U. S. Senator Ralph W. Yarborough signed letter to Warren Commission

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This souvenir account is of US Texas Senator Ralph W. Yarborough's affidavit of what he witnessed in Dallas during President Kennedy's visit to Dallas, Texas in November, 1963. This souvenir transcript signed was prepared by this eBay seller and was personally taken to the former US Senator from Texas (when he was retired from political life) by an East Texas autograph dealer, Michael Minor, co-owner of Lone Star Autographs in Kaufman Texas ... who personally presented and witnessed the Senator signing this and other souvenir items of a similar nature in 1993.
Yarborough was not a formal witness to the proceedings of the Warren Commission but this response was as a result of an oral request of attorneys serving the Warren Commission.
This item is 8.5" x 11" and comes on 100% cotton off white paper and a copy of authenticity from Lone Star Autographs.
“ Yarborough rode in the Dallas motorcade in which
John F. Kennedy was assassinated
on November 22, 1963. He was in a
convertible
with
Vice President
Lyndon B. Johnson,
Lady Bird Johnson
(who sat between Yarborough and Johnson),
United States Secret Service
agent
Rufus Youngblood
, and Hurchel Jacks of the Texas State Highway Patrol. From the start of the President's tour of Texas, Yarborough considered that he had been slighted by some of the arrangements and so, in the early stages, refused to ride with Johnson, despite repeated pleas by Youngblood.
[13]
His decision, underpinned by a long-standing feud with Governor Connally,
[14]
an old friend and erstwhile ally of Johnson, caused embarrassment to both the President and Vice President and drew considerable diversionary attention in the press.
[15]
According to Johnson, Kennedy considered Yarborough's behavior "an outrage"
[16]
and there is some evidence of a heated exchange between Kennedy and Johnson the night before the President's death. According to Johnson's biographer,
Robert Caro
, the following morning in
Fort Worth
, Kennedy intervened directly with Yarborough, making clear that, if he valued his friendship, he would ride with Johnson when the party reached Dallas. Then, during the short flight from Fort Worth, Kennedy persuaded Connally to give Yarborough a more prominent role in some of the later functions planned in
Austin
.
[17]
In the ensuing motorcade, the car carrying Yarborough and the Vice President was two cars behind the
presidential limousine
carrying Kennedy and Connally (who was seriously wounded during the attack on the President)”.
Source: Wikipedia link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Yarborough