The Box 13 scandal was a political scandal that occurred in Jim Wells County, Texas, during the 1948 United States Senate elections, regarding disputed votes in a Democratic primary …

2023年3月31日 · The statement comes from Luis Salas, who was the election judge for Jim Wells County’s notorious Box 13, which produced just enough votes in the 1948 Texas Democratic …

2023年4月1日 · The story, which made front pages across the country, pulled back the curtain on the razor-thin victory that had drawn suspicions ever since election officials in rural Jim Wells …

2023年4月1日 · DALLAS (AP) — The story was a blockbuster: A former Texas voting official was on the record detailing how nearly three decades earlier, votes were falsified to give then …

2023年4月1日 · Lawrence said much is now known about Box 13, thanks to both Mangan's 1977 story and research done later by LBJ biographer Robert Caro, who “essentially reaffirmed” …

1990年3月4日 · FOR THE past 40 years, the story of Box 13 in tiny Alice, Texas, has stood as one of the great mysteries and richest tales in American politics. It is the story of how Lyndon …

2018年11月14日 · On election night, Sept. 2, 1948, in the Democrat Primary runoff against former Texas Governor Coke Stevenson, it appeared LBJ lost. Then, mysteriously, a box of …

2013年1月23日 · Those 201 votes gave LBJ the victory over Stevenson, and the rest is history. The results made headlines nationwide, as there were allegations of fraud. A petition for …

In 1948, a heated Texas Senate primary comes down to a very mysterious box of ballots found in Jim Wells County — which conveniently put Lyndon Johnson ahead by just a few votes.

2020年3月15日 · Then six days after the election, with Stevenson holding a slim lead, the Election Bureau in Austin got a telegram saying that Jim Wells County officials discovered some …