Former Texas governor John Connally appeared in a Washington, D.C. federal court on Aug. 9, 1974 and pled not guilty to the charge of accepting an illegal cash payment to boost the price of milk.
Connally recovered from the near-fatal gunshot wound he suffered in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963 and resumed his duties as chief executive of the Lone Star State. The scuttlebutt in 1966 was that ...