Special Investigation Committee on the Reburial of Felix Longoria reports and routing correspondence, 1949.

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Special Investigation Committee on the Reburial of Felix Longoria reports and routing correspondence, 1949.

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The Texas House of Representatives is one arm of the Legislature of the State of Texas (the other being the Texas Senate), which the Texas Constitution (Article III, Section 1) vests with all legislative power of the state. In February 1949, the Texas House of Representatives passed House Simple Resolution 68, 51st Texas Legislature, Regular Session, to create an investigating committee in regard to the reburial of Felix Longoria, a U.S. soldier from Texas killed in the Philippines during World War II, to establish the accuracy of reports of discrimination in the matter which had received international publicity. These records consist of the majority and minority reports of the Special Investigation Committee on the Reburial of Felix Longoria and accompanying routing correspondence, 1949. The reports are typewritten copies sent to U.S. Senator Lyndon B. Johnson by Texas State Representative Abraham Kazen, Jr. on the day the reports were filed in the Texas House, April 7, 1949. Copies of the letter from Kazen to Johnson on that date, and a reply from Johnson four days later, accompany the reports. The majority report includes a paragraph crossed out but still readable, that did not appear in the published report in the House Journal. The records of the committee, cited in the majority report as consisting of 372 pages contained in three volumes, are not held at the State Archives, and their whereabouts are unknown.

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