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Anne C. Crews<br>
Anne C. Crews<br>
Catherine C. Morris<br>
Catherine C. Morris<br>
'''Parents'''<br>
Thomas Jack and Mary Crichton<br>
'''Alma mater''':<br>
'''Alma mater''':<br>
Clifton Ellis Byrd High School<br>
Clifton Ellis Byrd High School<br>
"I walked over to Elm Street to see the Kennedy delegation. . . . President Kennedy and [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis|Jackie]] made a handsome couple. She was resplendent in her pink dress and pink pillbox hat. The crowds on the sidewalks applauded, and waved as they drove by. . . . I entered the hotel . . . The room was almost filled, and people were seated at the individual tables. . . . We had the invocation, and many guests began to eat their lunch. Suddenly we heard sirens screaming and someone from outside ran up to the head table and excitedly said, 'The President, Vice President, and Governor Connally have all been shot.' I stood and announced the news. There was stunned silence in the room. Someone then produced a radio, and the news confirmed that the President had been shot.. . . "<ref>Jack Crichton, ''The Republican-Democrat Political Campaigns in Texas in 1964,'' self-published, 2004, pp. 7-8, ISBN 1-4184-2574-5 (paperback).</ref>
"I walked over to Elm Street to see the Kennedy delegation. . . . President Kennedy and [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis|Jackie]] made a handsome couple. She was resplendent in her pink dress and pink pillbox hat. The crowds on the sidewalks applauded, and waved as they drove by. . . . I entered the hotel . . . The room was almost filled, and people were seated at the individual tables. . . . We had the invocation, and many guests began to eat their lunch. Suddenly we heard sirens screaming and someone from outside ran up to the head table and excitedly said, 'The President, Vice President, and Governor Connally have all been shot.' I stood and announced the news. There was stunned silence in the room. Someone then produced a radio, and the news confirmed that the President had been shot.. . . "<ref>Jack Crichton, ''The Republican-Democrat Political Campaigns in Texas in 1964,'' self-published, 2004, pp. 7-8, ISBN 1-4184-2574-5 (paperback).</ref>
==Gubernatorial race==
==Gubernatorial race==
Crichton strongly supported the [[Barry Goldwater]] presidential candidacy: "In my opinion Goldwater would have made a great president. He would either have withdrawn our presence in [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]] or gone whole hog to win it, instead of the piecemeal strategy of the Johnson administration that so hampered our military leaders as they in effect were not allowed to win the Vietnam conflict."<ref>Crichton, p. 48.</ref>
Crichton strongly supported the [[Barry Goldwater]] presidential candidacy: "In my opinion Goldwater would have made a great president. He would either have withdrawn our presence in [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]] or gone whole hog to win it, instead of the piecemeal strategy of the Johnson administration that so hampered our military leaders as they in effect were not allowed to win the Vietnam conflict."<ref>Crichton, p. 48.</ref>
===Crichton's 13 Points===
===Crichton's 13 political points===
In the campaign, Crichton focused on these points:<br>
In the campaign, Crichton focused on these points:<br>
* (11) higher public school teacher pay<br>
* (11) higher public school teacher pay<br>
* (12) development of a two-party system<br>
* (12) development of a two-party system<br>
*(13) ethics in state government.<ref>Crichton, p. 58.</ref>
* (13) ethics in state government.<ref>Crichton, p. 58.</ref>
During the campaign, Crichton traveled to Junction in Kimble County to meet with former Democratic Governor Coke Robert Stevenson (1888-1975), the official loser by eighty-seven disputed votes in the 1948 runoff primary for the U.S. Senate against Lyndon Johnson. Stevenson had supported [[John Tower]] in Tower's unsuccessful 1960 senatorial general election against Johnson and was backing Goldwater in 1964 as well in the presidential contest. Stevenson told Crichton that the 1948 election "is an important part of American history, for it got Lyndon to the Senate, which he later controlled, and was a stepping stone to his becoming President. As for me, I was depressed for quite a while, but in retrospect it has allowed me to enjoy my ranch and my young daughter. With that, we had another bourbon and branch water, and I thanked him and departed."<ref>Crichton, pp. 35-37.</ref>
During the campaign, Crichton traveled to Junction in Kimble County to meet with former Democratic Governor Coke Robert Stevenson (1888-1975), the official loser by eighty-seven disputed votes in the 1948 runoff primary for the U.S. Senate against Lyndon Johnson. Stevenson had supported [[John Tower]] in Tower's unsuccessful 1960 senatorial general election against Johnson and was backing Goldwater in 1964 as well in the presidential contest. Stevenson told Crichton that the 1948 election "is an important part of American history, for it got Lyndon to the Senate, which he later controlled, and was a stepping stone to his becoming President. As for me, I was depressed for quite a while, but in retrospect it has allowed me to enjoy my ranch and my young daughter. With that, we had another bourbon and branch water, and I thanked him and departed."<ref>Crichton, pp. 35-37.</ref>