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Estes Named Texas Top News Story of 1962
Texas editors select the Billie Sol Estes scandal as the year's top story, edging political races, the slant oil wells probe, Gov. race outcomes, the Walker case, and the UT Longhorns. Also noted are NASA astronauts, weather, a Texas Legislature special session, and the Herring murder trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ronnie Thompson
Associated Press
Texas
Billie Sol Estes
West
Estes
Houston
Texas Rangers
University of Texas
John Connally
Kennedy
Jack Cox
West Texan
Tyler
Newcom the Estes
Inter
Henry Marshall
Agriculture Department
Bil-Jever
Marshall
Franklin
Tex
Slant of the
Jed
Texas Railroad Commission
Texas House General Investigating Committee
East Texas
James Meredith
University of Mississippi
Edwin Walker
Dallas
Oxford
Miss
Ole Miss
Walker
NASA
Manned Spacecraft Center
Odessa
John Mack Herring
Beaumont