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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins and Alice Hopkins, interview 4 (IV), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 11 (XI), 7/24/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 3 (III), 5/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Whitney Shoemaker, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , 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
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, interview S-IX, 8/12/1969, by William J. Jorden (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . There was one time when Martin Luther King had been in to see him, and King went outside, and the reporters gathered around him outside the West Wing entrance. I followed out to see that everything was still in front of the White House, but there was such a big
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • professional advisers to presidents. They were I know the night Martin Luther King was killed--for some reason; I don't know why--Clifford was there, was in the office, and he spent the whole time--and I think it almost appears in looking at the contacts
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh MILLER -- I -- 3 OM: There was a vacancy in Congress at that time and Dick Kleberg of the Kleberg and King Ranch Families in South Texas ran for Congress. Now in those
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Witness that a year later when I'll talk later about the second trip to Hawaii, when we went out in preparation for the visit out there in 1967 [1968], just before Martin Luther King was killed. We had to abort and go back a week later. Now that's
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 5 (V), 5/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . [Martin pressure years and they ''Well the remand it were the same and And it would take forever else. Luther] on this the facts and So, this, King's coupled in with march at Selma and focus on it really required That was what we came up
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • prior to that, I'd begun to make a good living, joined a lovely country club, started going out to Aspen to ski in the winter and living the good life. And Watson was a~king me to come here; they could pay me something like $25,000 a year in a place
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the landscapes that we passed through in Texas. M: I believe you told me that that trip was a little bit overshadowed by some national events at the time. F: Yes. The death of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the subsequent riots in the nation's capital were
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • brother trusted you to handle the money? J: Yes. Well, you have to consider this, go back to it, Martin Dies had run in the first campaign in 1941, and he lost because he couldn't get the money. This time he wanted to run, but he couldn't get
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 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
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  • 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.
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 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
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  • 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.