Rayburn

Deceased clients of Measures listed on IMDbPro include game-show hosts Wink Martindale and Gene Rayburn and legendary deejay Casey Kasem.

Hannah Shaw, an animal advocate known as "Kitten Lady," attends an event in Rayburn Building on bipartisan legislation to end the Department of Agriculture's scientific testing on kittens on June 7, 2018.

Over the next six months, I would visit the Library of Congress’s reading room, politely but relentlessly bug an archivist at the Sam Rayburn Library in Texas, and mine the diaries and memoirs of top congressional and military leaders, as well as the declassified history of the Manhattan Project commissioned by its director.

My first hope was that I could find one in letters or memos in the archives of Sam Rayburn, the legendary Texan who served as speaker at that time.

That’s how I made the acquaintance of a reference intern named Dion Kauffman at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas, Austin, where Rayburn’s papers are kept.