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  • , 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
  • INTERVIEWEE: LUTHER E. JONES, JR. INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Judge Jones' Chambers in the Nueces County Courthouse, Corpus Christi, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: First of all, I'd like to know a little bit about your background. Where were you born, where
  • See all online interviews with Luther E. Jones, Jr.
  • Jones, Luther Edward, Jr., 1914-1999
  • Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb
  • Luther E. Jones, Jr.
  • , 1977 INTERVIEWEE: LUTHER E. JONES, JR. INTERVln~ER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Corpus Christi, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: One thing that you didn't mention in that earlier tape that I'm going to ask you to recall is the first time that you met Lyndon
  • See all online interviews with Luther E. Jones, Jr.
  • Jones, Luther Edward, Jr., 1914-1999
  • Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Luther E. Jones, Jr.
  • and Luther Jones, the attorney in Corpus Christi, were outstanding debaters, and the two years that the President coached debate, they went to the state finals. Brackenridge in San ~ut on both occasions they were defeated by old Antonio~ which was coached
  • somewhere? B: No. No, I only knew the name, the Kleberg name of the King Ranch, but I did not know him. At that time I believe it was the Tenth Congressional District, but it was a long district that went from Corpus and took in this area from Blanco
  • will refer to things 1ike that, "Well, you got me in a lot of trouble with your--" G: He loves to ld.d me about the time I was in trouble with Martin Dies. M: He's e.asy to be in trouble with. G: He k.ids me about my being a radical and so forth. W: G
  • to me by one of my most valued fI'iends of those days Mr. Richard Kleberg, of the world-famous King Ranch. Mr. KJeberg and his family had been extraordinarily kind to me during my Summer Sessions at the college. I still remember one luncheon party
  • ,there \-1aS quite a l~t of speech I"fI.3.king and talking,. and Pap. Avery brought the house dO'/In \ihen he said" J'~Touldnft it have been a helluva hardship on the country if I'd been elected!" PB :Nm'i to pick up your story chronologically" fiIr
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Quill -- I -- 2 King Ranch, he kind of handled the social end of the Congress and Lyndon did all the heavy lifting, all the hard work. G: What were you doing there? Q: I was Chief Deputy County Clerk. I was at the stockyard