Discover Our Collections


  • Specific Item Type > Oral history (remove)

187 results

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 4 (IV), 3/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of money, but I just couldn't afford it, and I said so. And that was the end of that. About three months later, Mrs. [Imelda] Marcos' brother [Eduardo Romualdez], who was the ambassador to the United States, was at the gate at the White House and called
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the fact that he fell like a ton of bricks for the wife of President [Ferdinand] Marcos [Marcos was president 1965-1986]. She [Imelda Marcos] was a beauty! Oh, boy, was she a beauty. He started dancing with her and I didn't think they were ever going
Oral history transcript, Claud Kellam, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • started to school in San Marcos, San Marcos as my regular home. But our families had known each other back in Blanco County. G: Are there any stories or anecdotes, significant or merely colorful. about the President's growing up which you have not seen
Oral history transcript, G. Preston Smith and Ellen Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1979 INTERVIEWEE: G. PRESTON SMITH (with comments by Mrs. Smith) I NTERV I ErlER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Smith's residence, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Smith, let's begin with your background briefly and how you came to San Marcos
Oral history transcript, Thomas J. Dunlap, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • : For the Office of Economic • • • • • TD: Yes, for the regional office here. We handle eleven states out of this area office. PB: Mr. Dunlap, I understand you were at San Marcos in Southwest Texas College at the same time as Mr. Johnson. We are trying to get
Oral history transcript, Allie T. Hughes and Lorena D. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • Marcos, Texas, and I had the happy privilege of being seated next to the President. EG: You were both in college then? LH: We were both in Southwest Texas Teachers College in San Marcos, Texas. EG: Were you in the same year, do you recall? LH: Yes
  • Met LBJ at Southwest Texas Teachers College, San Marcos, TX in 1927; LBJ's interest in debating; LBJ's residence over garage at President Evans' house; influence of Dr. Greene on his students; as freshmen, LBJ interested in psychology, government
Oral history transcript, Alfred T. "Boody" Johnson, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , my sister was going to school in San Marcos during the summertime. She was staying with Margaret, Lyndon's cousin, and Kitty-- I believe her last name was Carlyle [Cockrell?], I'm not for sure now about that. But they were rooming together
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • : We were college students at San Marcos, Southwest State Teachers College. We both entered in what was at that time called the spring term. It was a short term that no longer exists but about the first of April or something like that. My first
  • Student with LBJ at San Marcos Southwest Texas Teachers College, 1927; details of student expenses, influences and habits; LBJ's graduation in three years from a four-year plan; experiences as a teacher in Pearsall and Houston; Director of NYA
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 3 (III), 5/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • students at San Marcos, he was probably the only one doing that. The rest of them were interested in playing poker and a hundred other things, but not interested in politics or how people got elected. But Lyndon was. Now, Professor Greene was pretty
Oral history transcript, Richard Spinn, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1979 INTERVIEWEE: Richard Spinn INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Washington County State Park, Brenham, Texas [Tape 1 of 1, Side 1] G: Let's start with your background briefly. Tell me how you got to San Marcos. S: I was born on a farm
  • Biographical information; early education; Spinn's experiences as a student at Southwest Texas State Teacher's College (SWTSTC) in San Marcos; LBJ's reputation on campus at SWTSTC; student organizations and dating; LBJ as a debater; the Black Stars
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1979 INTERVIEl.JEE: WILTON WOODS INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Woods I residence, Seguin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with your background briefly and how you ended up at San Marcos. W: How I ended up in San Marcos
Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • even vote. But as I say, all I remember is it was a fun job for us down there, just greeting the people and, oh, we typed some of the letters. Oh, there was a sweet little man who was--now that's who ran our office, the postmaster from San Marcos
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a little background on my early days, before I went to San Marcos or not? Are you interested in that part? G: Basically where you are from, where you were born. R: I was born in Diboll, Texas, on September 19, 1906. school there. I finished grammar
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: R. VERNON WHITESIOE Richter) INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Whiteside's residence, Marble Falls, Texas (with occasional comnents by Walter Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Let me ask you to trace your steps to San Marcos. W: Well, I
Oral history transcript, C.E. "Curley" Doyle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1979 INTERVIEWEE: C. E. "CURLEY" DOYLE INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Doyle's residence, San Marcos, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with your background briefly, Colonel Doyle. You're from--? D: I'm from San Marcos
  • Biographical information; meeting LBJ at college in San Marcos; clubs at Southwest Texas State Teachers' College (SWTSTC), including the White Stars; LBJ's parents; LBJ's early interest in politics; professors LBJ admired at SWTSTC, including
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it, but it doesn't come to me. But Ruth Lewis is about as homely a girl as there was in the school at that time. She hung around with Ella SoRelle and she was a local girl, a San Marcos girl. They tried to make a big to-do about something; I don't remember what
Oral history transcript, Ella SoRelle Porter and Mike Porter, interview 1 (I), 11/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ELLA SoRELLE PORTER with comments by Mr. Porter INTERVIEHER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Porter's residence, Houston, Texas 28~ 1979 Tape 1 of 1 G: Okay, Mrs. Porter, let's start with your background. You're from San Marcos
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • mother were girlhood chums and schoolmates. I would guess that I first met the President sometime after he enrolled in college at San Marcos. G: Did you and he attend college together? K: No, we did not. I'm somewhat older than the President and had
  • Biographical information; San Marcos; Professor Greene; White Stars; NYA; roadside parks; projects; programs; LBJ's activities; Lady Bird; Alvin Wirtz; 1937 Congressional campaign
Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Texas, and to Brownsville and Cuero. folks settled there. The I went through school in Cuero and after graduation I went to the University of Texas for one year and then I transferred from the University of Texas over to San Marcos in the fall of 1930
  • Biographical information; San Marcos; College Star; White Stars; membership; purpose; LBJ as state NYA administrator; NYA public relations activities; staffers; structure of the NYA; projects; Herbert Henderson; working habits; later contacts
Oral history transcript, Mylton Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • inclined to think--but at any rate, many nights I'd stay up all night or stay up till I could put the paper to bed. We had it printed down at the San Marcos Record, which was the local paper in San Marcos, and there was one particular individual
Oral history transcript, Merrell Blackman, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : November 15, 1979 INTERVIEWEE : MERRELL BLACKMAN INTERVIEWER : MICHAEL L . GILLETTE PLACE : Mr . - Blackman's,residence, Bastrop, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with how you came to San Marcos . B: Hutto, Texas, yes, sir . school diploma
  • Biographical information; SWTTC; contact with LBJ; Harris Blair debating club; Student Welfare Council; 1928 Democratic Convention; Black Stars; LBJ as Blackman's best man; LBJ's activities and family; President Evans; dating in San Marcos
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Johnson, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and he was getting the car, and he was going back to summer school. I saw him at summer school because I went back to San Marcos myself the following summer, and I knew his brother, Sam Houston, too. They called him Sam Houston Johnson; I guess you've
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 2 (II), 4/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ~ 1982 INTERVIEWEE: WILTON WOODS INTERVEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Woods' residence, Seguin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: I wanted to start out by asking you today if you've ever heard or received an indication that LBJ went to San Marcos after
Oral history transcript, Sidney "Sub" Pyland, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in San Marcos. So we'd been friends all our lives. He and I, I guess, were the first athletes in this organization. He was a track man and wasn't much of a football player, you know, but he was a good track man. But he had interests in that direction
  • in college; STSTC entrance requirements and preliminary coursework available to prospective students; the influence local San Marcos students had over STSTC activities as opposed to students from other towns; Professor H.M. Greene; other professors
Oral history transcript, John Brooks Casparis, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at county and went to district at San Marcos and won our first debate, and then we lost our second debate. G: Were you partners? C: Oh, yes, we were. But those were the only trips we made. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • History of the Caparis family; Mrs. Rebekah Johnson and her technique of elocution; debate and interscholastic league; 1924 debating with LBJ as partner; research material for debates; debate topics; LBJ as debater; district meet at San Marcos
Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: HORACE E. RICHARDS INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Richards' residence, Corpus Christi, Texas Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: When did you enroll at San Marcos first? R: It was 1923. G: 1923? That's pretty early. R: Well
Oral history transcript, Emmett Shelton, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: EMMETT SHELTON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Shelton's office, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2 G: I wanted you to discuss that institution [Southwest Texas State Teachers College] as it was when you attended San Marcos. S
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 3 (III), 4/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Not at all, to my memory. G: You never had a flare-up or anything where the students objected to-- R: No. G: Now, we know, of course, that when LBJ went to San Marcos. he had to prove some credits or demonstrate a certain level of competence in subjects
Oral history transcript, Truman Fawcett and Wilma Green Fawcett, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to prove my cl~edits in San Marcos. And, like I graduated from San Marcos [High School] and then went into college from there. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, H.M. Greene, interview 1 (I), 1/21/1965, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • : All the j'amily, good friends. 112."5. ... I in San Marcos. ~aught His father, mother and I were all all the brothers and sisters at one time or another. He was the first to come to San Marcos. He came. The family finally moved over. father
  • First meeting LBJ; Johnson family in San Marcos; physical impressions of LBJ; LBJ in college; instinct for leadership; class in government; Henry Kyle; LBJ’s philosophy of government; organizational ability; origin’s of LBJ’s philosophy; trip
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1b (I), 4/29/1986, by Walter Richter (Item)
  • . We'll get to that maybe individually later on. I can think of two or three. R: As I said this is very informal and we haven't--while Horace at our annual meeting the other night in San Marcos stimulated a lot of discussion about the old timers
Oral history transcript, Clarence S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with different classes as well as your own. Then I finished high school in Johnson City in 1925. My first year in college was at Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos in 1925 and 1926. The following year I went to the University of Texas, spent
  • poker with LBJ; church attendance in Johnson City; LBJ's mother, Rebekah Baines Johnson; LBJ becoming more driven in college; LBJ's affinity for people; Ben Crider's support for LBJ; the Pirtle House in San Marcos; Southwest Texas State Teachers' College
Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was doing, stuff like that. G: Okay. Did you go to San Marcos? W: No. I didn't graduate. I married before I-- (Laughter) G: Of course you did. But you never started to San Marcos, is that right? W: No, I didn't start. G: I see. Of course, LBJ didn't
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh cooperation of Marcos to have it appear as Marcos' suggestion
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Georgetown, San Marcos, and an address in Houston to the Independent Petroleum Association. And then a big important thing, the JeffersonJackson Day Dinner in Oklahoma City for Senator [Robert] Kerr and Senator [Mike] Monroney. But he did not get away from
  • Senate Preparedness Subcommittee work trying to control spending and corruption; Luci's early interest in religion; the tidelands issue; the possibility of Dwight Eisenhower running for president; returning to visit San Marcos with LBJ; growing media
Oral history transcript, Louise Casparis Edwards, interview 1 (I), 1/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with other schools? E: Yes. Yes. We had our county try out in Blanco. won. Georgia [Cammack Edgeworth] and I were debating that night, and Lyndon and John Dollahite, and they won. Marcos for the district meet. Both boys and girls And then we went
  • ; the Johnsons' economic situation; LBJ in school; debating; LBJ's friends; LBJ working on highway; San Marcos period; later years
Oral history transcript, Georgia Cammack Edgeworth, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was kind of dynamic when he was [young]. I believe, I could be wrong in this, but I believe maybe he even debated at San Marcos after he went down there to school. G: He did. E: Yes, I thought so. I think he debated with the Sledge [?] boy down
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: HILLARD DEASON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Deason's residence, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with the period in which you were in San Antonio and I guess he was at Cotulla, or still at San Marcos perhaps. D
Oral history transcript, Levette J. (Joe) Berry, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was a public school superintendent, and the first twelve years of my life we lived in small towns northeast and west of Dallas . Then we moved to San Marcos when I was twelve, and I went through high school and college there . was only twenty, After I
Oral history transcript, Elmer Graham, interview 1 (I), 4/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh GOLDMA..~ April, 1965 I: Reverend Graham, when did you first meet the President? G: I met the President in about 1926 or 1927. I was in college about 2 or 3 years ahead of him. I: This was in San Marcos? G: Yes. I