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Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that so much I guess I don't know whether I had the feeling, or it's just been drummed into me. F: You and George Romney, you've been brainwashed? K: No, I think for one thing a lot of them were big Kennedy fans, and they looked on Johnson as something
Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a bi t of trouble. There were huge crowds out, and he and Kennedy were in the parade; they were the main dignitaries. M: When did you see C: I can't be sure just when it was I saw him again. t1: Did you see him between that 1960 parade and the time
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in October of ' 6 0 . The man he had named previously, who had formerly been District Commissioner, died before reaching Quito, and so I was the next one chosen. F: I don't want to pre-empt what people working on John F. Kennedy might ask you sometime
  • Foreign service career assignments: 1936 in the Pacific and later in Latin America; effect of Alliance for Progress in Ecuador; effect of Kennedy assassination on the Alliance; assignment as Ambassador to Venezuela; fishing agreement (12 mile limit
Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and promoting Mr. Johnson wherever they could. Sort of advance men, as we called them. F: When did you first learn that he had been offered and had accepted the vice presidential nomination by Mr. Kennedy? P: It was, of course, speculated in the newspapers
Oral history transcript, William F. Billings, interview 1 (I), 5/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Well, as I say, I supported Goldwater . No . And there, of course, as between Johnson and Kennedy, I would have been quite happy to have seen Johnson nominated over Kennedy . M: That's what I was thinking--when they were building up to this Now, you
Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • important precedent. And, as I remember, Lyndon Johnson did work for that bill. B: Yes, he did. Then what was your attitude toward the 1960 Democratic ticket of Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson? R: Quite frankly, I was very distressed when Mr. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the parents were in Texas at the time of President Kennedy's assassination. Lynda was in Austin at the University, but Luci was--I was out at the Elms with Luci. And that afternoon I went by the school to pick her up to take her home. That is one of my
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • your wedding. II They were living· at the Kennedy-Warren. [A D. C. apartment house] So they asked us to make up a list of whom we wanted. Philip had been here a year and a half, and the list got so big that the wedding had to be moved from
Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • entertained President Kennedy the day after he was assassinated. He {'Kennedy] was coming from Dallas to Austin for a dinner, then LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 2 B: Were Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson, after him, especially interested in this concept of self-help feature? J: Yes. I think they both emphasized it. Probably because I was a little closer to it later, I would say that President Johnson
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was to cover the President Kennedy tour through Texas. I was responsible for setting up our coverage and planning our coverage. in Dallas. As a result of that I laid on a little extra help Goodness knows I didn't have in mind any kind of real trouble
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • participates in these visits, if they occur within their area. M: And you stayed in Atlanta until 1960? Y: Through 1960. At the very end of 1960, I came back to Washington on a temporary assignment and was here during the inauguration of President Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the news, the two of us were alone. know, it was just sort of, I guess, blank. It You I don'tthinkwe spilled into the halh"ays, but just a blank,empty feeling. At the time we heard that President Kennedy had been shot, we didn't hear much beyond
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , his accepting it? D: No, I really wasn't. Tell you what I did. After Kennedy was nominated on the first ballot--of course, I was disappointed--I got on the plane and carne on horne. F: But not surprised? D: Not surprised, no. I got there a day
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to overstate my national I began \vorking in national campaigns, as I recall, in 1956, involvement. being head of the Speakers' Bureau in Southern California for Adlai Stevenson. I had a role in John Kennedy's campaign in 1960, and a minor role
Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy? H: I was on North Capitol Street just at the main Post Office Building. F: What did you do--hear it by radio or word of mouth? H: Well, I stopped for a traffic signal and someone drove up to my side
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about as usual, about as I have for the past twenty, twenty-five years. F: You didn't have any opportunity to observe his relationships then with President Kennedy? K: Heavens, F: Where were you on that November 22, 1963? Here in Austin? K: Right
Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the same trip that Kennedy made in 1960, and I was with him on that trip. It was a great trip. and it did a lot of good. I honestly believe that if Humphrey had come through . . . I don't mean [to criticize] him personally. I don't think [he.made
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • for the District." Kennedy. Charlie Horsky had been created for that job under President Steve Pollak was there for Johnson. Steve Pollak did leave very quickly after we were nominated and appointed. M: What's the significance of that? F: The significance