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- . Had some contacts. And of course having been with the [National] Youth .l\'cirrlinistration, he had had contacts and also having been secretary to Congressman [Richard] Kleberg, he had had some contact. But no wide acquaintance. He wasnft known
- -- I -- 5 G: Did you talk to any of those people afterwards? R: No, it was a day or two before we went into that, and that came about after Coke Stevenson and Frank Hamer and Kellis Dibrell--Dibrell was a former FBI agent--came down
- , I'm nat sure, after the run-off primary when I went down there. It was probably less than a week, but it's hard to recall, three or four or five days or something of the sort. He asked me and Kellis Dibrell and Jim Gardner, lawyers, in San Antonio
- of Webb County; details of 1948 Senate campaign; Kellis Dibrell and Jim Gardner; Clarence Martens; court proceedings regarding questionable votes; Justice Black’s decision; impressions of LBJ’s decisions to accept the nomination despite proof of ballot
Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
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- before they disappeared. $: That's right. G: Gardner and-- S: Jim Gardner and Kellis Dibrell saw them. LBJ Presidential Library http
- , they got around and they beat Jim Neal. Jim Neal, as I've always heard the story, died a very bitter and disillusioned old gentleman. Now, whether that's true or not, I don't know. But any how, Rogers Kelly was the gentleman over there that was elected
- you know Mr. [James] Gardner or Mr. [Kellis] Dibrell? O: I knew them both slightly at that time and knew them better during the years after that time. G: How did you come to get involved in this controversy? O: I had a wing