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Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 6 (VI), 4/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • The Woods' involvement in LBJ's 1948 Senate campaign against Coke Stevenson; organizing a women's tea in Seguin for Lady Bird Johnson and her auto accident with Marietta Moody Brooks on the way to the tea; the Weinert family's control over support
  • and they rolled over in a ditch a time or two [see Brooks' account of the accident in her oral history interview]. Lady Bird--well, I've heard about it and somebody said that Marietta was down at Dr. Williams' office--she's not still living, is she? G: Yes. 2
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 5 (V), 4/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • get into the trip to Washington? W: Oh, he was going to go up there and go to work for Lyndon. VW: Was he in this car though? I thought it was just you and Lady Bird and Lyndon that went on this trip. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Claude Wild disagreed? Was it an issue of how to spend money or how to allocate time or which towns to visit or what issues to address? W: lady Bird just said in the past month or less that Claude Wild didn't want women working in the campaign, so she