "they're putting so much heat on me that I've got to do something, and I'd like for you to go over to Fort Worth and get with John

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

convention then, in September? It was in Fort Worth. That was 1956. W: No. G: There was a big fight between which delegations were going to be seated. The liberal loyalists sent rival delegations from a lot of counties. I was wondering if you had seen

Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. But it seemed that somewhere along the line someone had taken the trouble to see what I had done in the reserve, and my background at Columbia University in history and political science, and they sent me out to the Army Intelligence School at Fort Riley

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Wichita Falls--but I would listen to him and sometimes went out to the parks in Fort Worth and had heard him. I really liked his style as a speaker. It turned out he knew my father, but he never told me that. I learned that only later. 1 LBJ

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and then at the very end he hit the big cities. In the second primary he was going to the bigger cities. I don't mean just Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Fort Worth, but the more--we have some other towns in Texas, you might say middle-size. He would go by plane

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a series of other assignments without being related to intelligence, until finally in the early sixties, I took over as commandant of the U.S. Army Security Agency School and Training Center at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. The Army Security Agency deals

Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

then as aircraft commander was in the 707 down to--up here at Carswell, Fort Worth. It was a long runway. As I recall it's about eleven or twelve hundred feet long and I just literally flew the airplane on the runway and you couldn't even tell we were down
How Thornhill became Vice President LBJ's pilot in 1962; Thornhill's and James Cross' duties; the Jet Star airplane; Thornhill's flying experience; Thornhill's plane wreck in India; Air Force One crew; Thornhill having to fire a crew member

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harfield Weedin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Weedin G: ~~ I -- 14 Now one of the things he did, he made a speech in Fort Worth in May, advising the President to declare a state of national emergency, and then I guess four days later the President did just that. Did

Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of them, and I'm sure he quoted hi s, tooo And that when I got that done I got my secretary trained--I had two secretaries trained to do that. "Then I spent a lot of time out traveling over Texas writing stories for Houston papers, Dallas, Fort Worth

Oral history transcript, Najeeb E. Halaby, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, there had been between Phoenix and Memphis, Tennessee, centers at El Paso, San Antonio, Fort Worth, New Orleans, and Memphis. These are wide stretches of land and airspace, and it was perfectly clear that we didn't need the centers at El Paso, San Antonio

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that they were actually election reports. that we bought those reports. I had a hard time convincing him They promised me--Sam Fore promised me--that he'd send me a telegram about the election at Muskogee, Oklahoma. When I got there about 11 o'clock-- F

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