‘Window into history’: Tapes detail LBJ’s stolen election

By JAMIE STENGLE
Associated Press

DALLAS (AP) — In 1977, Associated Press reporter James W. Mangan had an exclusive interview with a South Texas election judge who detailed certifying false votes for Lyndon B. Johnson nearly three decades earlier. Johnson had won by an 87-vote margin in the 1948 Democratic primary runoff. Mangan’s story made headlines across the country. The audio recordings from his interviews for the story were posted Thursday on the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum’s archival website. Mangan’s family found the labeled cassette tapes at his San Antonio home after his death in 2015. They donated the tapes last summer to the library on the University at Texas at Austin campus.