This Week In '66 - Lynda and George

 

With Lynn Peril

In addition to the usual round up of war protests and UFOs, this week’s deep dive is into the big celebrity relationship of 1966. No, not Mia and Frank, though that’s coming up soon enough. The relationship that grabbed newspaper headlines and gossip magazine speculation was that between actor George Hamilton and presidential daughter, Lynda Bird Johnson. From the end of 1965 through early 1967, the odd couple was everywhere, from Acapulco to the Oscars. 

CLOSING SONG

Linda

Jan and Dean

SHOW NOTES

Byers, Bill, “Not as an Escort; Hamilton Wants Fame as Actor,” Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Texas), August 17, 1966, 22. 

“Deputies Lose Race with UFO,” Oakland Tribune, April 18, 1966, 6. 

Getze, George, “Re-Creation of Dead People Predicted in Future; Exact Duplication of Men, Women After Thousands of Years in Tomb Seen,” The Los Angeles Times, April 12, 1966, 29, 

De Wolf, Rose, “There’s Money in It; Beat Bands Growing With Hair,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 11, 1966, 25. 

“Lynda Byrd Ired at Reports of Pre-Yule Nuptials,” Arizona Daily Star, April 30, 1966, 5. 

“Lynda Byrd,” New Castle News (New Castle, Pennsylvania), November 10, 1965, 19. 

“Lynda Byrd Now Jet Set Swinger?” The Amarillo Globe-Times (Amarillo, Texas), February 23, 1966, 11.

“Near Riot by Berkeley VDC,” Oakland Tribune, April 13, 1966, 1. 

“Sacrifice Effort Fails,” Globe-Gazette (Mason City, Iowa), April 11, 1966, 18. 

Scott, Vernon, “Lynda Swings With Hollywood Set for Birthday Fling,” Lancaster Eagle-Gazette (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), March 19, 1966, 2. 

Scott, Vernon, “Lynda Bird Johnson’s Hollywood Beauty Treatment,” Ladies Home Journal, July 1966, 62.

Smith, Liz, “Lynda Bird Leaves the Nest,” Cosmopolitan, October 1967, 95. 

“Sneeze Victim to Travel to Arizona in Quest of Relief,” The Oakland Tribune, April 14, 1966, 8.