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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
- .
several times.
As a matter of fact Kintner was very helpful
I'd just put through a call to Bob if I was in search
of some information.
He was always very helpful and if he didn't have
the answer he could certainly tell me where to get it.
F:
Kintner
- with
companies--potential advertisers.
F:
He was seeking national advertisers?
W:
Both local and national.
Most national advertisers have local interests
in the Texas area.
F:
And so he was hoping to work through the horne office to induce local people
- there was nothing there for me to do. The boss said, "I
can send you to Panama, and you can catch up with them or better
still, why don't you stay here and start a nucleus of a new outfit
which we hope to have here, because we have this big lab."
to stay.
So I
- , and they kind of like a dead fish's
tail shook hands with me.
do it.
Springs.
I tried to provoke conversation and couldn't
Finally I said, "Well, I think I'm going on up to Sulphur
I'm running for Congress, I hope you remember that, and I
hope you'll vote
- the table and hope that it goes by.
at the time.
I was inclined to speak out myself.
I thought it was wrong
The whole thing, you
know, was developed by these two fellows that ran this Rampart Magazine
up here who were inclined to produce the sensational
