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- DISCUSSION OF PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE JFK ASSASSINATION AND OF TEXAS STATE INVESTIGATION OF ASSASSINATION; STOREY MENTIONS DALLAS MORNING NEWS STORY ON COMMISSION, MENTIONS HIS WORK ON WORLD PEACE THROUGH LAW AND OFFERS HELP ON CIVIL
- to the military. Then they included the breakfast visit in Ft. Worth. I believe that Ft. Worth decided for the Chamber of Commerce to finance and host the breakfast that morning. sold. Then in Dallas there were to be no tickets In other words
- get them confused. But one time, 1 remember, we were probably in Dallas in the morning, and ..../e went to Denton or Deni son, and we went to the Tyl er Rose Festival, and then we changed into evening clothes in the plane and went to the opening
- Biographical information; how they came to Washington; meeting the Johnsons; Dick Kleberg; Texas State Society; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s early influence in Washington; gaining support for LBJ in Dallas; 1960 convention; women’s tea party tours
Folder, "Garrison Investigation, New Orleans, 1967-1968," Papers of John B. Connally, Box 324
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- . 10017, 697•5100 WNBC-TV and NBC Network DATE January 31. \968 - 11:30 CITY PM New York INTERVIEWWITH JIM GARRISON JOHNNYCARSON: Mz-. Garrison, accepting the invitation. I thlmk youAfor coming and And I hope I did not misstate a morn-antago
- Folder, "Garrison Investigation, New Orleans, 1967-1968," Papers of John B. Connally, Box 324
- feeling in Texas. The very fact that one of the leading businessmen in Dallas throughout that campaign bought radio time. He himself would come on the air I think every morning at 6:30; and anybody, if there be such as a tape of that, it would
- /show/loh/oh 15 H: His main interest was in New York politics. Let me inject this into it. When we appeared for our hearing before the Senate Labor and Welfare Committee--that was about 9:30 or 10 in the morning. When we were excused from
- it came to his attention, and they [the Johnsons] asked my wife and I if we'd go to New York and join them for dinner. flattered of course. My wife was in Texas. I was very They asked if we'd fly with the President, so Helen flew up from Dallas
- was get on the telephone and say, Come on out here," and that's how the Dallas News scooped the Times-Herald on that story. F: Did you do a lot of interviewing in this investigation, or did you mainly take the facts that the police and the FBI had
- was sworn in Dallas, because I was on Air Force One when he was sworn in. Up to that point, I had only known him as a man I covered from a distance. Working in Ohio I had written many stories for my news program about Lyndon Johnson, this whirling dervish
- the following :morning. Well, after Stevenson lost in the co:m:mittee by one vote, he announced that he was going to take the contest to the floor of the convention the following day. He had lots of support, because at that time [Strom] Thurmond
- and 1960 campaigns; Democratic National Committeeman; Los Angeles Democratic Convention; JFK’s meeting with Houston ministers; LBJ’s running for Senate and VP; LBJ relationship with John Connally; LBJ as VP; reasons for the 1963 Dallas trip; wrote letters
- /oh 6 some shooting in Dallas near the President." I told that to Julian Goodman and we both jumped up and ran down here. I ran to the little news studio, which we had set up for emergencies and just walked in. The red light was on and I
- Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
- of this deal of telling my boss that I could go out there and really get a good story, maybe even an interview, was pretty big stuff for me. radio we had morning newscasts and noon newscast. new~casts Well, the noon news was approaching the Majority Leader
- with the 1941 campaign was four or five days after the election and when the Texas Election Bureau made another late return. F: It looked as if he had won, didn't it? K: It looked that way long enough that, as I remember, the Dallas [Morning] News
- had an opportunity to ride with him up to Hyannis Port. So I got on the plane. He had a man from Georgetown and he had [Allen] Duckworth from the Dallas [Morning] News. Most of the agencies preferred to have their people at the various points to make
- ; the Brazos River Authority; LBJ makes a last visit to Temple, Texas; at the Dallas Trade Mart with Storey Stemmons during the JFK assassination; LBJ is faithful to his friends; investigating the M-16 rifle; observing the Tet Offensive; Ted Connell; the press
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh May 23, 1969 M: Let me identify the tape, first of all. F. Billings. This is an interview with Mr. William I am in his offices in Dallas, Texas in the Fidelity Union Tower. The date is May 23, 1969 and it's 1 0 : 1 0
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- . Is this background information all correct? W: It is all correct. It is true that I was executive assistant to the President of Lone Star Steel, but I officed in Dallas although our home was in Daingerfield. P: When did you first meet Lyndon Johnson and what were
- , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: IRVING GOLDBERG INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Judge Goldberg's office in Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Judge, tell us something about your background. Where you are from, and how you got to this point of being a circuit
- ; 1956 and 1960 Democratic Conventions; Walter Jenkins; Goldberg suggesting that LBJ take the oath of office in Dallas from Judge Sarah Hughes after the JFK assassination; appointment to Court of Appeals; Court of Appeals procedures from 1966-1969
- . But we were looking for signs of hostility Of course, there was the Dallas Morning News of that morning, with a very unfriendly ad. IIYankee. Go Home" and so forth. mostly friendly. We saw signs like, But the crowd at the airport was Kennedy
- there was nothing there for me to do. The boss said, "I can send you to Panama, and you can catch up with them or better still, why don't you stay here and start a nucleus of a new outfit which we hope to have here, because we have this big lab." to stay. So I
- in the morning, the majority leader and the minority leader always are at their desks. and the press comes in, and they hold a very brief news conference. So you could see him every day without fa i1 that way. F: Did Johnson show that procl ivity for getting
- Biographical information; 1960 “rump session;” Henry Cabot Lodge; campaign trips; Democratic ticket; Catholic issue; McCarthy censure; Watkins Committee; Vice Presidency; assassination; Connally-Yarborough feud; Dallas; funeral; Vietnam; press
- INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when
- the material, whereabout• before 6:30 p. m. on November 22, 1963. One exception relates to a etatement made by attorney G. Wray Gill, who aaid that he remembered the morning of November 22, 1963, because that morning a jury in New Orleans returned a verdict
- of the motorcade. C: Smitty was one of the four pool reporters, and I was serving as-the wire services have what they call a backup man. I was overnight editor for UP, and then I went out that morning to backup (I was in Dallas, I was stationed in Dallas
- willing to assign that man. R: Well, yes, certainly, because there's a rapport there, and when a new man comes in it's an advantage because there's an understanding there and and it makes it much easier for us to present our problems to the extent
- Review of career; dealing with various Presidents; assignment of agents; the Johnson family; effect of JFK assassination on duties; the Texas operation; Presidents traveling abroad; demonstrations; the Dallas tragedy; the Warren Commission's
- of January of the year after one's election. I was a candidate in 1934 in the new district, the Nineteenth District, that cut Marvin Jones' district about half in two. I ran along with--there were nine of us--no incumbent [who] ran for the position and I
- How he met LBJ in 1935; LBJ’s ambitions and absorption with politics; LBJ as a new Congressman and loss of the Appropriations Committee appointment to Albert Thomas; Sam Rayburn and the Board of Education; rural electrification; Civil Rights Act
- Truman Democrat and I am an Orval Faubus Democrat." F: And never the twain shall meet! H: That experience~ of course, is beside the point, except that it brings us together in this matter of geography. F: I think New York City is beginning to get
- you pack a bag and come with me, fly in my plane to Fort Worth and we can go on to Dallas the next day and then be with me in Austin for the dinner," and then I could fly back to Houston on Saturday morning when they went back to Washington. My
- me to New York to work at the United Nations and all those kinds of things. But that is how I got to know John Connally, whom Senator Connally wanted to run his re-election campaign. John Connally refused him. There was really very little doubt
Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- candidacy. lllid on Sundays during that campaign, a campaign which I'll never forget, we used to all assemble - all the members of l~. Symington's campaign team used to assemble at his home for breakfast on Sunday morning, to LBJ Presidential Library
- with my wife to upstate New York to visit her father and they started phoning me there--yes, that's right--they phoned me there several times. Also, he had the man from Dallas call me-- the man who had originally put me and Jenkins in touch with one
- Biographical information; first meeting LBJ; LBJ’s liberal and New Deal identification; Gerald Mann; President’s court packing plan; 1948 bitter campaign; Taft-Hartley Law; Horace; Busby; Roy Wade; Walter Jenkins; John Connally; Sam Houston Johnson
- like that and you could understand why he would want it off the record. I don't know if there were every any violations. F: I presume that when Sam Jr. fOllowed in your footsteps--well I know he went with the Dallas News in Washington--that President
- exceptions, beyond saying that they include four or five petty racketeers in Memphis, New Orleans, and elsewhere and one well placed protege of Carlos Marcellos in New Orleans. He comes to us, he says, primarily to assist iri ascertaining the truth, but also
- the new LBJ Presidential Library 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 Pollak -- I -- 2 Solicitor
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
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- and then they changed that title . Incidentally that job paid a new sum of $1800 . F: Oh, you got a big raise . M: So I got a raise . here . That was during the time that Mr . Johnson was Lyndon was here and he and Lady Bird were the office forces around here
- was advancing a trip that very day, in fact, for then-Vice President Johnson to New York. I was in New York with Secret Service agents for the big B'nai B'rith meeting at Madison LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD H. NELSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE· PLACE: Mr. Nelson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your association with the Peace Corps. How did you get involved with that? N: I had met Bill Moyers and Sarge
- and Kennedy’s staff; Diem’s assassination; Vietnam; trips to New York and Benelux region; LBJ as president; transition after assassination of JFK; the 1964 campaign; civil rights meeting with black leaders; LBJ’s ethics and relationship with staff; Walter
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- of country for about two and a half weeks. I went from Rome back to Washington; as I mentioned earlier, I arrived there the day of the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas. Then I went back via the Far East, stopped off and saw our embassy
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Beckworth -- I -- 16 any money . The Dallas News had a fairly good little article written by John King, whom I later knew and thought a lot of in Washington . About a year ago, I spoke to the real the house builders . ested
- : Where were you on assassination day? A: Having lunch in the White House Staff Mess. Walter Heller and most of the members of the cabinet were on that plane over the Pacific, and the news c a m e while we were at lunch. F: How did it come, just
- had been made, but Luci stayed overnight. to be there the next morning when we left quite early. Then we came back later Saturday after- noon, after we had left on Friday night. So we didn't know what to pay Luci, but Luci asked my wife what we