Daily Archives: June 28, 2011

LBJ narrowly loses special Senate election

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Ot0orIFUk
LBJ Campaign 1941

(Saturday, June 28, 1941) — Texas Governor and radio personality W. Lee “Pappy” O’Daniel narrowly defeated U.S. Rep. Lyndon Johnson today for the U.S. Senate in a special election by only 1,311 votes (click here to watch “American Experience: The Presidents: LBJ” — the 1941 race starts at 16:12)

Mob figure Colombo shot At New York rally


WNEW 1978 JOE COLOMBO OBITUARY Bill Jorgensen

(Monday, June 28, 1971) — Before thousands of stunned spectators and amid heavy police security, Joseph A. Colombo Sr., the 48-year-old reputed chief of a Brooklyn Mafia family, was shot in the head and critically wounded today at Columbus Circle in New York City less than an hour before a massive Italian-American civil rights rally began.