Texas Defense

By 1964 things were bad enough that a mix of parents and former Gatesville employees wrote a letter to President Lyndon Baines Johnson and the governor of Texas. They described the kind of abuse we've discussed already in this episode at length, compared the training school to quote a concentration camp. So this leads to the biggest flurry of investigations yet. The FBI and the Texas Rangers both launch investigations into these facilities Gatesville in particular but also the juvenile crimp justice system and like the juvenile incarceration system in Texas. And also both houses of the Texas legislature launch investigation.