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  • party. Meets at 10 a.m. with members of Urban League. Attends baseball lunch, goes to WH and then to baseball game with JFK, opening day of Washington Senators. Arrives back at P-38 at 5:40 p.m., apparently for meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King. 4/10
  • A-133 #22 for Cong. Dave King. As you know this has been approved by the President. Many thanks!! r I. ~ t l. ~ I r-. r'~ .. .. Ul~ll9E1J GU.USS 1-\1~0CEL"'-u\11LC \!\!OL'1
  • : Well, how did this--? O: Weaver was a darn good candidate if you were considering recognizing the black community at this level. He was not a civil rights leader as such. He was, as I recall, an academician. He was not one of Martin Luther King's
  • President to them that they may have treated him a little too familiarly. He wasn't the king. F: Kind of like being married without any of the romance. C : He was Lyndon JolliJ.son from Texas who just happened to be in the White House. I think that's
  • http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh O'Brien -- Interview XXIII -- 8 Luther King, the connection
  • and Cesar Chavez's support for RFK; McCarthy's young supporters; RFK as attorney general and surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr.; RFK's personality; RFK's response to McCarthy's criticisms; public interest in, and perception of, the Kennedys
  • something to the effect that he just hoped they could keep Martin Luther King out of Cook County. And the President said, "Why?" And Daley said, "I don't want him assassinated in Cook County." He didn't use the word assassinated; he didn't want him killed
  • plant and electric lights and water system, Morrison came down and employed myself and my partner to do the legal work and the transfer of the title. He visited back and forth a few times. Martin Insull came down there one time himself. In fact
  • Luther King, Jr., was buried in Atlanta on a Monday. There was speculation in the press and on the wire services that the President was going to that funeral. He called me when I was fis hin g at Callaway Gardens in Georgia and I took the call from
  • to the skies with everyone and making major figures out of them. When they get off that frequency, there are tremendous--as Martin Luther King would say--jangling discords. There's a tremendous fall from that intense relationship. B: Are you saying that Mr
  • and that he didn't want, as the minority leader, to take a defeat. You had the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, which had an impact on this legislation, obviously. The key was to persuade the House to accept the Senate version, as it was tenuous
  • • th• aecmad tutallMat of a ftft year proar• 1'1ltcb will total up to $26 ■tllton. 'l'h• aHt•taaee vtll laelp Tuntata to d•••lop a capability to bold off an aaraHor until tnterutioul action could be effected. They are ••king other countrl•• to prcwlde
  • Negro. Frakes was arrested at 12:35 A.M. on Sunday morning, Jurie 11. That evening, concurrent with the commenc:;e:;f , / a Baptist Convention, Dr. Martin Luther King spoke i~ gne . ~f l.fte churches. . . ~~& . Following th7' speech
  • it A /t RcmowmPresident [Duplicate of #1, NSF, CF, Norway, "King Olav V Visit"] IA.~ lb qq NL.7'77-::l..W v V Visit" FILE LOCATION NSF, Memos to the President, Walt Rostow, Volume 73, April 24-30, 1968 RESTRICTION Box 33 CODES (A) Closed
  • , 000 from David Finkel stein for the Martin Foundation; $5, 000 from Mrs. Post for the school program; $2. 00 from a G. I. in Korea, an admirer of Mrs. Johnson; and $3. 00 from an admirer of Lynda Johnson. Sutt on Jett announced that Mrs. Lasker had
  • to happen then: The President's withdrawal; the Martin Luther King assassination. That was really my first feeling of the difficulties of running an organization like this. Mr. Harding was out of town at the time of the King assassina- tion, and I
  • Airport in Lincoln Photographers caught by surprise. Only a few. 8:52 w/ Secret Service left via King Air 11:55 Arrived LBJ Ranch 3:17 w/ Knetsch to landing strip to look at wildflower seeds 4:35 Returned to main house and drove Danz property Driving car
  • , and then to baseball game with President 7 2:00 Baseball game - opening day - Wash. Senators 8 5:40 Ar. back at P-38 - Dr. Martin L. King * Selected names should be underscored. SEE VERSO FOR TRAVEL ACTIVITY AND CODE Expenditure Code
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Hayes -- I -- 23 Martin Luther King, student takeovers of university buildings, the confrontation of police
  • of the most moving things Washington had seen in terms of numbers--yet John F. Kennedy did not agree to meet with Martin Luther King and the black leadership in a big public meeting prior to that thing. He did meet with the leaders quietly and privately
  • both--in other words, in civil rights we ought to talk to the Poles in West Chicago who virtually turned Martin Luther King inside out. Do they represent the white opposition, or do the people that--I want to say Ridge Oak Country Club in Houston-M
  • at any given moment talk about any of those factors. I think he seemed to think that it was extremely violent times. You know, we had already gone through the Martin Luther King assassination. G: Did he talk about his relationship with Bobby Kennedy? B
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh TALMADGE -- I -- 30 hand Martin Luther King or on the other hand Lester Maddox? T: I don't recall that we ever conferred about either of them. B: One of the things I'm getting
  • on the heels of that came, within a week, the assassination of Martin Luther King and the riots in Washington. March. Then the Poor Peoples' Then, of course, the assassination of Senator Kennedy. P: You must have had a continuous high volume of mail
  • , and I chaired the meetings. The fact of the matter is I presided over the testimony that the third party candidate for the Presidency this last year was testifying on. Because of his insinuation that Martin Luther King was a Communist, we got
  • now; I think it's happened with some of the black leadership where responsible leadership becomes extreme because it will be read out of movement as being too white, too Uncle Tom. Luther King had that problem the day that he was killed. I think
  • of pretty ladies for Lyndon .... will pass out campaign buttons, whistles, balloons, LBJ hats and many other colorful souvenirs to the welcoming crowds. Accompanying the First Lady on her tour through the South will be Secretary of Commerce, Luther B. Hodges
  • ­ vented through the prog ram outlined by the study g r oup. I sincerely hope that this program will be put into p r actic e in l the near future. s~~cerely ·1 / .J~i~l~~ l C1..,tt.'~~. ,~ Martin Lunin , D. D . S. x. Professor and Head Department