Hostages held by Iranian militants for 444 days were appalled to learn that former Texas Gov. John Connally urged their captors through backchannels to delay...
The crisis spawned ABC’s Nightline, providing a nightly update on Carter’s inability to end the humiliation.“If we had gotten the hostages home, we’d have won,” Carter’s White House Communications Director, Gerald Rafshoon, toldThomas Lankford, a lawyer for the hostages and their families since 1999, said Monday that delaying the release could only have inflicted harm.
Gov. John Connally with Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes at the inaugural ceremony in Austin on January 17, 1967. At left is Barnes' wife. “If it did happen, we must make sure that this never happens again,” said Sickmann, now 66 and a resident of St. Louis, where he works fora group that provides scholarships to families of fallen and disabled service members.
Connally, who died in 1993, served two terms as Texas’ chief executive. He ran Lyndon Johnson’s campaigns in Texas and served briefly as secretary of the Navy under John F. Kennedy before running for governor. He’d held the job for 10 months when Kennedy was assassinated in downtown Dallas. Connally, in the front seat, was badly wounded.
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