Sarah Tilghman Hughes was an American lawyer and federal judge who served on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. She is best known as the judge who swore in Lyndon B.
Hughes in 1972
Judge Hughes swears in Lyndon B. Johnson as President of the United States as Jacqueline Kennedy (still wearing her blood-stained pink chanel suit) and Lady Bird Johnson look on. Photo by Cecil W. Stoughton.
Lyndon B. Johnson photo portrait Black'n white
Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Johnson was vice president under John F. Kennedy from 1961 until Kennedy's assassination in 196
Sarah T. Hughes
…lawyer and federal judge who served on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. She is best known as the judge who swore in Lyndon B. Johnson as President of the United States on Air Force One after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963. She is the only…
Johnson at age 7, wearing his trademark cowboy hat, at his childhood farmhouse near Stonewall, Texas, in 1915
Johnson as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy Reserve in March 1942
Johnson's United States Senate portrait in the 1950s