The front page of the West Schuylkill Herald, January 25, 1973, with a portrait of former President Lyndon Baines Johnson, and a brief article announcing his death.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON DIES OF HEART ATTACK IN TEXAS
Lyndon Baines Johnson, who rose from humble beginnings as the son of a Texas farmer, to the highest position attainable in the country, died of a heart attack in San Antonio, Texas, on Monday, January 22 at the age of 64.
LBJ will be remembered for many things, among them the greatest achievements in civil rights laws since Abraham Lincoln’s declaration of Emancipation.
The frustration of his presidency was the war in Viet Nam and which Johnson was unable to terminate. It is said that it was this failure that caused him not to accept his party’s nomination for reelection to the presidency after he completed the full term to which he had been elected by the biggest popular-vote majority in US history up to that time.
Born near Stonewall, Texas, he worked his way through Southwest Texas State Teachers College and after teaching school for two years went to Washington as a secretary to Rep. Richard Kleberg of Texas.
In the early days of President Franklin D. Roosevelt‘s “new deal” times, he was director for Texas in the National Youth Administration and became a Texas Congressman in 1937. During World War II he was decorated with the silver star by Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
Elected to the US Senate in 1948, he became majority leader in 1954 and was one of the most skillful and successful majority leaders the Senate ever had.
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From Newspapers.com.
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