Category: Texas
Witness to An Assassination
In the tragic events that unfolded in Dallas when President Kennedy was assassinated, we may forget that a police officer lost his life in the…
A Personal Connection to a National Tradgedy
In November of 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy. Just two days later, Jack Ruby shot Oswald. Deputy Eugene Boone soon found the assassination…
Searching the 6th Floor of the Texas School Book Depository
In the early afternoon of November 22nd, 1963, Deputy Eugene Boone was searching the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository shortly after President…
In Search of An Assassin
Deputy Eugene Boone was watching President Kennedy’s motorcade pass Main Street on November 22, 1963. But just moments after the president’s car traveled down the…
Yards Away from the Texas School Book Depository
Deputy Eugene Boone could have never imagined the life changing events that would occur in his life and those around him on November 22nd, 1963….
Turning A Tragedy Into A Museum
When we encounter a tragic event, we may want to erase all memories of it. That is what some wanted to do with this building….
The Buckhorn Saloon
When people can’t pay cash for the items they want, they may try to barter. That’s what this saloon did, and what they received became…
Big Tracks
The animal tracks are three foot in width–and they are real–not made by an imaginary bigfoot, but plain to see to everyone that wades into…
Defending the Alamo
It’s one of the most famous buildings at the center of one of the most famous battles in history. A site of a defeat that…
A Tennessee Congressman at the Alamo
James Bowie and William Barrett Travis are two of the famous names to defend the Alamo. Perhaps the most well known of those inside the…
