General Discussion

Back in election 1960,

LBJ and Ladybird were in Dallas
But, I might mixup some details it’s been so long
since I heard this from my father

Senator LBJ was alerted, or warned that there was a group of
protesters, Republicans, I think mainly GOP women on street
in downtown Dallas.

Ladybird and LBJ were at the hotel and had to walk to
the Democratic event across the street, (or maybe a block),
I can’t remember the hotels involved anymore.

And there were a group at a bar drinking already,

Well my late father was a Big Democrat, he was then VP
of a Fortune 500 company, Dad was there already at the hotel where
LBJ and Ladybird were heading to.

LBJ was told …‘it’s not a good idea to walk across the street to
the Democrats event because of the Republicans women protesting.
The Republicans women had protest signs such as ‘Let’s Fry Up a Ladybird’.

LBJ responded that…’Hell if a Texan can’t freely walk across the street with
his wife’, ‘we’re walking!!’

As they walked out, Of course LBJ and Ladybird were met with jeers and spitting by the Republicans, and a few men from the bar spilled out.

LBJ and Ladybird got to the downtown sidewalk just out the Dallas hotel,
And my father was there in the middle of it, protecting LBJ and Ladybird too. My father got between Ladybird and the then nasty Republican Congressman John Tower,

My dad was about 6ft tall, skinny as a rail, likely weighed only about 150 lbs.
And Republican Congressman John Tower was a short small man.

All I known is, they got into a small struggle, as my father was keeping the loud mouth Republican John Tower away from Ladybird.
And the result was John Tower ended down on the sidewalk just outside the
glass door entry to the hotel, with my father walking away still protecting Ladybird and LBJ.

My father said, he was glad there was no photos taken that he knew of,
since he was a VP of that company, AND The Dallas Times Herald did report
on that Republicans crowd of ugly women and the men who came out of the bar,


Bill Moyers spoke of this in the Eulogy he gave

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1340948

…… It is the fall of 1960. We're in Dallas, where neither Kennedy nor Johnson are local heroes. We start across the street from the Adolphus to the Baker Hotel. The reactionary congressman from Dallas has organized a demonstration of women — pretty women, in costumes of red, white, and blue, waving little American flags above their cowboy hats. At first I take them to be cheerleaders having a good time. But suddenly they are an angry mob, snarling, salivating, spitting.