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Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and the interviewer is Joe B . Frantz. Mr . Boatner, first of all, tell us a little bit about your own background and how you came to this spot in your life . B: My background is that of a newspaperman and my newspaper was the Fort Worth Star Telegram . I
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : June 1, 1976 INTERVIEWEE : CHARLES BOATNER INTERVIEWER : MICHAEL L . GILLETTE PLACE : Mr . Boatner's office in Fort Worth, Texas Tape 1 of 1 B: You have asked that I give you a thumbnail sketch of Lyndon Johnson . I hope it's a thumbnail
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • gone there- -she'd been visiting in Fort Worth ­ -she'd gone down with my wife and myself ; I was covering it for the Star-Telegram, and I felt that I knew the speech pretty well so--the main points of the speech . I was sitting back in the crowd
Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Kennedy -- I -- 19 K: --gained nothing by the gesture. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram remarked editorially that they achieved nothing except to mar the reputation of Fort Worth and its hospitality. The incident was referred
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the [Fort Worth] Star Telegram. Finally, when the convention shut down, I went over to the Star Telegram and wrote over there, and got back to the hotel--was I in the Texas? I guess I was. Duckworth, who had connections with the Stevenson people that I
  • 1946 campaign; 1948 Senate campaign and the Fort Worth Democratic Convention; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; social gatherings at the Johnsons' Washington home; LBJ and the press; 1954 Senate campaign
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • by 87 votes. Governor LCok~j Stevenson challenged the vote in court, and the courts were sustaining Lyndon Johnson. about that time, we had the state convention in Fort Worth. in September of 1948. But This was And of course one of the functions
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, 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, 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, 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, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • County--Russellville. It's in the Arkansas River Valley halfway between Little Rock and Fort Smith. We had a good-sized colored population~ I would suppose about twenty per cent of our people in the town were black. challenge~ ism there. And it had
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • at the end of my sophmore year; became a star practically overnight . . . then left the theater to become a singer. I sang in opera about two years after I started to study, in Europe and later a number of times in the United States. In 1929, when in Europe
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • people talking to Justice Black. on that. I simply helped with the brief that was submitted. I wasn't in In later life I have had fun looking back at a telegram which my secretary just luckily found, dated October 1, 1948 from Austin, Texas, sent
Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the House and later became his partner in running the Congress. F: Well, you served three presidents in a row in there, regardless of party, and Johnson of course had a star that was rising all the time. When you stayed over and assisted Mr. Truman's
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was: "You will be named as a star witness to the political trial in Riom, which will bring your past husband into the trial as one of the first people who had lent or given money, bribed, if you want to use the word, the French government
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on the campaign from the standpoint of the opposition. it anywhere for some reason. I never did submit I ran across it in some files recently. It gives a pretty detailed picture of the campaign. B: That would be worth M: Yes. keeping~- In fact I think I
Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Now this was not quite the same as the situation with respect to President Truman~ because President Eisenhower, being also a five-star general, had a number of things of this kind available to him in that capacity as well 8: 0 To move into other
Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • married, and we went to the wedding. I got this telegram. That's the first I knew about it, that I was appointed delegate to the United Nations. It was a complete surprise to me, because I didn't even know they were talking about me. Of course the FBI
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : --young veterans in uniform, with enough battle stars to reach from hell to breakfast. When the opposition saw that, they just folded. My recollection is that KVET got their construction permit without· a hearing, and KTBC then had good, tough
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in East Texas. East Texas was tremendously anti- Roosevelt, I don't know why. But that hurt. I think the biggest thing they did to help was to see that he had some campaign money. G: I understand that they would also provide him with telegrams
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • /oh 24 out of line. He authorized Joe Martin to say that he'd be available as a candidate for the Presidency against Truman. And that infuriated Truman so that he sent him a telegram in the middle of the night, "You are fired." MacArthur
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • know which--to be in Dallas, and he wanted me to meet him. So when I got the telegram from him from Washington that he was on his way to Texas by train, to meet him in Dallas at the Katy Station, I talked to my professors. professors, taking five
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)