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Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of absence in '38 and got to know him but not to cover him. F: Were you working for the Star-Telegram then? K: I took a leave of absence. I was working for Ernest Thompson in his race for governor. F: In that famous campaign! K: And also Judge Cd tz
  • First association with LBJ; 1948 election; Star-Telegram’s campaign support; Preston Smith; Byron Utecht; George Parr; covering 1952 and 1956 Texas state conventions; LBJ’s response to an article by Kinch; Frankie Randolph; Mrs. Bentsen; Byron
Oral history transcript, Josh H. Groce, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the 1948 [state convention]? JG: Now, the 1948 one, let me see now, was that the Amarillo one or was it the Fort Worth one? G: It was Fort Worth. JG: Fort Worth. That's where the maelstrom struck. G: Did you work in Coke Stevenson's campaign though
  • defeating Coke Stevenson in the Democratic primary race; efforts to find a federal judge who would be more favorable to Coke Stevenson's civil rights; the Fort Worth hearing with Judge Whitfield Davidson; Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black's ruling on the 1948
Oral history transcript, Fred Korth, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • associated--and I was called over one afternoon early in the summer by Amon G. Carter, Sr., whose office at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram was practically across the street from my law office. He called me and said that he and Mr. Sid Richardson would like
Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and beloved Amon G . Carter, Sr ., president and owner of the Fort Worth Star Telegram . Being very intimate with � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
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, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • without the active support of the so-called Establishment in Fort Worth, including the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and its publisher who was Amon Carter. I didn't have that, but ran anyway, and undertook to make up for it in getting around over
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] apartment. Then he asked if he couldn't call Mr. and Mrs. North, and he did. Mr. North was editor of the [Fort Worth] Star Telegram at that time. came down. So they both Lyndon had been with Phil about two days before that in the South Pacific
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I remember working all night on that thing over at the [Fort Worth] Star-Telegram office and I know I wrote reams, because the fights were just multiple all over the place. You had fights over delegations, then you had fights over naming the nominees
Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the annual reunions because of being in the military. G: Is there anything else about LBJ and San Marcos, or LBJ and the White Stars that you feel is worth talking about? M: I really don't know. As I say, he was gone when I arrived and he never did come
  • Biographical information; San Marcos; College Star; White Stars; membership; purpose; LBJ as state NYA administrator; NYA public relations activities; staffers; structure of the NYA; projects; Herbert Henderson; working habits; later contacts
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • knew Lyndon Johnson, and they were for us, but they couldn't help us in the Texas campaign. Now the state reporters, with the exception of one man, Charlie Boatner of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, were all for Coke. They represented these other
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, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this is precisely what happened. Amon Carter, who was the publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Te7egram--was that the name of the paper? G: Yes. B: --was a very conservative man but had stuck his neck out consistently to be a Lyndon Johnson supporter and had
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, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to recount your reminiscences of that. D: Well, I'm sorry, I was not at the September convention in Fort Worth. The reason for that was that I was the lawyer for the steelworkers union and there was a big strike at the Lone Star Steel Company up in East
Oral history transcript, Ashbrook P. Bryant, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , they were piled in a great big pile. Who was the fellow who owned the Fort Worth Star-Telegram at that tine? G: Amon Carter. B: Amon Carter. Well, Amon Carter never permitted anybody to use the word tornado; it had to be a freak storm. I think Johnson
Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1979 INTERVIEWEE: CALVIN HAZLEWOOD INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Hazlewood's home, Fort Worth, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Hazlewood, let's start with your background. You're a native Texan? H: Oh, yes, yes. G: Can you briefly
Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was just in and out. M: You were doing much the same kind of work again? P: Yes, writing stuff, mostly for this paper. Then we were called on to rush up to Fort Worth one morning early to the state Democratic convention to be sure--you know, part
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • You see, they'd laid great plans for this roadside park between Dallas and Fort Worth. Lyndon had asked several of the district dir- ectors to come into Dallas, because we knew President Roosevelt was .. LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Roth’s childhood; meeting and interacting with LBJ at Southwest Texas (teachers’ college); White Stars organization; Professor Howard Mell Greene; Roth’s work for the NYA; relationship between the NYA and WPA; Senator Alvin Wirtz; President
Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on and everything. G: \-Jho were the reporters that generally covered him and that traveled with him in that campaign, do you remember? M: I'll try to remember a few. Robert Hicks [?J from the Fort Worth Star- Telegram, who was an extremely able political
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • contacting me here in Austin. most of the time, Mexico, you see. See, Mr. Kleberg was gone And Conrad Wirth, the top man of the National Park Service, was going to be in Fort Worth. They wanted, these men, the mayor, president of the chamber of commerce
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • introduced Mr. Johnson to the speaking that day. I met them over at Fort Worth, and of course I did not take charge of it until they got into F: They came in a motorcade from Fort Worth. P: Right. They stopped at Arlington and when they left Arlington, we
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , if sometimes with a degree of surprise. I do remember one that you could almost describe as an encounter when we finally got to Fort Worth to that gruesome several-day session there, but as August wore on, that was still in the offing. There was much talk about
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, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and never to be repeated facts of this campaign was that we had a great press. So much of the press was with us. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Murphey -- II -- 12 Byron Utecht, B-Y-R-O-N, Byron, U-T-E-C-H-T, Byron Utecht. He had been the political editor for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram for many years
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to show their love and affection jointly and went around together. Even [Ralph] Yarborough got in the act. some angle on that down there. It was kind of a happy meeting. I forgot I think they went to Fort Worth or were going to go to Fort Worth, too
Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • District at They may have tended to be a little more liberal than like the Dallas Morni ng News and the Houston Chronicle . certain if you go back and look at I'm almost the Dallas Morning News , Worth ] Star-Telegram , Chronicle --if you find out I'm
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : June 2, 1976 INTERVIEWEE : CHARLES BOATNER and TONY 7IEGLER INTERVIEWER : MICHAEL L . GILLETTE PLACE : Mr . Boatner's office in Fort Worth, Texas Tape 1 of 3 G: Okay . We're on again . Why don't we start with the kangaroo story that you had
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ?" was a personal thing. understood it. He Not "Are we going to I don't think it ever crossed his mind. It I think his whole attitude toward that--he never He never understood why this could happen. Dallas have this attitude toward him? around Fort Worth
Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that we were having a terrible time in Korea. And we got reports that the French were not using our aid properly, that it was sort of being stacked up and it would arrive and it wouldn't be opened and wouldn't be distributed to the fortes, and things
Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Home and School in Fort Worth, Texas, where we got our grammar school and high school education. F: By that time, I was going to Poly [Polytechnic High School] in Fort Worth when they had that famous football team. B: 1932. F: Right. B: I
Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • didn't want to stop you. CG: I'm guessing at, say, a week. How long did you stay down there? We stayed there until the Democratic Executive Committee met in Fort Worth. I don't remember that date. See, it met just ahead of the Democratic state
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wh ites ide 26 I Saturday night when they quit counting and had the big victory party and everything. Monday and Tuesday they found some extra boxes in Fort Worth that had been overlooked and they brought them in. Where
  • Circumstances of entering Southwest Texas Teachers College; job at college; impressions of the young LBJ; LBJ and the 1928 Democratic National Convention; Dr. Evans’ garage apartment; LBJ’s interest in the College Star; lack of money among students
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • through other people. G: That fall he did campaign some with Stevenson in Texas. J: Yes. G: Introduced him in Fort Worth and accompanied him to Dallas, San Antonio and Uvalde. Were you there? Did you go along on any of these? J: No. G
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • think the thing got to Davidson's court in Fort Worth. F: Yes, Whitfield Davidson. D: And my father, who was an excellent attorney, agreed with Davidson. I~hitfield Whitfield Davidson said the election ought to be run over again, the primary
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • as national committeewoman at that time. Then at the [September] state convention, which was held in Fort Worth that year, Price Daniel had been declared the winner by something over three thousand votes as the Democratic nominee for governor. So
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, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wasn't likely to make the front page. And I think the savvy correspondents out there knew this, where this was the case. There were cases of telegrams from home office, particularly in television, saying you haven't got enough battlefield material
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was head of one of the secret social organizations in the college down there, and Lyndon was head of the other . Stars and one was called Black Stars . One was called White I was such an outcast I didn't belong to either . I didn't know much about them