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Article: LBJ, DNA, Rock Hudson And Consuela: a Mystery
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 19, 1994
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D D ear Readers: Last week, we printed Consuelo's letter, claiming
our late prez, Lyndon Baines Johnson, approached her at a teachers
conference in 1970 or '71, and declared she was his illegitimate
daughter, born of a dalliance with a 17-year-old Hispanic girl, his
student when he taught school in Cotulla, Texas, in the late '20s.
Given my clout as a columnist does not extend to demanding DNA
testing of dead presidents, I proposed that the mystery could not be
solved definitively. Instead, I challenged you, the reader, to help
me probe LBJ's very public life, and report back any possible link
between Johnson and the little migrant worker mom. And yes, I
promised that IF Consuelo got the ...