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Johnston was born in Garyville in St. John the Baptist Parish in south [[Louisiana]].<ref name=papers/> His father, Erle Johnston, Sr. (1889-1962) and his mother, the former Grace Buchanan (1888-1970), are interred at Rose Hill Cemetery in Brookhaven in Lincoln County in southwestern Mississippi.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Johnston&GSfn=Erle&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=27&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=51989382&df=all&
Johnston was born in Garyville in St. John the Baptist Parish in south [[Louisiana]].<ref name=papers/> His father, Erle Johnston, Sr. (1889-1962) and his mother, the former Grace Buchanan (1888-1970), are interred at Rose Hill Cemetery in Brookhaven in Lincoln County in southwestern Mississippi.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Johnston&GSfn=Erle&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=27&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=51989382&df=all&
|title=Erle Johnston|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 14, 2016}}</ref> Erle Johnston, Sr., worked in the lumber industry and moved his wife and two sons, Erle and Bert, to [[Toledo]], [[Ohio]], and thereafter the capital city of [[Jackson, Mississippi|Jackson]], Mississippi, before they settled in 1928 in Grenada in northern Mississippi. Johnston attended Grenada High School, where he played on the [[baseball]] team and was a member of the band. He launched the school's first [[newspaper]] and while in high school reported part-time for the ''Grenada Daily-Star.'' He graduated in 1935 but was unable to meet the expenses of attending college.<ref name=papers/>
|title=Erle Johnston|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 14, 2016}}</ref> Erle Johnston, Sr., worked in the lumber industry and moved his wife and two sons, Erle and Bert, to [[Toledo]], [[Ohio]], and thereafter the capital city of [[Jackson]], Mississippi, before they settled in 1928 in Grenada in northern Mississippi. Johnston attended Grenada High School, where he played on the [[baseball]] team and was a member of the band. He launched the school's first [[newspaper]] and while in high school reported part-time for the ''Grenada Daily-Star.'' He graduated in 1935 but was unable to meet the expenses of attending college.<ref name=papers/>
==Journalism and political career==
==Journalism and political career==