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151025-9748LeeHarveyOswald
Lee Harvey Oswald claimed he was a "patsy" in the assassination of President John F Kennedy, before he was fatally shot on live TV by Jack Ruby. His original marker was stolen, and this plain one is the replacement.
151025-9749BarbaraLucas
Tad Lucas began her career as a cowgirl in 1922, and won countless trophies for trick riding. Although women's contests were dropped from the major rodeo circuit during WW II, she remained active as performer and official. She is the only person in all three rodeo halls of fame: the National Rodeo HoF (the first woman elected), the National Cowgirl HoF, and the Pro Rodeo HoF. Her will established the Tad Lucas Memorial Award to honor women who excel in any field related to Western heritage.
151025-9754DarrellAbbott
Darrell Abbott was an American guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of two bands, Pantera and Damageplan He is considered to be one of the driving forces behind groove metal. Abbott was shot and killed by a gunman while on stage during a performance in Ohio.
151025-9762AmberHagerman
On January 13, 1996, nine-year-old Amber Rene Hagerman was abducted while riding her bike in Arlington, Texas, and found dead 4 days later. Her parents led a movement to create better missing-child alerts and sex-offender registration. Eventually the AMBER alert system was created. Officially it is a backronym for America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response, but was named for Amber Hagerman,
151025-9812ClydeBarrow
151025-9876CarrieMarcus
Carrie Marcus married Abraham Neiman in 1905, and worked briefly for Coca-Cola. Then with brother Herbert Marcus and sister-in-law Minnie, they founded Neiman Marcus in 1907 in Dallas.
151025-9878CarrieMarcus
Neiman Marcus specialized in high-quality luxurious ready-to-wear garments and was designated a "symbol of elegance" by Holiday magazine. After divorcing in 1928, Carrie was instrumental in the store's fashion shows and in the annual Neiman Marcus Fashion Award beginning in 1938 for outstanding fashion designers. In 1950 her brother Herbert died and she became the chair of Neiman Marcus.
151025-9884GeorgeDealey
George Dealey was a Dallas businessman and long-time publisher of The Dallas Morning News and owner of the A. H. Belo Corporation. Dealey Plaza in Dallas is named in his honor, and was the location of President John Kennedy's assassination.
151025-9890GreerGarson
Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson Fogelson, was an actress as Greer Garson. She was one of America's top-ten box office draws from 1942 to 1946. She received seven oscar nominations, including a record five consecutive nominations, winning the Best Actress award for Mrs. Miniver (1942). Other nominations were for Blossoms in the Dust; Madame Curie, Mrs. Parkington, and The Valley of Decision. Hers was the longest acceptance speech at 5-1/2 minutes, after which the academy imposed a time limit.
151025-9892MickeyMantle
Mickey Mantle played baseball for the New York Yankees as a center fielder and first baseman, from 1951-68. Mantle was one of the best players and sluggers, and is regarded by many to be the greatest switch hitter in baseball history. Mantle was inducted into the National Baseball HoF in 1974 and was elected to the MLB All-Century Team in 1999.
151025-9895MickeyMantle
He hit 536 home runs, batted .300 or more ten times, and is tied as the leader with 13 walk-off home runs. In 1956 Mantle led in batting average, HRs, and RBIs. He was a 16-time All-Star, the AL MVP three times, and a Golden Glove winner once. Mantle appeared in 12 World Series including 7 championships, and holds WS records with 18 HRs, 40 RBIs, 26 extra-base hits, 42 runs, 43 walks, and 123 total bases.
151025-9900MaryKayAsh
Mary Kay Ash founded Mary Kay Cosmetics in 1965. After WWII she divorced her first husband, and went to work for Stanley Home Products. She subsequently was passed over for promotion in favor of a man she had trained. She retired in 1963 and intended to write a book to assist women in business, but the book turned into a business plan for her ideal company. She and new husband, George, planned to start Beauty by Mary Kay, however he died one month before it got going. Mary Kay then started up Mary Kay Cosmetics in Dallas using a loan from her son.
151025-9902HenryWade
Henry Wade was a Texas lawyer who served as District Attorney of Dallas 1951-1987. He participated in two notable US court cases - the prosecution of Jack Ruby for killing Lee Harvey Oswald, and the Supreme Court's decision legalizing abortion in Roe v. Wade. In addition, Wade was District Attorney when Randall Dale Adams, the subject of the documentary film The Thin Blue Line, was convicted in the murder of Robert Wood, a Dallas police officer. He was also the longest-serving district attorney in US history.
151025-9906JDTippit
J. D. Tippit was an 11-year veteran with the Dallas Police Department. On November 22, 1963, Tippit was fatally shot on a Dallas street by Lee Harvey Oswald approximately 45 minutes after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
151025-9908StevieRayVaughan
Stevie Ray Vaughan was a musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was considered one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of blues music, and one of the most important figures in the revival of blues in the 1980s. He gained fame after the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1982, and in 1983 his debut studio album, Texas Flood, charted at number 38. He headlined concert tours with Jeff Beck in 1989 and Joe Cocker in 1990 before his death in a helicopter crash.
151025-9911StevieRayVaughan
The Vaughan Family Estate.
151025-9912WilliamSwofford
William Swofford was a pop singer performing as Oliver. He is known for his 1969 song "Good Morning Starshine" from the musical Hair, and "Jean", the theme from the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. After his music career, he sold real estate and was a manager in a pharmaceutical company.
151025-9918PatSummerall
George Allen "Pat" Summerall was a football player with the Lions and Giants, later a TV sportscaster. In addition to football, he announced major golf and tennis events. In total, he announced 16 Super Bowls, 26 Masters Tournaments, and 21 US Opens. He was named the National Sportscaster of the Year in 1977, inducted into the Sportswriters Hall of Fame, received the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award, and was inducted into the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame.
151026-8004StephenFAustin
Stephen Fuller Austin was an American empresario born in Virginia and raised in southeastern Missouri. Known as the Father of Texas, he led the second colonization of the area by bringing 300 families to the region in 1825.
151026-8005StephenFAustin
In addition, he worked with the Mexican government to support immigration from the US. Numerous places and institutions are named in his honor, including the capital of Texas, Austin.
151026-8006JohnConnally
John Connally was an American politician. He was the 39th Governor of Texas, Secretary of the Navy under President Kennedy, and Secretary of the Treasury under President Nixon. As Treasury Secretary, Connally removed the US dollar from the gold standard in 1971. On November 22, 1963, Connally, at the time the Governor of Texas, was a passenger in the car in which President Kennedy was assassinated, and was seriously wounded during the shooting. In 1973 he switched parties to become a Republican, and ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for President in 1980.
151026-8010AlbertJohnstonMarker
Albert Johnston plaque.
151026-8011AlbertJohnston
Albert Sidney Johnston served as a general in three different armies - the Texian (Republic of Texas) Army, the US Army, and the Confederate States Army. He saw extensive combat during his military career, fighting in the Texas War of Independence, the Mexican-American War, the Utah War, and the American Civil War. He was the highest-ranking officer killed during the entire Civil War.
151026-8012DarrellRoyal
Darrell K Royal was an American football player and coach. He was head coach at Mississippi State, the Univ of Washington, and U of Texas, compiling a record of 184–60–5. His teams won three national championships and 11 Southwest Conference titles. He never had a losing season. He was inducted into the College Football HoF as a coach in 1983. Darrell K Royal – Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas, where the Longhorns play their home games, was renamed in his honor in 1996.
151026-8013WillieWells
Willie Wells, nicknamed "The Devil", was an American baseball player. He was a shortstop and played from 1924-48 for various teams in the Negro leagues and in Latin America. He is a member of the baseball halls of fame in the United States, Cuba and Mexico.
151026-8015WillieWells
He was also the first player to use a batting helmet after being hit and getting a concussion while playing with the Newark Eagles. His first helmet was a construction helmet. Stats include .319 career batting average, .510 slugging percentage, 98 HRs, 644 runs scored, 399 RBIs, and 756 games played.
151026-8019WalterWebb
Walter Prescott Webb was a historian noted for his groundbreaking work on the American West. As president of the Texas State Historical Association, he launched the project that produced the Handbook of Texas. He is also noted for his early criticism of the water usage patterns in the region.
151026-8020FredGipson
Frederick Gipson was an author, best-known for the 1956 novel Old Yeller, which became a popular 1957 Walt Disney film. After working farming and ranching jobs, he enrolled in 1933 at the University of Texas. There he wrote for the Daily Texan and The Ranger, but he left school early to become a newspaper journalist. In the 1940s, Gipson began writing short stories with a western theme, the prototype for his longer fiction that followed. Hound-Dog Man in 1947 became a Doubleday Book-of-the-Month Club selection and sold over 250,000 copies in its first year of publication and later made into a film in 1959.
151026-8021AnnRichards
Dorothy Ann Willis Richards was an American politician and the 45th Governor of Texas. She came to national attention as the state treasurer of Texas, when she delivered the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Richards served as Governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995 and was defeated for re-election in 1994 by George W. Bush.
151026-8023TomLandry
Thomas Wade Landry was an American football player and coach. He was an innovative coach, creating many new formations and methods such as 4-3 defense, and the "flex defense" system made famous by the "Doomsday Defense" squads he created during his 29-year career with the Dallas Cowboys. His 29 consecutive years as the coach of one team are an NFL record along with his 20 consecutive winning seasons. Landry won two Super Bowls, five NFC titles, 13 Divisional titles, and compiled a 270-178-6 record.
151026-8024TomLandry
He was named the NFL Coach of the Year in 1966 and the NFC Coach of the Year in 1975. The Cowboys were on TV more than any other NFL team and spawned the title of "America's Team", a title Landry did not like because he felt it would bring on extra motivation from the rest of the league.
151026-8026SusannaDickinson
Susanna Dickinson and her infant daughter Angelina were among the few American survivors of the 1836 Battle of the Alamo. Her husband, Captain Almaron Dickinson, and 182 other Texian defenders were killed by the Mexican Army. The Mexican general Santa Anna asked her to identify the bodies of the main players. She and another young mother were given $2.00 and a blanket, and allowed to go free. She was illiterate and left no writings, though she gave many oral accounts of the battle. Susanna is actually buried only a few blocks away in a large old cemetery.
151026-8027AllanShivers
Robert Allan Shivers was a Texas politician. In 1934, he was elected to the Texas State Senate. In 1946, he was elected the 33rd Lieutenant Governor of Texas by a landslide vote (91.54%) and was re-elected in 1948. When Governor Beauford Jester died in 1949, Shivers succeeded him, and Shivers won re-election in 1950. In 1952, Shivers proved so popular that he was listed on the gubernatorial ballot as the nominee of both the Democratic and Republican parties. Shivers appeared as himself in the 1955 film Lucy Gallant starring Jane Wyman and Charlton Heston.
151026-8030JamesMichener
James Michener was an American author. The majority of over 40 books were fictional, lengthy family sagas covering many generations in particular geographic locales and incorporating solid history. Novels include Tales of the South Pacific for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and was adapted into a musical and movie, Hawaii (movie), The Drifters, Centennial (a 12-part TV mini series), The Source, The Fires of Spring, Chesapeake, Caribbean, Caravans, Alaska, Texas, and Poland. His non-fiction works include Iberia, about his travels in Spain and Portugal; his memoir titled The World Is My Home, and Sports in America. (Cenotaph).
151026-8032FrancisLubbock
Francis Lubbock was a businessman in South Carolina before moving to Texas in 1836. During the Republic of Texas period, President Sam Houston appointed him as comptroller. In 1857, Lubbock was elected lieut governor of Texas. After the Confederate secession in 1861, Lubbock became governor of Texas.
151026-8034FrancisLubbock
When Lubbock's term ended in 1863, he joined the Confederate Army, and by 1864, Lubbock was aide-de-camp for Jefferson Davis. Following the Confederacy's collapse Lubbock fled from Richmond, Virginia with Davis. They were soon caught and Lubbock was imprisoned for eight months. He continued business interests, and from 1878-1891 he served as Texas State Treasurer.
151027-0217GeneTierney
Gene Tierney was actress, best known for her role of the title character in Laura (1944). She was nominated for a best actress oscar for Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Her first film was in The Return of Frank James (1940), opposite Henry Fonda. Other films include Heaven Can Wait (1943), The Razor's Edge (1946), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), n Whirlpool (1949), The Mating Season (1951), and The Left Hand of God (1955). Her final performance was in the TV miniseries Scruples (1980). She was named after a beloved uncle, who died young.
151027-0218HowardHughes
Howard Robard Hughes Sr. was a businessman and inventor. He was the founder of Hughes Tool Company, and during the Texas Oil Boom he invented the "Sharp–Hughes" rotary tri-cone rock drill bit whicj penetrated medium and hard rock with ten times the speed of any former bit, revolutionizing oil well drilling.
151027-0221HowardHughes
Howard Hughes Jr. was a businessman, investor, record-setting pilot, film director, and philanthropist. He first made a name for himself as a film producer, and then became important in aviation. Later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle. His film work includes The Racket (1928), Hell's Angels (1930), and Scarface (1932). Later he controlled the RKO film studio. Hughes formed the Hughes Aircraft Company and spent the rest of the 1930s and much of the 1940s setting air speed records, building the Hughes H-1 Racer and H-4 Hercules (the Spruce Goose). He acquired and expanded Trans World Airlines and later Air West, renaming it Hughes Airwest. Hughes was included in Flying Magazine's list of the 51 Heroes of Aviation. He donated the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Howard Hughes Corporation.
151027-0222RienziJohnston
Rienzi Johnston was an American newspaperman and Democratic Party politician. He was a drummer in the Civil War, then worked at several newspapers, eventually becoming editor-in-chief of the Houston Post. In 1913 he served a month in the US Senate when Texas Governor Colquitt appointed him to complete the term of the resigned Senator Bailey. His 26 day term is the 2nd shortest term of service in the US Senate.
151027-0223DentonCooley
Denton Cooley was a heart and cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implant of a totally artificial heart. He was also founder and surgeon in-chief of The Texas Heart Institute, chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, consultant in Cardiovascular Surgery at Texas Children's Hospital, and a clinical professor of Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
151027-0226AnsonJones
Anson Jones was a doctor, businessman, member of Congress, Texas Secretary of State, and the fourth and last President of the Republic of Texas. Later, after getting no election votes for Congress and enduring an injured arm, he shot himself. Jones County, and its county seat, Anson, were both named for him.
151027-0228AnsonJonesMarker
151027-0229DavidStuart
151027-0232DavidStuartMarker
151027-0234WilliamClayton
William Clayton was a business leader and government official. After dropping out of school, he became an expert stenographer and was a private secretary to Jerome Hall, a Saint Louis cotton merchant. In 1896, Clayton went to work for the American Cotton Co in New York, and became an assistant general manager in 1904. He then co-founded Anderson, Clayton and Company, a cotton marketing firm which eventually became the world's largest cotton-trading enterprise. President Truman appointed Clayton as the first Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, a post Clayton held for 1946-47. Clayton strongly supported American economic aid to rebuild Europe after World War II and had a major role in shaping the Marshall Plan in 1947. In 1963, when Clayton was in his eighties, President Kennedy asked him to work on the national export expansion program and the limited nuclear test ban treaty.
151030-1567WilliamHobby
William Hobby was the publisher of the Houston Post and Hobby was elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1914, then the 27th Governor of the Texas from 1917-1921. Hobby served as a member on the Board of Directors of Texas Technological College. The airport in Houston is named after him.
151030-1569ThomasLubbock
Thomas Saltus Lubbock was a Texas Ranger and colonel in the Confederate army. His brother, Francis, was Governor of Texas. In 1835, Thomas moved from South Carolina to Louisiana, and when the Texas Revolution started, he marched to Nacogdoches, Texas and participated in the siege of San Antonio de Bexar. Later, he worked on a steamboat on the upper Brazos River, then joined the Texan Santa Fe Expedition as a lieutenant. He and his men were captured in New Mexico and confined in Mexico City. Lubbock escaped by jumping from the balcony and made his way back to Texas. During the Civil war, Lubbock, and a few other Texans became a band of rangers to scout for the Confederate Army. At one point, from the head of a company of Virginia cavalry, they charged a Union camp, captured two of the enemy, wounded a third, and captured ahorse and a Sharps rifle. Only then did they realize that the Virginians had not followed them in their attack.
151030-1821SamHouston
151030-1823SamHoustonMarker
151025-9748LeeHarveyOswald

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151025-9749BarbaraLucas

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151025-9754DarrellAbbott

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151025-9762AmberHagerman

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151025-9812ClydeBarrow

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151025-9876CarrieMarcus

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151025-9878CarrieMarcus

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151025-9884GeorgeDealey

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151025-9890GreerGarson

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151025-9892MickeyMantle

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151025-9895MickeyMantle

151025-9895MickeyMantle  338 views

151025-9900MaryKayAsh

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151025-9902HenryWade

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151025-9906JDTippit

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151025-9908StevieRayVaughan

151025-9908StevieRayVaughan  338 views

151025-9911StevieRayVaughan

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151025-9912WilliamSwofford

151025-9912WilliamSwofford  42 views

151025-9918PatSummerall

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151026-8004StephenFAustin

151026-8004StephenFAustin  42 views

151026-8005StephenFAustin

151026-8005StephenFAustin  42 views

151026-8006JohnConnally

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151026-8010AlbertJohnstonMarker

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151026-8011AlbertJohnston

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151026-8012DarrellRoyal

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151026-8013WillieWells

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151026-8015WillieWells

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151026-8019WalterWebb

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151026-8020FredGipson

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151026-8021AnnRichards

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151026-8023TomLandry

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151026-8024TomLandry

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151026-8026SusannaDickinson

151026-8026SusannaDickinson  32 views

151026-8027AllanShivers

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151026-8030JamesMichener

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151026-8032FrancisLubbock

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151026-8034FrancisLubbock

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151027-0217GeneTierney

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151027-0218HowardHughes

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151027-0221HowardHughes

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151027-0222RienziJohnston

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151027-0223DentonCooley

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151027-0226AnsonJones

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151027-0228AnsonJonesMarker

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151027-0229DavidStuart

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151027-0234WilliamClayton

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151030-1567WilliamHobby

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151030-1569ThomasLubbock

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151030-1821SamHouston

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