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Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and when I went out, obviously, I talked to a lot of old friends and new friends in the press business, and that was a major gripe. My recollection is that they were sending it through the telegraph office. I don't know which one, whether it was IT&T
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the first combat troops to Vietnam, the marines, doing this and the instructions and he was explaining it, why he was that he had given these marines and so on . Well, it was very clear to me at the point that I was going back to daily journalism
Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , I haven't had a hot shower in two weeks." They were talking about the fact that the people they were advising would not listen to their advice, that they were deliberately telegraphing their attacks so that the other side could get away
Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Resolution. F: Right. G: None of us knew, of course, that the Tonkin Resolution was spurious. And you're familiar, of course, with the telegraph that was suppressed from Captain Herrick of the r·laddox. If that telegraph LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh DUTTON -- I -- 13 anything like that he telegraphed the punch through the papers, which you know is not uncommon
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • information. A couple of times when they closed down the telegraph machine, I'd let the press file limited copy through embassy channels to Washington. There's no way you can gild that lily and there's no sense in trying. In fact, if anything
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • didn't understand English or something because I caught him right on, I mean I learned about it through the channels. The grapevine works better than telegraph lines sometimes. to tell him to come over there. says. So I had I said, "This order means
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that they were going on an operation. The B-52 strikes were telegraphed ahead for weeks due to the international air space regulations. Finally they were able to get that under control, not totally, even in the final days, but at least we did some good. G