Episode 285 Lyndon Johnson And The Box 13 Scandal AKA The Stolen 1948 Senate Primary Election

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

Coup D'etat, Documentary, Government, Ruby, History, Jfk, Murder, Kennedy, Mafia, President, Oswald, Dallas, Fbi, Society & Culture, Assassination, Cia, Johnson

4.6 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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This is our first episode covering Lyndon Johnson himself and selected parts of his own background. In today's episode (which is one of 2 episodes covering this event), we begin by telling the story of the stolen Democrat primary run off race in 1948 that occurred in Texas. The Box 13 scandal is a classic and blatant voter fraud case that propelled Lyndon Johnson ultimately to the Senate. And it revealed, on a national basis, the unbridled ambition of this man who would take outrageous and il...

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0:00.0	Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.
0:23.5	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast.
0:31.5	Today's episode is episode 285, and as we approach almost 300 episodes here at JFK, the Enduring Secret, I finally feel like we're beginning to turn the corner, even though
0:36.2	there's so much more yet to tell.
0:39.4	Still, I think there's more miles behind us now than there is ahead.
0:44.2	That is, when it comes to material covered and episodes planned.
0:48.4	Now, I've said that before, and I may just be fooling myself when it comes to figuring out
0:52.8	what's left to do here.
0:54.5	So as usual, don't hold me to it because, well, you know, you know how I like to wander.
1:00.9	But juicier things are still to come, finishing up Mexico City, the Oswald Escape Route,
1:06.9	Jack Ruby, and just going deeper on the CIA portions of this story, including what happened in
1:12.3	Florida, with J.M. Wave and the anti-Castro community there and in New Orleans, oh, I could go on and on.
1:20.0	And many of you have weighed in during those moments where I have asked for input.
1:25.1	One ask that still sticks out in my mind is an episode on all the mysterious
1:29.4	deaths that have occurred. And really, I can't wait. I'm getting excited just talking about all
1:35.6	these topics. But wait, there's still much to do right here before we leave the current set of
1:41.8	discussions. And what I mean by right here is our wander to understand more deeply who Lyndon Baines
1:48.8	Johnson really was and how he fits into all of this.
1:52.8	And today, we are going to address one of his more famous catapulting moments,
1:58.0	the Box 13 story or scandal. And the 1948 Senate election process,
2:04.9	I am doing my best not to attempt a mini biography of this man, Lyndon Johnson. And that's because
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