Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger

Title:

Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger

Number of Pages:

18

Description:

How Terry got a job at the Washington Post; shaking hands with Arkansas governor, Orval Faubus; early encounters with LBJ; Capitol Press Club; awarding LBJ for civil rights work; LBJ giving scholarship money to a black college student in 1963; job offers in the Johnson administration; Terry’s religious background; George Davis of the National City Christian Church; covering LBJ’s presidency; LBJ eating other people’s food; Thurgood Marshall; military integration; LBJ as civil rights leader; career after a tour in Vietnam; Vietnam studies and literature.

Contributor:

Terry, Wallace

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

See Also:

See all online interviews with Wallace Terry

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details

Interviewee:

Wallace Terry

Interviewer(s):

Ted Gittinger

Specific Item Type:

Oral history

Type:

Text

Format:

Paper

Identifier:

oh-terryw-19991008-1-04-13

Date:

1999-10-08

Time Period:

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Citation

Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger, LBJ Library Oral Histories, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed April 18, 2024, https://www.discoverlbj.org/item/oh-terryw-19991008-1-04-13