MEXICO: LYNDA JOHNSON AND GEORGE HAMILTON ON HOLIDAY TOGETHER IN ACAPULCO.

Record ID: 191309

  • Title: MEXICO: LYNDA JOHNSON AND GEORGE HAMILTON ON HOLIDAY TOGETHER IN ACAPULCO.
  • Date: 30th December 1966
  • Summary: COUPLE RELAXING WITH FORMER ACTRESS MERLE OBERON. Initials PBS/V/CCT/MM Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 14th January 1967 12:00
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  • Location: ACAPULCO, MEXICO
  • Country: Mexico
  • Reuters ID: LVA9DKGEYZE0G8GMWLHIJJTTLO90
  • Story Text: PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S DAUGHTER, LYNDA BIRD, AND ACTOR GEORGE HAMILTON WHO ARE HOLIDAYING TOGETHER AT ACAPULCO IN MEXICO HELD A NEWS CONFERENCE ON WEDNESDAY AFTER EARLIER REFUSING TO MEET REPORTERS.

    THE COUPLE SPOKE TO REPORTERS FOR HALF AN HOUR, BUT REFUSED TO DISCUSS ANYTHING ABOUT THEIR MARRIAGE PROSPECTS. MR. HAMILTON TOLD REPORTERS THAT IT WAS A PERSONAL MATTER WHICH HE AND MISS JOHNSON WISHED TO KEEP PERSONAL.

    MISS JOHNSON AND HER ESCORT ARE STAYING AT THE HOME OF FORMER ACTRESS MERLE OBERON. THEIR ARRIVAL IN ACAPULCO ON MONDAY WAS FOLLOWED BY A GREAT DEAL OF PUBLICITY. IT IS REPORTED THAT WEDNESDAY'S MEETING WITH REPORTERS WAS HELD TO COUNTER THE PUBLICITY. MR. HAMILTON SAID HE HOPED HE AND MISS JOHNSON WOULD NOT BE BOTHERED BY REPORTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THEIR VACATION.

    THE MAIN TOPIC OF DISCUSSION AT THE NEWS CONFERENCE WAS ABOUT MR. HAMILTON'S FOOT WHICH HE INJURED RECENTLY WHILE FILMING IN EUROPE. REPORTERS ALSO LEARNED THAT MISS JOHNSON LIKES TO SWIM AND PLANS TO DO A LOT OF SUNBATHING WHILE IN ACAPULCO.
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