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Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Schnittker -- II -- 6 This issue coincided with the Martin Luther King assassination, the Poor People's March, and the civil rights acceleration of 1967 and 1968. Much of the Poor People's March, a very large part of its agenda, was "more food for more people
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 2 (II), 11/13/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the spring and summer of 1967 and 1968, particularly the one here following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King? Did you have any relationship with the White House on this? K: No, not really. F: Let's shift to foreign affairs. You made a trip
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 17, 15 August 1979," LBJ Library (Item)
  • 29, 1963 Bernard Safran 8 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
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 46, 15 January 1990," LBJ Library (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • possibly introduced him. G: Yes. P: He was working for Congressman--King Ranch, South Texas. G: Yes. P: K1eberg. G: Well, did you have much contact with Johnson before you worked in that Richard K1eberg. That's right. campaign, the 1934 campaign
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 84, June 2004," LBJ Library (Item)
  • 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). 10 the corridor to create the appearance of a cul cle sac
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /loh/oh Alexander -- III -- 7 F: I remember the Nat King Cole fiasco. A: I don't think his show lasted six months--again, with someone as prominent as he was. F: One of the cliches is that entertainment and sports are a road to o p p o r t u n
Oral history transcript, Walter Washington and Bennetta Washington, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , particularly Louis Martin, people like that, which is a general feel-out, as they do in these situations. B: There has been some talk that perhaps Mrs. Johnson was your strongest recommender. W: I would say this, that I got to know Mrs. Johnson better than
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • like to talk about a couple of national matters which were occurring at about this time. Some time, I believe in April, I received a phone call from Martin Litton, the travel editor of Sunset magazine, and himself an extremely ardent conservationist
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for them because the man who owned and ran that one was a very close friend of hi.s from 01 d Texas days, Martin Anderson. So that was an exception. can at the present time. It's very much Republi- Anderson has sold it. T counseled with them about
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 88, February 2007," LBJ Library (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , I can't imagine that the President would have stuck with that decision. And when it can happen on a little thing like Martin Luther King, flag-lowering, in comparison to these other things, I think you can see how important it is that people working
  • an executive order versus legislation; fair housing; Wozencraft's opinion of reviewing and redrafting executive orders; OLC's work clearing proclamations for White House release; the proclamation of a period of mourning following Martin Luther King's
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
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • look back at the day I was appointed with the Viet Cong inside the Embassy garden there in the TET offensive, and the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, the urban riots and convention battles, and all of the things that happened
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 39, 15 February 1987," LBJ Library (Item)
  • 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
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 72, January 2000," LBJ Library (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was sort of like wiretapping. He was dead against wiretapping on the one hand. On the other hand, he didn't mind reading or hearing whatever they got from [Martin Luther] King. And I think part of it also was not unrelated to Bobby Kennedy. Bobby Kennedy's
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 25 (XXV), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • bugged [Martin Luther] King extensively. G: You had mentioned before this senator from New Hampshire who LBJ managed to arrange a quid pro quo so that the Senator wouldn't have to testify on a milk subsidy. This guy would support him on--was it [Thomas
Oral history transcript, Zephyr Wright, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the civil rights thing. I think I noticed it more during that time when Martin Luther King had that march on Washington. I didn't go, of course, because I think wOt'king for the Johnsons I didn't associate myself with any of these things that were going
Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was not put in jail . F: Did you personally deal with Martin Luther King during all of this? B: No, F: He was dead before I started on this project, so I never I stayed at least-- [talked to him] . B: No, I stayed at least one person away from him . I
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it, and that is, there was a real critical time in this after the Senate passed the bill. The House had not passed open housing in August of '67, so it had to go back to the House for either a conference or for a concurrence. time of the Martin Luther King assassination, if you
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 5 (V), 5/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • met in Ramsey Clark's office, and along with us there appeared Bayard Rustin, who was so instrumental in the 1963 march with Martin Luther King. He had as his chief aide and helper, a very beautiful Negress, whose name I cannot remember, but who
Oral history transcript, Thurgood Marshall, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • see, we tended to do that in '55. Then we got out of that with Martin Luther King, etc. Then '65, I think, it moved in again. You know, everybody fighting in the civil rights fight has always been a little inclined to just sit down and take a breather
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 16, 15 May 1979," LBJ Library (Item)
  • , 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
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • who in the twenties said that he would keep the British out of Lake Michigan if he were elected, and everybody applauded greatly over that . The night before election he went further and said that, "If King George tries to get into Chicago, I'll
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about that when you presented your credentials? H: Of course, I presented my credentials to the King, who is very pro-American incidentally, and a very fine man. Erlander, who was then the Prime Minister, I think was essentially was pro-American. I
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . What's his heritage? Who Because heri- He became famous, of course, on account of his grandfather and the King Ranch. But I guess the reason he got connected with Lyndon--what success he owed should go, I say, to my father in this regard. and live
Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 2 (II), 5/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] and the fact that he was doing more than the prior administration had done, and he stressed that he was proud of it. I think he was meeting with Martin Luther King the day before or the day after this weekend. G: Did LBJ regard voting rights as a special
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : In your meeting with President Johnson at that time, did you discuss Martin Luther King with him? W: You know, in three and one-half hours of conversation with the President about that matter, I don't know that we discussed in detail any personality. I
Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • their relationship was during the Martin Luther King riots in 1968. As you recall, President Johnson was scheduled to go to Hawaii and meet General [William] Westmoreland in Hawaii to talk about the situation in Vietnam, but I guess on a Wednesday, or I guess
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of indifferent to Kennedy. But what he did was, that finally brought them in, was that call to Coretta King when Martin Luther King was tossed in the [Georgia state prison]. And of course the Latinos, they thought Johnson was the greatest invention since sliced
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , Chicago. My personal experience vis-à-vis Resurrection City was probably gathered mostly out of the August 1963 march-(Interruption) --when [Martin Luther] King made that speech about, "I have a dream." Resurrection City was handled largely through
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the only one I ever knew who called him Lyn . I called him Lyndon ; Luther Jones and Gene called him "Chief," but Bill White called him L.yn . He was there very regularly . About that time there was a fellow we got to know much better later, but he
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , then Martin Luther King was assassinated within a few days after that, and the President screamed for me. He wanted [Harry] Middleton and I to do a memorial resolution, and Joe said that I was in the Virgin Islands. He said, "What's he doing down there?" He
  • former staff members went to work; Jack Valenti; Bill Moyers; financial aspects of being a White House staff member; Virgin Islands retreat; problems in Washington D.C. following the Martin Luther King assassination; Washington D.C. mayor Pat Murphy; "We
Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview S-1 (I), 3/26/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • and they misunderstood him. I'll give you an illustration of that. We had information that Martin Luther King was going to march on Selma, Alabama. I've forgotten which year it was-­ D: 1965. M: Nineteen sixty-five, right. It seemed clear to me that there was going