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Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that the paper kind of decided-- F: That's when Sellers ran against Rainey and Coke Stevenson. K: Not, it wasn't against Stevenson--Jester. F: Jester, right. K: In fact, they were all trying to get Coke to put in a word for them. F: That's right. K

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 I sat in some backyard sessions on that, too, and some of his friends advised him that it would be too difficult; said Coke Stevenson had been a very popular Governor and Coke had already announced that he was running

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, the floor leader of the loyal Democrats supporting Lyndon Johnson, called me at Nashville the day before and said he wanted me to come down and vote. He thought it was going to be a close vote, and he knew that I had already complained about [Coke

: Before we get off the subject, there was some talk of the fact that certainly Mr. Johnson would have been more preferable to the Truman Administration than Coke Stevenson would have been. And, of course, the case did go to the Supreme Court. J: Yes. M
; Coke Stevenson; involvement in Washington litigation while LBJ was Senator; the Leland Olds case and the Texas oil industry; Allan Shivers, Adlai Stevenson and Sam Rayburn in the 1952 election; getting the Adlai E. Stevenson/John J. Sparkman Democratic

; and it seemed to me weeks before we knew the outcome. only a couple of days. rIm sure it was But first one return would come in, and former Governor Stevenson would be ahead; the next return would come in, and Congressman Johnson would be ahead

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