Fall of the Duke of Duval

The name Parr may not be familiar to most readers, but many know Lyndon Johnson's first U.S. Senate election was tainted: this 1948 "e;Box 13"e; fraud was perpetrated in the town of Alice in Jim Wells County, Texas, by George Parr, the "e;duke"e; of neighboring Duval County. Clark, an assistant federal prosecutor under U.S. Attorney William Sessions (later FBI director) in the1970s, played a key r...