Discover Our Collections
Limit your search
Tag- Digital item (104)
- Alexander, Clifford L., 1933- (3)
- Christopher, Warren, 1925- (3)
- Holcomb, Luther J. (3)
- Birkhead, Kenneth Milton, 1914-1979 (2)
- Flott, Frederick (2)
- Pollak, Stephen J. (2)
- Temple, Larry E., 1935- (2)
- Valenti, Jack J. (Jack Joseph), 1921-2007 (2)
- Ackley, Gardner, 1915-1998 (1)
- Allen, Ivan (1)
- Baskin, Robert E. (1)
- Beckworth, Lindley (1)
- Beirne, Joseph A. (1)
- Bernbaum, Maurice M. (1)
- Billings, William F. (1)
- 1968-11-21 (2)
- 1969-05-13 (2)
- 1969-07-29 (2)
- 1969-08-04 (2)
- 1972-05-10 (2)
- 1972-08-11 (2)
- 1968-09-10 (1)
- 1968-09-23 (1)
- 1968-09-24 (1)
- 1968-10-10 (1)
- 1968-10-15 (1)
- 1968-10-31 (1)
- 1968-11-08 (1)
- 1968-11-15 (1)
- 1968-11-18 (1)
- Assassinations (104)
- JFK Assassination (44)
- Vietnam (29)
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 (16)
- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961 (14)
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 (12)
- 1960 campaign (11)
- Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985 (11)
- 1964 Campaign (8)
- Outer Space (8)
- Civil disorders (7)
- Crime and law enforcement (6)
- 1948 campaign (5)
- National Youth Administration (U.S.) (5)
- Great Society (4)
- Text (104)
- Oral history (104)
104 results
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- , which became known as the DOT. B: Was this immediately after the Dallas convention in the spring, or was this on after the national party convention? S: I don't remember that chronology. I think it was going on all the time-- the preliminary work
- 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
- have in their appointments becoming known ahead of time. In my case it did not get into the papers, but when they started the FBI investigation of me, in a city like Dallas, there did develop a little comment of "Wonder what's up? We got a call today
- for the FBI? S: Oh, I went in about the time of the beginning of World War II and stayed in till the end of the war. I returned to Dallas then to practice law. [vi: Did you join this firm that you're now in at that point? '. LBJ Presidential Library http
- . time really: They were contemporaries in Martin Winfrey and the other one. But, anyway, he was very, very well known in Texas politically, and nationally for that matter. His father at one time was police commissioner of Dallas and was very well
- ; 1956 and 1960 Democratic Conventions; Walter Jenkins; Goldberg suggesting that LBJ take the oath of office in Dallas from Judge Sarah Hughes after the JFK assassination; appointment to Court of Appeals; Court of Appeals procedures from 1966-1969
- for two offices ; and as the Democratic precinct chairman (which office he held at that time and I believe was automatically a member of the Dallas County Democratic Executive Committee, as such), asked us to file a lawsuit, and paid us to do so, as I
- has told me many, many times how pleased he was that I showed my colors_and joined with other loyal Democrats in support of Stevenson. I remember on one occasion we had a big meeting--it seems to me it was the fair grounds in Dallas-where Stevenson
- ugliness in Dallas toward Johnson [the Adolphus Hotel incident], when he'd been up there he'd been spit on one time in public, a mess. I just didn't see any point in having these big parades, but I wasn't consulted. And they had this parade and all
- ; 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
- and then stood in the center of the room and talked for about thirty or forty minutes and answered questions from those who were there about the political environment of that time. I must say I was quite struck by him, I thought he was strong, he was greatly
- Meeting LBJ; Albert Thomas; seeing his wife for the first time; events before and during the 1960 convention; LBJ accepting the vice-presidential nomination; LBJ as Senate Majority Leader; Valenti’s role in the 1960 convention; advertising
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
(Item)
- . Is this background information all correct? W: It is all correct. It is true that I was executive assistant to the President of Lone Star Steel, but I officed in Dallas although our home was in Daingerfield. P: When did you first meet Lyndon Johnson and what were
- INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when
- before, with all these journalistic heavyweights going around the country with the leader of the Soviet Union and covering the President of the United States at the same time. green to say the least, and I knew I was. I was It was fascinating
- covered him from time to time on journalistic events or happenings, for example I was at the 1960 convention, but always in a knot of reporters, and he didn't know my name from Adam's off ox. F: You weren't in Dallas when they had that famous spitting
- there to come to Washington in January of '68. Let's back up just a minute. You were in Dallas at the assassination, at the time of the assassination? C: That's right. B: Where were you when it happened. I know Merriman Smith was in one of the lead cars
- . 1970 INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES ROBERTS INTERVIEt1ER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Roberts office, Washington. D. C. I Tape 1 of 3 F: Mr. Roberts, you were in Dallas at the time of the assassination, November. 1963. R: Ri ght. F: Did you have any
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
(Item)
- thesis. That \'1as turned in in April, and that was about it for my senior year, really, except waiting around to take final orals. I had become friendly with Bill. At that time Bill had left the Vice President's staff, Mr. Johnson's staff, and gone
- major campaigns were concerned. Now I realize that you were connected a good part of that time with the government and therefore could not take part in the campaigns, but you were a long-time friend, which Mr. [Eric] Goldman already has on record
- , one of those grey silk tuxedos with black lapels. F: What was the occasion, a party? H: It was a radio/television correspondents dinner. something about, I~very Senator Anderson said damned time you bring one of these rich Texans up here
- seem to want the trip made itself, think it was necessary? Y: As I understood it, the trip was really pretty much against his wishes. I don't think he really wanted Kennedy to come to Texas at that time. F: It was part of a package to Texas
- people to his ranch rather than going v7here they are. I didn r t see much of him at all during that period of time. F: Where were you at the time of the assassination? Were you in Dallas? T: No. F: Getting ready for that evening? T: It was my
- ? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org H: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] He's an old-time newspaper man. the Dallas Ne\V's at one time. More on LBJ -9-Library oral histories: http
- know you've gone through it a million times and I have no intention of even seeking to go through it--are there any aspects of the Dallas tragedy in 1963 involving Secret Service operation that you think have been neglected in all the public comment
- Review of career; dealing with various Presidents; assignment of agents; the Johnson family; effect of JFK assassination on duties; the Texas operation; Presidents traveling abroad; demonstrations; the Dallas tragedy; the Warren Commission's
- in the run-offs. But I was with the Star-Telegram at the time. F: Did you make a regular thing out of taking leave during campaign years? K: No, I did that in '38; and then I foolishly did it in '46, worked for Grover Sellers, but I think after
- at that time, except kind of a good roads movement deal. F: They were just getting organized. P: That's right. F: I've done a little research in that and I know as late as 1921 when they built that Highway 75 from Dallas to Galveston, they still had
- was assassinated in Dallas? Do you know why he went to Texas? There's a lot of speculation about that. P: At that time, now, I was on the trip. parade. I was four cars behind I was in the caravan, or . Well, I was in the number four car, it was really about
Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
(Item)
- to President Truman. However, President Truman had made his commitment before Symington entered the race. So it was a very hard fought and vigorous campaign. At the time in question, Senator Johnson was in Missouri to specl( on behalf of Mr. Symington's
- ; criticism that LBJ didn’t devote enough time to party’s political machinery
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
(Item)
- of stature . We used to have men who were here that would do nothing but center their fire on certain aspects of a question . I remember one time when Hatton W . Sumners from Dallas, Texas was chairman of the Judiciary Committee . Just let the word be known
- /show/loh/oh Bolling -- I -- 2 M: And I suppose by that time Mr . Johnson was first minority leader and then majority leader after that . B: Well, actually--I'm not sure of my memory on this--but I probably was in the Board of Education before he
- there, and I decided that-F: Who was that» Thomason? T: Yes, Judge [R. Ewing] Thomason. So I went to El Paso and was sworn in in December of 1963. F: In November of 1963 ,'President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. were you at the time? Were you down
- , the same time, enjoying it--in national issues. And that was the only topic of conversation that year. While there, I felt that I should also learn a little bit about my home state, having been there eighteen years in high school~ and then four years
- and restrictions, however he wishes to make it; and that we will type a transcript, send it to him to edit, and at the same time, give him a legal form with which he can express his restrictions as he sees fit. The tape, t h e transcript, the legal release form
- the Truman Administration. At that time, I don't recall exactly the position that senator Johnson-F: I'll refresh you on that. November '48. He was a new Senator; he had been elected in Then, after '50 when Ernest McFarland was defeated, he was named
- , as you said, you became an assistant to the Solicitor General in the Justice Department. P: The first time I met Mr. Johnson is partially a further answer to your question. After I came into the Department of Justice, President Kennedy had a tradition