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Title: Handwritten draft remarks, undated [September 1963]
Identifier: camh-dob-001311
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Political Campaigns
Dates: 1963-09
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Handwritten draft of introductory remarks delivered by Jack Brooks when Vice President Lyndon Johnson and Second Lady Lady Bird Johnson visited the South Texas State Fairgrounds. This was the first visit by a sitting Vice President to the Second Congressional District of Texas.

Title: Remarks of Jack Brooks introducing Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson at the South Texas State Fairgrounds, September 28, 1963
Identifier: camh-dob-001525
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Democratic party (U.S.)
Dates: 1963-09-28
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Finalized speech of an earlier version [camh-dob-001312] with handwritten notes and edits. In his speech, Brooks introduces Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Second Lady Lady Bird Johnson, calling Johnson a "long-time friend" to Southeast Texas. He highlights Johnson's accomplishments. Johnson became President fifty-five days later when John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963.