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  • & speeches; LBJ works hard with little rest; Johnsons to Democratic fundraiser that night; Lynda Robb relays news that Martin Luther King has been shot & died; LBJ calls Coretta Scott King & makes televised speech; evening plans cancelled & Hawaii trip
  • paper, in the Post. F: They had this folk opera out there. P: Yes. And two of the most prominent people in connection with it were born in Texarkana. F: I was going to say this Scott Joplin came out of there. P: He was born there. And this black
  • civil rights vote. precisely the details. I've forgotten But it was, I remember, Hugh Scott [of Pennsyl vania that] brought it up. The idea was to embarrass the new Democratic leadership. Johnson was instrumental in quickly and efficiently moving