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Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that the Dallas Morning News carried which is notorious by now. was carried and the Dallas News published it. It They apologized for the fact that it was published, saying everybody was out to lunch when the ad came in. But there was unquestionably
  • ; 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, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • -- I -- 20 most of, at least the majority of, the releases they were sending in to the Dallas News Bureau were afternoon releases. the morning paper and I didn't like that. objecting to it. better break. I was on So I wrote him a letter I said I wish
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for the Senate. G: That was 1941. M: Yes. That was the last year that I worked for the Associated Press before joining the Dallas Morning News. It was quite a campaign. He was sort of an uptight man, particularly during campaign periods, and that's when
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • we went after that, whether it happened to be in Texas or whether it was in New York or what not, that this incident in Dallas had had a great impact on the election proceedings to the extent that those that were dedicated Democrats
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- X -- 2 G: You may have, but I'm not sure. J: Well, let me tell this, because it kind of fits in. Barry Bishop used to work for the Dallas Morning News in Mexico--that's a Republican paper, you
Oral history transcript, Sarah T. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • office and we have about 175,000 members. I felt as if they assisted a great deal. F: How were you notified of the appointment? H: The Dallas Morning News came out with the statement of who had been appointed in Texas--the four judges. The one
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that we got to the automobile the news was on the radio that the President was dead. It was a terrific shock. I belong to the Dallas Country Club and it's noted for its conservative members. I often kid them out there that Pat, the colored locker boy
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /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
Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was a hundred-hour inspection--those inspections were quite involved. G: The Dallas Morning News did a piece at the time saying that you were going back to where you only worked five days a week. C: Yes. Who knows? We work long hours at Sikorsky, too
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • paper Thursday, and they had planned their demonstration at the Adolphus Friday for all week long. F: Before they ever saw the ad? S: Before they ever saw the ad. So that was just a cover. I mean, the Dallas News turned down the ad, because nobody
  • 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, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the race to Lyndon Johnson, the Dallas Morning News. Then as the votes 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
Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Bill I really For the Dallas Morning News , I can't person with a particular candidate but probably like Allen Duckworth, who was of course I would say the prime political correspondent for the Dallas Morning News , probably Dawson Duncan to some
Oral history transcript, Harvey O. Payne, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • day. Mr. Johnson wanted to cover every community in Dallas County if he could, not by helicopter, but by automobile. We were staying at the Adolphus Hotel and as prior arranged, I met Mr. Johnson at 5:30 in the morning in the lobby of the Adolphus
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, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • donated by various dealers. G: Really? Were they new cars? N: Yes. There were--in fact, one morning we were following one of the other cars. One of the young guys who was going to be the drummer as it were, he passed us, and I had LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • from and where were you born, that sort of thing. S: I was born in a little teeny tiny town called West, Texas, but we moved to Dallas when I was very young, so I remember very little about West. It was close to Waco. I remember one time--I don't
  • [For interview 1 and 2] Biographical information; St. Mary’s in Dallas; classes; faculty; Aunt Effie; activities; Lady Bird’s family; Caddo Lake; University of Texas life; friends; leaving college; LBJ; Selden’s marriage.
Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . S: It hurt him when someone criticized a friend. I'll give an example. I got up one morning and then read a paper, and somebody had jumped all over me. And he called me. "Well," he said, "you know, it's another example of somebody that supports me
  • people; the 1956 Texas State Democratic conventions; Shivers' offer of support to Price Daniel as his successor as governor; J. J. "Jake" Pickle in Daniel's campaign; the precinct and county Democratic convention in Dallas in May 1952; the power
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the state and he went into the towns and shook hands around the square. It was quite maddening to Johnson, because the stories in the leading Texas newspapers, particularly the Dallas [Morning] News stories, that being the paper that most Texas politicians
Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • times I would be--many times Paul Glynn or Ken Gaddis would be in there arranging his clothes and sometimes the butler would have brought in his breakfast . But generally he'd be propped up with television sets going to see the early morning news
Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVInJEE: ROBERT J. SJviITH I NTERV I E~JER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Smith's office, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 2 G: Let's start with your background, Mr. Smith. You were born in Tennessee, is that right? S: That's right. Born in Knox County
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at every stop you had the press wanting to know how big the crowd was, and these little towns didn't have anybody who knew. So, by George, I went around and I counted every soul there and the Dallas [Morning] News asked me 11 LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /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
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of him was] reading in the Dallas [Morning] News that he had been appointed NYA director for Texas. It surprised me a bit because a few weeks or a few days before I had read that a fellow from Port Arthur or Corpus [Christi] somewhere down there, had
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, Ashton Gonella, interview 3 (III), 11/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there were eighteen new Democratic senators and he [LBJ] had looked in the paper and none of us had realized it, but at breakfast Sunday morning he announced that twelve of them were Catholics and that he wanted to find out something about the Catholic
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at Lyndon Johnson individually.But it did create a great deal of feeling. I had occasion to go to Dallas, not for quite a while after, and I also remember when I went down there for the ground-breaking ceremony for the new arena. The mayor and some of his
  • How John F. Kennedy's (JFK) assassination affected the reputation of Dallas and Texas; the emotional toll of JFK's and Robert Kennedy's (RFK) deaths on O'Brien; being asked to identify the missal that was used when Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) took his oath
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • in Dallas early in the morning because Secretary Symington was in Dallas, and Congressman Johnson had to make his final arrangements with Secretary Symington about this matter. on to Dallas. So that was the reason we had to go And I guess you are right, we
Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • reporter many years ago. When I was in Swathmore, Pennsylvania, I worked for the Philadelphia papers part time, but I drifted into political reporting when I was here in Washington. F: By the time the New Deal came on, you were established as a syndicated
  • news; suppression of news; RFK never broke with McCarthy; characterization of McCarthy; LBJ as VP; LBJ’s effectiveness as an ambassador; JFK assassination; dinner with the Johnsons; press disenchantment with LBJ; press secretaries; RFK; oil interests
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • brother was going to school with me because he cried every morning when I left, and the teacher said let him come along. But that was before Lady Bird's brothers came home, and it was my first memory of Miss Minnie. Later, at the end of the school term
  • Minnie Lee Pattillo Taylor, Lady Bird Johnson's mother; Mrs. Taylor's appearance and personality; the Brick House; Lady Bird Johnson's Aunt Effie; Lady Bird attending St. Mary's College in Dallas; the Taylor family when Lady Bird was very young; Mr
Oral history transcript, William F. Billings, interview 1 (I), 5/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://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, Pat Adelman, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the ladies ready-to-wear department at Goldstein-Migel Company. After that I decided I wanted to travel, so I picked up a dress line out of Dallas, which was Justin McCarthy line of dresses and did some traveling there. M: What did you do, travel all over