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Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in most of that activity. I was a I was heavily Close to Dr. Martin Luther King --closely associated with all the national civil rights leaders. B: What was your opinion of the Justice Department's, and the Kennedy Administration generally, handling
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • McCormack' s office that he didn't realize that the people were being prbse-· cuted, although it had been a matter of conside rable publici ty in all of the newspap ers for some weeks, maybe even months at that time; and that he didn't want them prosecu ted
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Plus newspape rme n. P: --and news p apermen~ t han anybody in Texas. as many as anybody, and maybe more . At that time I knew fully I had been to all kinds of conventions and through all sorts of election s, and I had made some dear friends
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • !.> and who was my very c1oses t associate-­ I had not known him before I went to the White House, but we had come to be very congenial and friendly during the time I was there, so being with him accentuated it. This was really a traumatic experience
  • to the UN relating to Texas; story of Mrs. Hays being robbed; handling church-state relations for LBJ; selected associate director of the Community Relations Service; Governor Faubus; regrets the Southern Manifesto; Faubus helps unseat Hays in the election