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- partisan for the
disadvantaged.
Branch paid tribute to the pow
erful rhetoric of Martin Luther King,
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pointing out that his formula was to
rely on the twin pillars of the
Constitution and the Bible. King
always managed to call upon both
Jefferson
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occasions they gave a review of American musical comedy and a presentation of the songs of Noel Coward and Cole Porter.
Taylor Branch, author of a Pulitzer
Prize winning book about the U.S. in
the time of Martin Luther King, Jr.,
gave a recounting of his
- . Even the
civil rights mov ment experienced
turmoil, moving from the passive reistance of Martin Luther King to the
mor confrontational tactics of Stokely
Carmichael and H. Rap Brown, as the
goal of integration gave way to th call
for black power
- .-.omeother re ent acqu1s1tions
Three of the pieces-the drawing of oodrow Wilson the
pamting by Dwighl D. Eisenhower and the wood engraving of
Martin Luther King were donate by Mr. and Mrs. Larry E.
Temple. The others were acquired by the LBJ Foundatio
- to the Library
Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr,, and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Christine King Farris, visited the
Library to prepare for the tablishment of a Study Center ho~ing the papers of the slain
Civil Rights leader in Atlanta. Here they confer with Chief
- for publication in 1993.
Bryan H. Barrows III, a teacher at
Del Mar College in Corpus Christi,
brought to the Library his one-man
show on Martin Luther King, Jr.,
in which he portrays a man telling
the story of the civil rights leader's
life. Mr. Barrows gave his
- and an eloquent
spokesperson for the President's
programs.
photo by Robert Knudsen
photo by Robert Knudsen
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Johnson called 1968 "a nightmare
year,' and the exhibit recalls some of
its agonies-the
Tet Offensive in
Vietnam, the assassination of Martin
Luther
- before us that is tearing
at the heart of America exists in spite of the
remarkable
progress Black Americans have
made in the last generation, since Martin Luther
King swept Amerka up in his dream, and
President Johnson spoke so powerfully for the
dignity
- of the times: "Young
people don't know who Martin
Luther King is, or John Kennedy.
They do know who John Kennedy, Jr.
is because they've seen his picture:
he's the hunk on the skates.''
(The tragic loss of John Kennedy,
Jr., or course, was then still
- of rare
talent, eloquence, education, and
commitment to public service.
He also happens to be black. The
Democratic Party will nominate
him on the day another man of
rare talent, education, eloquence
and commitment to public ser
vice, Martin Luther King
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To begin the Library's obser
vation of Black History Month
and the African-American
art
exhibit, Bryan Barrows, a teacher
of communications
at Prairie
View A&M University, brought to
the LBJ Auditorium his one-man
play, "Who Was Martin Luther
King
- "; James Ralph, "Northern
Protest: Mantin Luther King, Jr.,
Chicago, and the Civil Rights Move
ment"; Brian Ripley, "Group Proc
esses and Foreign Policy Decision
Making in the Kennedy and Johnson
Administrations";.
Adrian
W.
Schertz, ''Kennedy's
- 29, 1963
Bernard Safran
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MARTIN LUTHER KING
February 18, 1957
Boris Chaliapin
BOB HOPE
December 22, 1967
Marisol
LADY BIRD JOHNSON
August 28, 1964
Boris Artzybasheff
BOBBY KENNEDY
May 24, 1968
Roy Lichtenstein
BARRY COLDWATER
June 12, 1964
- created by the subjects
of the portraits. The bronze pieces,
representing Berks' output over a
long career, included leaders in the
worlds of politics (Presidents John
son, Kennedy and Truman); religion
(Pope Paul VI, Martin Luther King,
Jr.); industry
- ago,
July 2, 1964: LBJ
signs the Civil
Rights Act in the
East Room of the
White House.
Just behind the
President are Rev.
Martin Luther
King, Jr. and
Whitney Young
(accepting a pen
from LBJ).
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the corridor to create the appearance of a
cul cle sac
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munism in Asia. lt was no le
wrong, LBJ thought, to leave
the brown- and ellow-skinned
peoples of the world to ommu
ni m, than it was to leav south-
rn blacks to th tender mercies
of white segregationists.
But by
1967 Martin Luther King had be
come
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ming, Politics and the PubhL Interest: An Adrninistrntivc Biograph) of
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting' • Julie L. Pycior, 'Lyndon
Johnson and M xican-Amcril-ans in the Great Depression"· Jame;
Ralph. "Northern Protest· Martin Luther King, Jr
- August 6, 1999.
AMONG FRIE
February 1
Henr Kissinger; Fifth Harry Middleton Lecturer
February 17
William Barrows Gives One-Man Show on Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
February 19
African-American Art Exhibit Opens
February 29
n Evening with Lawrence
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1950-1959"; Dr. Ruth Leacock, "U.S.-Brazilian Relations,
1961-1969"; Dr. Walter J. McCoy, "Lyndon Johnson: A Special
Force in the Appointment of Thurgood Marshall to the Su
preme Court"; Dr. Stephen B. Oates, "Full-Scale Biography of
Martin Luther King
- to play our saxo
phone solos, too.") As to the legacy
of civil right.·: "J saw right out here in
u ·tin some street signs that read,
'Martin Luther King,' and 'Cesar
Chavez.'
ow there is a legac ."
Why do we revisit, over and over,
the story or civil
-
Brady collection. About 1866
A visitor studies the photographic images from the latter years of the 1
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Arm-in-arm in the
front row from left to right are: Floyd McKissick, Marlin Luther
King, Jr., Cleveland
- HER HEART BELONGSTO THE LBJLIBRARY
Mary Martin Launches New Exhibit
See Story on Page 7
James Rowe Reflectson PresidentsHe Knew
James H. Rowe, Jr., Washington attorney who has known
every President since Franklin Roosevelt, for whom he
worked
- . Gregory
Peck. Peter Yarrow (of Peter. Paul,
and Mary), and Van Cliburn.
The Library's special thanks go
to the planners who have helped put
this program together: Ed Dorn. Lit.
Carpenter. George Christian. Betty
Sue Flowers, Bob Hardesty, Robert
King
- to support us. l was down m the courthouse
yesterday and I saw Judge Martin" -old man Martin was
the County Judge and he wa 84 years old-"and
I got to
talking to him. He said he was ready Lo retire if we could
find someone to replace him. And I began thinking
- gathered \\ ith the President to rejmce in the assage of
the Voting Rights Act. They were there, Martin Luth r King,
Ro, \\ ilk in., Phil Randolph, Dorothy Height, Bayard Rus
tin, Whitney Young, and others. They held hands and
swayed to a kind of religious
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2); Steven Ford and Mrs. Rosalynn Carter, both of whom came
during the Presidential campaign season; Mrs. Coretta King;
Mexican Governor Cardenas Gonzalez; Congresswoman Lindy
Boggs, and ambassadors from four foreign countries. Congress
\\ Oman
- Smith."
Elizabeth's last wedding.
·'[ incurred ... the wrath of the
Kennedys by delving into the history
of Judith Exner, who had been an
emissary between JFK and the Mafia
king Sam Giancana, a woman forced
to give up the news of her private Life
- too
intimate to mention, the clock was
ti king within seconds of a TV show
called "Live at Five," with an esti
mat d audience of 25 million view
ers. Suddenly the lights w nt off.
Ollie North was still on, saluting the
fla or singing the Marine hymn
- and Archives Specialist
Sarah Haldeman listen as Shirley James describes a
humorous pillow in the West Room.
The Johnsons purchased the
Ranch house from the then-Sen
ator's Aunt Frank (Mrs. Clarence
Martin) on May 5, I 951. The
Johnsons made many renovations
- of the
world'. most famous ocuments-lhe
Magna Carta sealed
in 1215 .D. by King John of England-was
on display in
the LBJ .ibrary.
This Y.as only the 1h1rd time tor the ancient document
one f our remaining f the 20 handwritten exemplars dis
tributed to centers
- a cowshed.
And a further ordinance de
clar ct that all players, not just
strolling ones, "bv rogues and
vagabonds." The ban was not
officially lifted until King
Charles rr·s restoration in 1660.
In that year professional
actresses appeared for the first
- ovation subsided with
J rdan smiling impishly at him the
wh I lime.
Reverend D. Z. Col field had
this to sa at Jordan's funeral:
"I like to think that if Dr. King
was the conductor of the orcbe ·trn,
Barbara would be i11 the first chair. 1f
Dr. King opened
- opening the new gallery, Bess Abell,
White House Social Secretary during the Johnson years, told
of the preparations and ritual that went into planning dinners
for presidents, prime ministers and kings.
Adjoining the new gallery is an open
patio which
- and human faces.
The Day of Kings comes Jan. 6. Children write notes
t the three kings lo let them know what toys they
1sh for. Many of thl' "toys" in the Library's exhibit
were not made for children, but the painted pott ry
pieces are beauliful examples
- about 1066, and how at the Battl.e of
Hastings the Saxon King Harold was
killed b_ an arrow in the eye. What if
the anonymous Norman archer who
loosed that shaft had not been so fortu
nate? What if Harold and his formida
ble army of Saxons had
- about them for over thirty years.
She mused. "I had written these notes for
these children yet to come, so I didn't
have to worry about it."
Bul on July 4, 2002, Mrs. Connally
appe,u·ed on the Larry King show, and
publishers beg,rn to call. One was Bill
- as to produce our popula
tion of living creature , with car
bon-based chemistries? Is it only
on earths such as ours that anyone
is even a king such questions?
Are we, and all we observe, the
result of some Benevolent De
sign, or is everything we se only
- , movies about the
visits of premiers and presidents and
kings, about Mrs. Johnson's activities,
and about the President - including,
from June, 1966 onward, a filmed report
on what the Pr sident did each and
every month of his term of office. All
those
- by the ranch foreman describes the problems and the
reward. of a wo king anch. addles and the variety of branding
techniques utilized by the ranc ar •ncluded.
From LBJ's Senate day· in the 1950:, the ranch drew an
impressive list of national and world 1,aders
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"FIVE FUN~Y WOMEN," who jointly gave this year's
Liz Carpenter Distinguished Lecture at the University of
Texas posed for a group photo at the Library. They are:
writer Nora Ephron, actress Carol Channing, writer Shana
Alexander, writer Florence King
