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Abilene Reporter-News downtown office. Abilene Reporter-News is a daily newspaper based in Abilene, Texas, United States. The newspaper started publishing as the weekly Abilene Reporter, helmed by Charles Edwin Gilbert, on June 17, 1881, just three months after Abilene was founded. It is hence the oldest continuous business in the city.
Abilene (/ ˈ æ b ɪ l iː n / AB-i-leen) is a city in Taylor and Jones counties, Texas, United States.Its population was 125,182 at the 2020 census. [9] It is the principal city of the Abilene metropolitan statistical area, which had a population of 176,579 as of 2020. [10]
John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. The state funeral was the first in the television age, covered live from start to finish, nonstop for 70 hours. [20] [21] Kennedy's body was brought back to Washington after his assassination.
Harry Glickman, 96, American Hall of Fame sports executive (Portland Trail Blazers) and journalist (The Oregonian). [259] Antonio González Orozco, 87, Mexican muralist, cancer. [260] William Hale, 88, American film and television director (Gunfight in Abilene, Red Alert, Murder in Texas). [261] Murray Hill, 80, New Zealand seed technologist. [262]
Allison is an unincorporated community in Wise County, Texas, United States. [1] The community is located east of Decatur , and west of Denton on U.S. Route 380 . [ 2 ]
The Taylor County Expo Center, formerly Taylor County Coliseum, is a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Abilene, Texas. [1] It was built in 1973. [2]The Expo Center is the former home of the Abilene Aviators, of the Western Professional Hockey League.
In 2012, Abilene Christian received NCAA permission to compete in Division I FCS football and was under consideration for reattachment to the Southland Conference. [32] On August 25, 2012, Abilene Christian's board of trustees accepted Southland's invitation to rejoin the conference effective with the start of the 2013-14 academic year.
The Eisenhower Presidential complex is only one of two whose creation preceded the close of a presidency, and while this is obviously the case with his boyhood home, construction of the library itself began in 1958, and the museum portion before he even took office, coinciding with the then-General's announcement of his presidential candidacy in June 1952.