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Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • obvious that it wasn't old Lyndon anymore. He was a fascinating man. Once when I was on the News, and then I came over here--and his great friends were here on the Dallas Times Herald: Mr. Tom Gooch and Mr. Edwin Kiest, Jim Chambers, who's still
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and all--But somewhere I think the story will somehow come out that it was not true. Now, I was in Dallas the night it occurred. The Washington representative of the Times-Herald telephoned Mr. Felix McKnight of the Times-Herald and said Mr. McKnight
Oral history transcript, Anthony Buford, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of--was it the Dallas News? G: Well, or the Times Herald. B: Times Herald, yes, Times Herald. G: Tom Clark was there, too, I think. 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • myself. I did check I wrote a letter I remember it was at a time when Peter Marshall was quite a popular and widely heralded minister. He would have been in that period somewhat like Billy Graham today. And Mrs. Peter Marshall had come to Dallas
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --to practice law; ran for the legislature from Dallas County that year and was elected. F: Was that Robert Storey? S: Yes. R. G. Storey. And served in the legislature for three terms through 1958, and I also practiced law at that same time. Ran
  • Biographical information; First association with LBJ, 1965 state convention; 1960 pre-convention boom for LBJ for President; Bruce Alger race; Dallas County Chairman; JFK-LBJ trip to Dallas-Ft. Worth; religious issue; contributions; Dead man’s ad
Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • been allowed to develop as any single agency or person in the community. ary paper. The Dallas News was still at that time a very reaction- They were still pulling Franklin Roosevelt out of his grave to rattle him across the stage whenever necessary
  • ; 7th Avenue wholesalers; Dallas Morning News’ notorious advertisement; Bruce Alger; re-establishing Dallas as a good place to live and work; Bronze Abstract Wall commissioned by Dallas Public Library; problem with having an official designer; Adele
Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to the newspapers that he was there during this incident, Margaret Mayer ofthe Dallas Times Herald, the reporter, not only saw him there but she had asked her photographer that was with her to take a picture of him standing on the curb in front of the Adolphus Hotel
Oral history transcript, Harvey O. Payne, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • : "He is the goddam lose-iest boy I ever say!" And another incident in Dallas County, a companion of mine and a newspaper man, a man from the Dallas Times-Herald, and I met Mr. Johnson. Mrs. Johnson with us, too. We had We met him at a small air
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • might say that Felix McKnight switched over from the Dallas Morning News to the Dallas Times Herald later on, because the man at the Dallas Times Herald, who was named [Tom] Gooch, I believe it was, hired him then. I don't know what Felix is doing now
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that commented on the national scene and that brought me to ~Iashington every now and then. F: What was that magazine? OM: Texas Heekly in Dallas, edited by Peter Molyneaux. I took two years' time out in 1935 and 1936 to head up the press publicityand
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , primarily because, among many other things, during the war when the Dallas Times Herald was about to run out of paper, couldn't publish, Johnson showed up with Tom Gooch at the Priority War Production Board and made a pitch for them being given some paper
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and graduated from high school at Brownwood in 1920. the University of Texas from 1921 to 1928. practice of law in Dallas, Texas. I attended In 1931 I commenced the During that time I served in the 36th Infantry Division of the Texas National Guard
Oral history transcript, Sarah T. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . It was completely confined to Dallas. F: But not confined to women this time? H: Oh, no. I spoke a great many times. I debated with the Republican campaigners and spoke alone at rallies. F: Who contacted you in this case to-- How did you get to be cochairman
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Was it Sam? No, it wasn't Sam, it was Sam's brother [it comes to me now, Alex] who was on the Dallas Times Herald and he and I usually rode together . And in those days--Horace Busby rode with me quite a bit--he was working for the Vice President, the Senator
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • sure would remember. But at any rate, when he went out on the road the first time I was assigned to go with him. On most of these trips out into the district he would leave early in the morning, make several towns and come back that night
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • service officer could give you. There was another man there named Mac Kilduff who, as you know, was the only press officer from the White House at Dallas at the time of the assassination, and who flew back on the plane. He gained a lot of visibility
Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Herald-Tribune for him, which was in great financial difficulty under the Reids in those days, but finally Jock Whitney took it off their hands. But it had been for sale for a long time before Jock Whitney bought it. But Jack Kennedy ,, did not show
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • primary--because time was such a tremendous factor--began with a concentration on the big cities, after he had been up here. You had kind of a first--I remember particularly at Dallas, we went to Irving and some other places like this. It was tacit
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: IRVING L. GOLDBERG INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Judge Goldberg's office, Federal Courthouse, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 MG: Judge, President Johnson I guess had already been overseas--he went in 1942--by the time you went
  • ; LBJ’s concern with absenteeism in shipyards during WWII; LBJ’s supervisory qualities and relations with staff members; Goldberg’s impression of Dallas as a Republican stronghold; LBJ’s lack of supporters in Dallas; LBJ as a friend.
Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • we call Long News Service which is an independent Capitol News Service. We correspond for eighteen daily newspapers in Texas. Among them the San Antonio Light, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Beaumont Enterprise, EI Paso Herald-Post, Texarkana
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Stevenson gaffes? B: No. Now we didn't have any of the--we had the Dallas Times Herald, which was an old deal. We had the support of the Houston Post. G: Were the writers themselves more likely to be supportive than the publishers and editors? B
Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in Dallas, grade schools I didn't get a formal college education; however, as I relate through here, you will see that I spent quite a bit of time in different schools. I went to work in the pplice department May 1,1936. I worked as a patrolman first. M
  • Biographical information; Dallas police department career and military service in the Air Force; arrangements for dignitary visits to Dallas; description of the parade and arrangements for JFK's visit; assassination; trip to the airport
Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , then, as the head of the Dallas News Bureau there in 1944? H: Yes. F: And stayed until 1960. H: Yes. F: All right. H: Well, as I recall, it was the year he ran for the Senate the When did you first meet Lyndon Johnson? first time. F: Against Pappy [We
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • came down here, and I worked for the Dallas News as a kind of part-time employee in Austin and worked for United Press on the same basis. I graduated in 1935. United Press made me a correspondent. Then I went to Dallas News in 1942 and worked for them
  • declining health; Morehead's relationship with Elliott Roosevelt; Coke Stevenson's relationship with the press; O'Daniel's relationship with the press and his political experience; controversies surrounding LBJ's 1941 and 1948 elections; the Dallas Morning
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a secret understanding with the CIO [Congress of Industrial Organizations]. Lyndon spent a lot of time in Dallas. I went to a tea there. I believe that was the time that Mrs. Barefoot Sanders, Jan Sanders, gave one for us, and Tom Clark's--I cannot remember
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and walked down to Lyndon's place and when I got there Felix McKnight of the Dallas Times Herald. stepped out, said, "How do you do?" And I shook hands with him and I said, "What are you people doing down here?" He said, "Jack Kennedy's in there. We're
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • they were trying to cram through a heck of a lot of bills in this time and couldn't leave. We set out to go to about six stops in Texas, beginning in Houston, in Dallas, Wichita Falls, Odessa­ Midland, El Paso, winding up at the ranch. Do you want some
Oral history transcript, Helen Thomas, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1977, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • had rushed to the office and then everything [pointed] in that direction, but they still said, "Go pack, and go to Dallas." But by the time I got to the airport, it was all over. F: How about the story from the Dallas standpoint from Chuck Roberts
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVI EWEE: THOMAS G. HICKER INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Wickerls office, Washington Bureau, New York Times Tape 1 of 1 F: First of all, I know you came out of Hamlet, North Carolina, which I think is a very happy place to have been born
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and activated the automatic telegraph wire printers--we called them Morkrums. Our political hero at the time was James V. Allred, then attorney general, later to be governor, federal judge, and a sometime candidate for the U.S. Senate. Governor Allred's
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the Washington Star or the Washington Post or the New York Times, or in those days the New York Herald Tribune, the story hadn't been published with LBJ. I should add one other paper, the Austin-Statesman, or, you know, the Dallas News or the Dallas Times-Herald
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at all before you came to Washington? E: I did not. Of course, I knew who Lyndon was. I had been working on the Dallas Times Herald when this vacancy occurred with the death of Congressman [James] Buchanan in Austin. I knew about Lyndon Johnson's
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • before and that was that a local photographer was riding in the White House car. We had picked up a Dallas Times [Herald] photographer in Washington and, because he had been with us all the time, he rode in our car rather than in the local still car
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • politics. I'll try to talk very freely, and I suspect that some of the comments that I would make negatively about Texas politics Mr. Johnson himself would agree with. I'm sure there are times when he suffered from the very pathology that I went
Oral history transcript, Victor Jaeggli, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the next time I saw Lyndon he had made a trip up to Dallas, and he was inspecting some of the work up there. G: Was he pleased with it? J: Yes, he was. He, of course, always saw some things that should be done better. He was very meticulous about what
  • ; work done to complete a roadside park near Dallas; Passamaquaddy Bay development projects; NYA residence centers; Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary McLeod Bethune visiting Texas NYA projects; the success of Texas NYA projects; NYA work on the Little Chapel
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with Amon Carter, with Sid Richardson, back in 1940 and even before, and with Tom Gooch of the Dallas Times Herald. We knew the Hearst people quite well, Dick Berlin who was then a relatively young man but high up in the councils of the Hearst corporation
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXII -- 22 recopy them in their own newspapers. The Dallas Times-Herald with Tom Gooch and Albert Jackson at the helm, it was mightily helpful. We've had it both ways, with the press for us and the press against us, and as Lyndon
Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on cross-country when we were going, but otherwise it ran two, three, four hours a day. But on the cross-country I have eight here one time. Well, from Dallas to Paducah, Kentucky that one day there was eight hours. You know, eight hours in this thing
Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at the corporation, Neil Greensides. were in the pot. come to mind. There may have been more. These were names that These are the ones that Nothing was done in this period of time, and of course then the tragedy of Dallas happened and things were in a complete