World Today Two Major Themes Scandal Direction
James Marlow analyzes the 1964 campaign highlighting two themes scandal and policy direction. He contrasts Johnson’s big government approach with Goldwater’s call for smaller government, notes Jenkins arrest, and explains shifts in campaign strategy and voter perception amid national security debates and intra party dynamics.
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Threat to LBJ traced to former mental patient
Corpus Christi AP Sheriff Johnnie Mitchell said an informer’s tip about a threat to shoot President Johnson involved one man, a former mental patient. Two ex-convicts, seized with a small arsenal at Julius Schmidt and his mother’s home, were charged with illegally possessing machine guns. Schmidt, 25, and Jerry Bird, 27, had ties to a 1955 murder case. they faced $5,000 bonds each. The mental patient allegedly sought an automatic weapon to target Johnson during a nearby campaign stop.
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Political Spots Cost 12 Per Cent Of TV Audience
AP reports three networks accept paid political broadcasts though audience dropoffs rise 12 percent versus entertainment. Nielsen ratings show Boranza and Bewitched top the last weeks of September with other new shows like Fusitive Gomer Pyle USSBLC and The Addams Family in the top ten.
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