This week, our Community Breakfast Group will host two speakers at its breakfast meeting on Thursday, November 21. Captain Brian Kirby, Patrol Commander at the Kent County Sheriff’s office, will talk about the Crime Solvers of the Eastern Shore organization which he oversees. Timothy Tilghman will describe the events of November 22, 1963, when his relative Sarah Tilghman Hughes administered the oath of office to LBJ following Kennedy’s assassination.
The CBG meets for breakfast every Thursday at 7:30AM at the Holiday Inn Express in Chestertown.
A group of Kent County business persons and concerned citizens formed the Crime Solvers of the Upper Eastern Shore in 1996 to offer community support to local law enforcement agencies. The group assists local law enforcement agencies in obtaining information about felony crimes, wanted persons and other criminal activity; assists in developing a community offensive against criminal activity; heightens the public awareness of the impact of crime; motivates member of the public to cooperate with law enforcement agencies and provides for awards and rewards for cooperation in solving open crimes.
Sarah Tilghman Hughes was an American lawyer and federal judge who swore in Lyndon Johnson as President of the United States on Air Force One after the Kennedy assassination. She is the only woman in U.S. history to have sworn in a United States President, a task usually executed by the Chief Justice of the United States. After Kennedy’s assassination, LBJ called Irving Goldberg, a Dallas lawyer, to advise him on the laws of succession. and asked “Who can swear me in?” Goldberg replied “Well, we know a federal judge can.” Then the President’s advisors called the nearest Federal judge, Sarah Hughes, at home and said to her “They need you to swear in the Vice President at Love Field. Please get out there as fast as you can.” She replied “is there an oath?” To that, the advisor replied “Yes, but we haven’t found it yet”. She said, “Don’t worry about it; I’ll make one up.”
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