Category: Texas
The Menger Hotel
Imagine a well-known general riding his horse into the lobby of a hotel…and it was met with applause. Another military man came here to recruit…
A Bath With Every Room
Today just about every hotel room in America has a private bathroom included. Turn back the clock over a century and shared baths were the…
Streets Wide Enough for Ox Cart U-Turns
Today cities don’t need to be laid out so that ox carts can make U-turns. However, that was the plan behind this Texas town. While…
Inside Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital
Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital is a place Phyllis Hall knew well. As a nurse, she had worked in the room many times. She…
Scenic Route: Inside the ER After the JFK Assassination
Phyllis Hall was a nurse at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, and she was on duty on November 22, 1963, the day JFK was assassinated. Her…
A Dallas Emergency Room Nurse
For the next few features we’ll be visiting with Phyllis Hall, nurse at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital. She was in the emergency room fifty years ago…
Alibates Flint
It’s called Alibates flint, and this spot in the panhandle of Texas is the only place in the world where you can find it. Not…
An Unexpected Surprise
All this week we’ve heard from Pierce Allman, a Dallas broadcaster who witnessed and reported on the JFK assassination. The entire interview can be heard…
First Hand Accounts of the Kennedy Assassination
One of the first broadcasters on the air with news of the shooting of President Kennedy was Pierce Allman. He provided first-hand accounts of the…
A Reporter on the Biggest Story of All
Pierce Allman was a broadcaster and manager at WFFA, a radio and television station in Dallas. In the fall of 1963 his team had been…
