LBJ Phone Calls
In the 1990s, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas began releasing phone recordings of taped calls from President Johnson's administration. The set available for listening here are those the period immediately following the Kennedy assassination, plus other selected calls relevant to that event. You may also browse the transcripts directly in the Document Archive - see the LBJ Phone Calls page there. See also the Index to LBJ November 1963 Phone Calls. The Miller Center has online audio for a much more complete set of LBJ phone calls. |
22 Nov 1963
LBJ - Nellie Connally, 4:30 PM - transcript
This call occurred while LBJ was aboard Air Force One.
This call occurred while LBJ was aboard Air Force One.
LBJ - Pres. Dwight Eisenhower, 7:10 PM - transcript
Allen Hoover, 8:00 PM - transcript
23 Nov 1963
LBJ - J. Edgar Hoover, 10:01 AM - transcript
This call is erased - see The Fourteen Minute Gap and The Fourteen Minute Gap: An Update.
This call is erased - see The Fourteen Minute Gap and The Fourteen Minute Gap: An Update.
LBJ - Sen. George Smathers, 2:10 PM (part 1)
LBJ - Sen. George Smathers, 2:10 PM (part 2) - transcript
LBJ - Sen. George Smathers, 2:10 PM (part 2) - transcript
LBJ - Patrick Lucey, time unknown - transcript
LBJ - Carl Robard, time unknown - transcript
LBJ - Gov. John Reynolds, time unknown - transcript
24 Nov 1963
Bill Moyers - Dean Eugene Rostow, time unknown - transcript
In this call, Rostow brought up the idea of a President's Commission, within hours after Oswald's death.
In this call, Rostow brought up the idea of a President's Commission, within hours after Oswald's death.
25 Nov 1963
LBJ - Joe Alsop, 10:40 AM - transcript
Influential Washington Post columnist Joe Alsop pressed Johnson hard about the idea of a "blue ribbon commission."
Influential Washington Post columnist Joe Alsop pressed Johnson hard about the idea of a "blue ribbon commission."
26 Nov 1963
27 Nov 1963
28 Nov 1963
LBJ - Sen. James Eastland, 3:21 PM - transcript
Senator Eastland, Judiciary Committee Chairman, agreed in this call to drop committee hearings, in favor of the President's Commission.
Senator Eastland, Judiciary Committee Chairman, agreed in this call to drop committee hearings, in favor of the President's Commission.
29 Nov 1963
LBJ - J. Edgar Hoover, 1:40 PM - transcript
Johnson ran the names of the proposed Commission members by the all-powerful J. Edgar Hoover.
Johnson ran the names of the proposed Commission members by the all-powerful J. Edgar Hoover.
LBJ - Sen. Richard Russell, 8:55 PM - transcript
In this amazing call, LBJ warned Russell about the possibility of 40 million dead Americans (in a nuclear exchange with the Soviets), and at the end told the story of how he had gotten Earl Warren to head the Commission, by telling him "something Hoover told me about a little incident in Mexico City."
In this amazing call, LBJ warned Russell about the possibility of 40 million dead Americans (in a nuclear exchange with the Soviets), and at the end told the story of how he had gotten Earl Warren to head the Commission, by telling him "something Hoover told me about a little incident in Mexico City."
30 Nov 1963
LBJ - Dir. John McCone, 3:14 PM - transcript
CIA Director McCone informed Johnson that Gilberto Alvarado had retracted his story of seeing Oswald take $6500 in the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City to kill Kennedy.
CIA Director McCone informed Johnson that Gilberto Alvarado had retracted his story of seeing Oswald take $6500 in the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City to kill Kennedy.