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  John B. Connally Center
John B. Connally, Jr., thirty-eighth governor of the state of Texas, was born on a farm near Floresville, Texas, one of eight children of Lela and John Bowden Connally, Sr.
Connally was appointed U.S. Secretary of the Navy by President John F. Kennedy in 1961.
Known as the "education governor", John Connally provided the leadership that has made The University of Texas one of the premier centers of learning in the nation today and laid the foundation for an unprecedented era of growth and prosperity for the state.
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  John Connally - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Connally was born in Floresville, Texas, and graduated from The University of Texas School of Law where he served as student body president.
Connally served as governor from 1963 to 1969.
Connally announced in January 1979 that he would be a candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 1980.
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 John Connally.html
Connally pulled me over into her lap and I was facing forward with my head slightly turned up to where I could see the driver and Roy Kellerman on his right, but I could not see into the back seat, so I didn't see either one of them.
Governor Connally, on your recitation of the events on the day of the assassination, you had come to the point where the shooting was concluded and the automobile had started to accelerate toward the hospital.
Connally holding me, I suddenly lurched out of her arms and tried to stand upright to get myself out of the car.
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 John F. Kennedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 November 22, 1963), often referred to as John F. Kennedy, JFK or Jack Kennedy, was the 35th President of the United States.
John F. Kennedy voted for final passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, after having earlier voted for the "Jury Trial Amendment", which effectively rendered the Act toothless, because convictions for violations could not be obtained.
John F. Kennedy University opened in Pleasant Hill, California, in 1964 as a school for adult education.
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 Texas Monthly November 1979: The Truth About John Connally
Connally did what he said he’d do, and for a while Johnson did what he said he’d do, and for two crucial weeks of a race so close that it would be decided by 87 votes, candidate and campaign manager did not communicate.
Connally was never tied to the bribe itself, nor was he registered as a lobbyist, but as Sid Richardson’s lawyer he orchestrated the campaign to pass the bill.
Connally’s appointments to his 25-member Committee on Education Beyond the High School was a guidebook to power in Texas: H.B. Zachary of San Antonio, George R. Brown of Houston, the chairmen of the boards of Humble Oil, Texas Instruments, General Telephone, and Shamrock Oil and Gas, the president of Ling-Temco-Vought, and on and on.
www.texasmonthly.com /mag/issues/1979-11-01/feature3.php   (9355 words)

  
 Texas Governors - Modern Texas - Part 1 - Texas State Library
Connally was commissioned in the U.S. Navy Reserve during World War II and served as a fighter director aboard aircraft carriers in the Pacific, enduring nine major battles.
Connally saw education as the most important way to address Texas' social problems, and succeeded in financing higher teacher salaries, better libraries, and improved research and doctoral programs in the universities.
Connally was forced to declare bankruptcy and hold a highly publicized auction of his belongings.
www.tsl.state.tx.us /governors/modern/index.html   (1555 words)

  
 U.S. Treasury - Biography of Secretary John B. Connally
Connally came to the Treasury Department with a distinguished career of achievement in public life and in the private sector.
Connally became one of the most influential members of the Cabinet, and was designated chief spokesman of the Nixon Administration in matters relating to the economic program to halt inflation and spur industrial productivity, a program he helped design and present to the Congress.
Connally rose above partisan politics to serve on President Nixon's Advisory Council on Executive Organization in 1969-1970, and subsequently was appointed by the President to be a member of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board in 1970.
www.ustreas.gov /education/history/secretaries/jbconnally.html   (309 words)

  
 John Connally Summary
John B. Connally, Jr., one of seven children, was born in Floresville, Texas, on February 27, 1917, to John Bowden Connally, a tenant farmer, and Lela (Wright) Connally.
Connally was born in Floresville, Texas, and graduated from The University of Texas School of Law where he served as student body president.
Connally sought the Republican nomination for President in 1980, campaigning on a pledge to bring the U.S. hostages home from Iran by any means necessary — refusing even to rule out the use of nuclear weapons — but withdrew from the race after only a few states had held primary elections.
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 John Connally
Connally was convinced his involvement in the Watergate Scandal was to blame for this poor result and decided to retire from politics.
John Connally: The only way that I could ever reconcile my memory of what happened and what occurred, with respect to the one bullet theory, is that it had to be the second bullet that might have hit us both.
Nellie Connally, the last surviving passenger of the car in which President Kennedy was assassinated, is reasserting her belief that the Warren Commission was wrong about one bullet striking both JFK and her husband, former Governor John Connally.
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 Handbook of Texas Online:
John Bowden Connally, Jr., thirty-eighth governor of the state of Texas, was born on a farm near Floresville, Texas, on February 27, 1917, one of eight children of John Bowden and Lela (Wright) Connally, Sr.
Connally served as secretary of the navy in 1961 in the cabinet of Democrat President John F. Kennedy.
The fiasco led Connally to acknowledge that "we were moving too far too fast and paying dearly for it." He declared bankruptcy, and he and Nellie held a globally publicized auction of their holdings and expensive personal belongings to apply the proceeds to their debt.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/CC/fcosf.html   (1642 words)

  
 Texas Monthly September 1973: John Connally Between the Acts
Texas has known John Connally a lot longer than have the rest of the country and the world, and right here, down home, is the place to begin understanding what gives the man his charisma, his energies, and his power.
In examining Connally, it is at times difficult to separate the conscious effort from the natural inclination, since part of Connally's image is the conscious creation of the politician who believes firmly in style, and part is the private man who is going to do as he damn well pleases.
Connally's former aide and sometime business associate Mike Meyers says that for years Connally sipped cokes at parties, but even his close friends, seeing him with a glass in his hand, thought it was whiskey.
www.texasmonthly.com /mag/issues/1973-09-01/feature.php   (1489 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
Nellie Connally, widow of Texas governor John Connally, the only surviving passenger from that blood-stained presidential vehicle shares her gripping moment by moment memories.
Nellie is the widow of the former Texas governor, former secretary of the Navy John Connally.
John and I were in separate seats with a space between us and were not quite as mobile as Jack and Jackie.
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 CNN.com - Transcripts
John was in front of the president and I was in front of Ms.
CONNALLY: Not as much as I did -- you know, I did for -- Houston just opened her arms to me, took me in after John died, kept me -- I was chairman, co-chairman, honorary chairman of everything a lady could be in Houston.
CONNALLY: And when we arrived in Dallas in the long motorcade, the people couldn't have been friendlier; the crowds couldn't have been more wonderful, more generous in their reaction to the president.
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 Nellie Connally - That Day in Dallas
John Connally began his autobiography with the story of the Kennedy assassination, as that's what most people always wanted to know about.
Connally was grateful for a friend during this seemingly surrealistic tragic day.
Connally related, "MY husband was slowly recovering from the gunshot wound that Oswald have given him!" Very shortly it was announced that Oswald was dead.
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 Amazon.com: In History's Shadow: An American Odyssey: Books: John Connally,Mickey Herskovitz,Mickey Herskowitz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Connally died in June 1993 of complications from the wounds he received when John F. Kennedy was assassinated 30 years ago.
Connally really is candid and that is refreshing, he realized that he was a the foot of power, and as he watched LBJ assend he was wise enough to stay close to the ultimate power.
No one disputes Connally's status as a capable individual; he is seen as perhaps as too capable by democrats who witnessed his change of party and by republicans who were skeptical of his past affilations with the very top of the opposition party.
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 John-F-Kennedy.net - The 35th President Of The United States
Governor Connally was hit in the back, the bullet exiting from the right side of his chest, transiting his right wrist, and lodging in his left thigh.
John Connally testified that he heard the shot that hit Kennedy, turned around and looked over his right shoulder, and was then hit by a subsequent bullet.
A bullet fired from the Oswald weapon and passing through the neck of John Kennedy, as the Warren Commission claimed that this one did, would move at a speed of 1.772' to 1.779' per second according to the Warren Report and the FBI expert's testimony.
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 Britain.tv Wikipedia - John Connally
During the Vietnam War, Connally hawkishly urged Johnson to "finish"?title=it by whatever military means necessary.
Both he and his wife, Idanell Brill "Nellie"?title=Connally, who was also in the car, later stated they heard all the shots coming from the same direction.
That year he famously told a delegation of Europeans worried about exchange rate fluctuations that the dollar is "our currency, but your problem."?title=[1] He served as secretary until 1972.
www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=John_Connally   (905 words)

  
 JFK Assassination - Biographies
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A witness of John F. Kennedy's assassination whose statement is confirmed by those of Roger D. Craig, Carolyn Walthers and James R. Worrel...
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 John Connally for President 1980 Campaign Brochure
John Connally has been forged for a destiny of leadership.
Attained the rank of Lt. Commander, and was decorated with Bronze Star and Legion of Merit with Combat V. With other veterans, organized Radio Station KVET in Austin, Texas and served as its president and general manager 1946-1947.
John Connally has been tempered through a lifetime of experience to provide the vision and leadership that America so desperately needs for the 80s.
www.4president.org /brochures/connally1980brochure.htm   (835 words)

  
 Governor John Connally - Texas State Library
This undated photo was probably taken during Connally's tenure as Secretary of the Navy in 1961.
During World War II, Connally had attained the rank of lieutenant commander in the Navy.
After the war, Connally quickly built a reputation as a political mastermind, working on behalf of Lyndon Johnson in his campaigns and in LBJ's fight for control of the Texas Democratic party.
www.tsl.state.tx.us /governors/modern/connally-p01.html   (126 words)

  
 JFK Assassination Photo Gallery
John Connally, in Miami, Florida, USA March 8, 1980
John and Nellie Connally in Parade During Texas Sesquicentennial
Earle Cabell, wife of Dallas' mayor, waits outside Parkland Hospital in the limo in which she rode in the motorcade.
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 John F. Kennedy and the Monolithic and Ruthless Conspiracy - Signs of the Times - Wed, 22 Nov, 2006
Governor John Connally and his wife Nellie were already seated in the open convertible as the Kennedys entered and sat behind them.
The film also graphically demonstrated that the president and Texas Governor John Connally, sitting in the jump seat in front of him, were struck by bullets within three-quarters of a second of each other, which meant that there had to be more than one weapon.
John Kennedy was on his way to give a speech on that Sunny afternoon in Dallas, Texas, 43 years ago.
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 Proving Conspiracy
The nature of John Connally’s wounds are another topic of debate among the so-called critics of the Warren Report.
Connally may have been coached into telling that white lie, or maybe he made the statement in his mind—thought it, but didn’t actually say it.
The bullet that hit Connally was obviously fired from the direction of the Texas School Book Depository because each of Connally’s wounds was downward and to the left from the previous one.
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 Assassinat de JFK - Les acteurs du 22 novembre 1963
Frère du maire de Dallas Earle Cabell, ex-directeur-adjoint de la CIA viré par John F. Kennedy après l'échec de l'invasion de Cuba dans la B...
Témoin de l'assassinat de John F. Kennedy qui a fait une déclaration corroborant les témoignages de Roger D. Craig, Carolyn Walther et James...
Chirurgien qui s'est occupé de John F. Kennedy au Parkland Memorial Hospital.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Connally, John Bowden, Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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[Connally, John Bowden, JR.], 1917-93, U.S. public official, b.
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