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Brandon "Big Boy" McClelland (June 27, 1984 – September 16, 2008) was an African-American man whose death sparked racial controversy in the city of Paris, Texas.On September 16, 2008, McClelland was killed when he was first hit and run over by a vehicle, then dragged beneath it.
Paris is a city and county seat of Lamar County, Texas, United States. Located in Northeast Texas at the western edge of the Piney Woods , the population of the city was 24,171 in 2020. [ 4 ]
Ray Benson is the former host of the Texas Music Scene TV show. In an interview, Benson said that when he was on the Board of Directors for Austin City Limits, he urged them to start a spin-off show that focused on Texas bands because Austin City Limits had grown beyond its original scope to become an international show.
Howard Wilcox Haggard (July 19, 1891 - April 22, 1959) was an American physician, physiologist and writer. Career. Haggard was born in La Porte, Indiana.
The Lamar County Historical Museum is a local history museum that documents Lamar County, Texas, and its county seat, Paris. It is located on West Kaufman Street in an area of Paris known as Heritage Park, where it is situated immediately south of Heritage Hall. [1] [2] The museum is operated by the Lamar County Historical Society. [3]
In 1916, a devastating fire destroyed most of Paris' downtown area, including the newspaper office and all records. Sayers continued as publisher until early April 1920, when he sold the paper the North Texas Publishing Company, whose principal shareholders were Paris business people – Harry Thomas Warner (1870–1925), former managing editor ...
Paris, Texas is a 1984 neo-Western drama road film directed by Wim Wenders, co-written by Sam Shepard and L. M. Kit Carson, and produced by Don Guest.It stars Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément, and Hunter Carson.
In "Mama Tried", Haggard focuses on the pain and suffering he caused his own mother by being incarcerated in 1957 in San Quentin. [3] Haggard ultimately served three years on a robbery conviction. However, the song is not literally autobiographical, as many country music historians point out.