Sound recording of interview with Luís Salas, continued, Papers of James W. Mangan, tape 1, side B, 7/29/1977

Title:

Sound recording of interview with Luís Salas, continued, Papers of James W. Mangan, tape 1, side B, 7/29/1977

Duration: (min: sec):

30:57

Description:

Continuation of interview of Luís Salas by AP reporter James Mangan regarding Salas’s early life, entrance into politics, and disputed votes in Jim Wells County, Texas, during the 1948 Senate election. Topics: 1948 run off between LBJ and Coke Stevenson; Salas’s initial assessment of election results; meeting in San Diego, TX between Parr, LBJ, Ed Lloyd, Bruce Ainsworth, and Salas in which LBJ expressed need for 200 more votes; addition of 200 names to the tally lists; disposition of tally lists, poll lists, ballots; investigation of election results; reasons for Salas's silence; President Truman’s possible involvement; Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black stops the investigation; reasons for Salas’s involvement; Salas’s opinions of LBJ, Stevenson; Salas’s relationship with George Parr.

Contributor:

Salas, Luís; Mangan, James W.; Ewalt, Joe

Collection:

Papers of James W. Mangan

Collection Description:

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Series:

Sound Recordings

Location Details:

Salas home in Houston, Texas

Subject:

Congressional elections; Texas; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; Press

Archivist's General Note:

Written on cassette: “salas in’vu” “side 2”

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted