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Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • friendly relationship with Dr. King's father. I knew Dr. King personally, but I didn't have any great intimate relationship there. I was in the President's office the night that Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was sitting there with him
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
  • ; LBJ’s efforts in Vietnam; Martin Luther King’s assassination; working on the Commission for Federal-State Relations; LBJ inheriting JFK’s staff; being offered a federal appointment; LBJ deciding not to run in 1968; LBJ’s relationship with Robert Kennedy
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the Cabinet Room. This was a meeting on the morning after Dr. [Martin Luther] King's assassination, to which the President had invited maybe ten or fifteen Negro leaders. The purpose of the meeting, I think, was to discuss with them what they saw as the likely
  • McGiffert's career from 1953 to 1965; how McGiffert got into government work and promotion opportunities under Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara; meetings with LBJ, including one after the assassination of Martin Luther King; McGiffert's contact
Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : None whatsoever. In fact, I picketed only after I could not get any response from a series of wires to the President asking for an audience with him. He had been giving audiences to Martin Luther King and other groups, other individuals, and I had