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ROBERTS -- I -- 14
F:
Okay, let's go back to Love Field.
R:
Yes.
You're in a police car.
We got there of course after both Johnson and the Kennedy
casket and had a little trouble getting
- See all online interviews with Charles Roberts
- Reasons for JFK’s 11/63 trip to Texas; detailed description of the day of the assassination, the motorcade, assassination, hospital, swearing-in; and flight back to Washington D.C.; LBJ’s and Kennedy staff’s behavior following the assassination
- Roberts, Charles Wesley, 1916-1992
- Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
- Charles Roberts
- that arises in connection with the presidential
years is the relationship between Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy.
Would you say that there there grew up the same kind of rivalry that
existed earlier?
K:
Well, he knew that [Robert] Kennedy tried to prevent
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
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General Robert Kennedy or some of the other staff members?
Y:
I would say they were sort of lumped together. You sort of thought of them as the clique
or the clan, the Eastern Establishment. I guess the more unkind characterizations have
been the Mafia
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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