Means of Ascent (105 page)

Magnolia lease:
Deed Records of Kimble County, Texas, Direct Index from Jan. 1, 1938, to Dec. 31, 1955, Deed Record, Volume 44, pp. 358–66.

$19,571:
The amount is shown by the federal documentary stamps attached to the lease; by Stevenson’s income tax return—Internal Revenue Service Form 1040—for 1939, p. 2; by his handwritten tabulation of “Income—1939” found with the return; and by Stevenson’s monthly bank statement for May, 1939, from the Charles Schreiner Bank of Kerrville. (Carbon copies in author’s possession.)
Stevenson’s tax returns for the ten years covered by the lease and his handwritten tabulations of yearly income show only one other entry for oil-connected income: $647 from an unspecified “oil lease” in 1948. I could find no record showing what this refers to, but it was apparently the amount paid by another oil company for a very brief lease on another tract of land on the ranch (Stevenson, Jr., interview).
Sixteen leases:
Ramsey
Randolph to Caro, undated, “On May 10, 1939, Coke R. Stevenson and wife, Fay Stevenson …”; Ernest Boyett, Coke Stevenson, Jr., interviews.
Lottie Bolt Ranch lease:
Ibid.
, Ramsey Randolph interview.
“The Humble lease”; “pretty low”; consistent:
Ramsey Randolph interview. And see p. 210 of this book.

Wells drilled for decades:
Ownership Map of Kimble County, Texas, 1972, in County Courthouse; Stevenson, Jr., Boyett interviews.
Income tax returns:
Carbon copies of Stevenson’s returns for every year between 1927 and 1950—Internal Revenue Service Form 1040—are in the author’s possession, as are Stevenson’s own handwritten tabulations of income and expenses for many of those years, tabulations which
evidently formed the basis for the returns.
$13,139:
IRS Form 1040—“United States Individual Income Tax Return—1942—Coke Stevenson.”

Estate and will:
Dept. of the Treasury—Internal Revenue Service—Form 706, “United States Estate Tax Return—Coke R. Stevenson (Decedent)”; “Account Adjustment”—Document Locator N. 74647–348–00103–7, Jan. 23, 1978; Dean E. Morrow, Acting Director, Internal Revenue Service Center—Southwest Region, to Marguerite K. Stevenson, executor, Jan. 5, 1978; “In Re: Estate of
Coke R. Stevenson, Deceased, No. 1170, In the County Court of Kimble County, Texas, Sitting in Matters Probate, Oct. 21, 1975 Application for Probate of Will and for Letters Testamentary, July 7th, 1975”; “Last Will and Testament—Know all men by these presents: That I, Coke R. Stevenson, a resident of Kimble County …,” Dec. 3, 1974, filed July 7, 1975, Maxine Hancock, County Clerk. (And attached documents. Copies of all in author’s
possession.)

Money in Mrs. Stevenson’s own name:
“CRS-MS Financial Status, June 28, 1975,” compiled by Mrs. Stevenson.

“As I have said before”:
Stevenson, quoted in
DMN
, July 27, 1948.
“I know of no changes”:
Stevenson, quoted in
DMN
, July 21, 1948.

Abilene Reporter-News
,
11.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3

Acero, Enriqueta

“active campaigners”,
12.1
,
12.2

see also
“
missionaries
”

Adams, Harry Lee,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3
,
14.4
,
14.5
,
15.1

advertising:

on KTCB, in return for government favors,
6.1
,
6.2

in political campaigns: newspapers,
9.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
; radio,
itr.1
,
9.2
,
11.3
,
11.4
,
11.5
,
12.4
,
12.5
,
12.6
,
12.7

Ainsworth, W. W.,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3
,
16.1

Alabama, racial crisis in,
itr.1
–xvii,
itr.2
,
itr.3
,
itr.4

Alamo, battle of

Alice, Tex.,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
16.1

1948 primary voting in

1948 runoff election in,
13.1
; County Democratic Committee enjoined from recount and correction,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3
,
14.4
,
15.1

Stevenson’s investigating team in,
14.1
,
14.2
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14.3
,
14.4
,
15.1

vote-fraud probe by Federal Master-in-Chancery,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3
,
16.1
,
16.2
,
16.3

Alice News
,
15.1
,
15.2
,
16.1

Allred, James V.,
1.1
,
2.1
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2.2
,
8.1
,
15.1
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15.2
passim
,
15.3
,
15.4
,
15.5
,
15.6

American Federation of Labor (AFL),
7.1
,
11.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3

American General Insurance Company

American Legion

Anderson, Jack,
6.1
,
12.1

Anderson, Robert B.,
6.1
,
6.2

Anderson, Lt. Col. Samuel,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

anti-lynching bill (1947),
7.1
,
10.1

anti-unionism, in Texas,
11.1
,
11.2
,
12.1

anti-war movement,
itr.1
,
itr.2
,
itr.3

AP (Associated Press),
3.1
,
5.1
,
7.1
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11.1
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11.2
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15.1

Salas interview,
16.1
,
16.2
,
16.3

Archer, Judge Roy,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3
,
16.1

Arnold, Fortas and Porter

Arnold, Thurman,
7.1
,
15.1

Atomic Energy Commission

Austin, Tex.,
1.1
,
6.1

Air Force Base,
4.1
,
4.2
,
6.1

LBJ’s land purchase in

LBJ’s 1948 campaigning in,
11.1
,
12.1

radio stations,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

Stevenson in,
8.1
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11.1
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12.1

Austin American-Statesman
,
2.1
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8.1
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11.1
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11.2
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11.3
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18.1

Austin Tribune
,
6.1

Australia (LBJ’s wartime mission in),
2.1
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3.1
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3.2

ballot box

irregularities,
9.1
,
9.2
,
11.1
,
13.1

morality of,
12.1
,
15.1
,
16.1

1984 probe by Masters-in-Chancery,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3
,
15.4
,
16.1

stuffing of,
1.1
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9.1
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9.2
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14.1
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15.1
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15.2
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15.3
,
16.1
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16.2
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16.3

vs. voting machine,
13.1
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13.2
,
13.3

see also
Box 13

Baren, Cpl. Harry,
3.1
,
3.2

Barker, J. W.,
2.1
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2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
2.5

Barr, James E.,
6.1
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6.2
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6.3

Barron, John

Bataan Peninsula,
2.1
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2.2

Bay of Pigs episode

Beaumont Enterprise
,
1.1
,
12.1

“Beer, Inc.”

Belden poll,
11.1

Feb. 1948

May 1948,
10.1
,
11.1

June 1948,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3

Aug. 1948
, and
n
.

Bell Helicopter Corporation,
11.1
,
11.2

Bellinger, Valmo

Benavides, Ernesto

Bench, Lieut. Willis G.

Benefield, J. H.

Benjamin, David

Bergstrom Air Force Base,
6.1
,
7.1

Biddle, Francis

Big and Little Inch Pipelines (Brown & Root)

Birdwell, Sherman

Birmingham, Ala.

Black, Justice Hugo L.,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
15.1

and LBJ’s appeal of injunction,
15.1
,
15.2
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15.3
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15.4
,
15.5
,
15.6
,
15.7
,
16.1
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16.2
,
16.3
,
16.4
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16.5

Black, Josephine

blacks:

distrust of LBJ’s commitment

Stevenson and

vote in 1948 Texas runoff election,
13.1
,
13.2
,
14.1

voter registration in South

voting rights,
itr.1
,
itr.2
,
7.1

see also
civil rights movement

“bloc vote”, Texas,
9.1
,
11.1
,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
14.1
,
14.2

see also
ethnic vote

Blundell, James

“Board of Education” (in House of Representatives),
1.1
,
1.2
,
5.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3

Boatner, Charles,
11.1
,
11.2
,
12.1

Boehringer, Eugenia

Bolling, Richard

Bolton, Paul,
10.1
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10.2
,
10.3
,
10.4
,
11.1
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11.2
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12.1
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12.2
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12.3

Bowie, Jim

Box 13 (ballot box),
15.1
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15.2
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15.3
,
15.4
,
15.5
,
16.1
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16.2
,
16.3
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16.4

LBJ’s steps to prevent opening of,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3
,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3
,
15.4
,
16.1

nationwide attention on,
16.1
,
16.2
,
16.3

“Box 13” (Salas manuscript)

Boyett, Ernest,
8.1
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9.1
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11.1
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11.2
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11.3
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12.1
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12.2
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12.3
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12.4
,
12.5
,
12.6
,
13.1
,
14.1
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15.1
,
17.1

Braswell, Sam, Jr.

Bravo, Manuel,
9.1
,
15.1

Bridges, Harry

Broeter, Judge Lorenz,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3

Brooks, Marietta,
12.1
,
12.2

Brooks, Pierce

Brooks County, Tex.,
9.1
,
11.1
,
13.1
,
13.2

Brown, George,
1.1
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1.2
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1.3
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3.1
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6.1
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6.2
,
7.1
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7.2
,
9.1
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14.1
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14.2

as IRS target,
1.1
,
12.1

and KTBC purchase by LBJ,
6.1
,
6.2

and LBJ’s 1948 Senate race,
7.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
12.1
,
13.1
,
14.1
,
14.2

on LBJ

Brown, Herman,
1.1
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1.2
,
1.3
,
2.1
,
4.1
,
6.1
,
8.1
,
11.1
,
14.1
,
15.1

contributions to 1941 LBJ campaign,
1.1
,
9.1
,
9.2

as IRS target,
1.1
,
12.1

and KTBC advertising,
6.1
,
6.2

and LBJ’s 1948 Senate race,
7.1
,
9.1
,
13.1
,
14.1
,
14.2
; financial support,
9.2
,
12.1
,
12.2

Brown, H. S. (Hank)

Brown & Root,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
7.1
,
13.1
,
15.1

federal contracts for,
1.1
,
1.2
,
4.1
,
6.1
,
9.1

financial contributions through LBJ to DCCC

financial support to LBJ,
1.1
,
1.2
,
4.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
12.1
,
12.2

influence,
8.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
14.1

as IRS target,
1.1
,
12.1

state contracts for

wartime problems

Brown County, Tex.,
14.1
,
15.1
,
15.2