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Gregory "Pappy" Boyington (December 4, 1912 – January 11, 1988) was an American combat pilot who was a United States Marine Corps fighter ace during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross .
The name The Journal was adopted on February 17, 1897. Previously the publication had been known for several years as The Judge.William E. Hamilton, another of several early owners, obtained the newspaper about 1900 and held it until 1911, when it was acquired by the Journal Publishing Company, with A. J. Frantz as the president and Douglas F. Attaway Sr. as secretary.
The Times is a Gannett daily newspaper based in Shreveport, Louisiana.Its distribution area includes 12 parishes in Northwest Louisiana and three counties in East Texas.Its coverage focuses on issues affecting the Shreveport-Bossier market, and includes investigative reporting, community news, arts and entertainment, government, education, sports, business, and religion, along with local ...
Joshua Logan (1908–1988), Broadway director of South Pacific and Mister Roberts; born in Texarkana, Texas, but raised in Shreveport. Dottye Dimple Brown Mason (1920 – 2003), was working as a stewardess when she was noticed for her looks and demeanor, which led to a role in the 1947 Jimmie Davis film "Louisiana."
When Syd Nathan died in 1968, his label King Records was acquired by Hal Neely's Starday Company.Neely relaunched the label as Starday-King Records.The label was sold to LIN Broadcasting (sale consummated in 1970), which in turn sold it to Tennessee Recording and Publishing Company, owned by Freddy Bienstock, Hal Neely, Jerry Leiber, and Mike Stoller, who sold it in 1974 to Gusto Records.
Angela Rye (born 1979) – attorney and political commentator, her paternal grandfather was born in Shreveport, Louisiana; A.P. Tureaud (1899–1972) – attorney for the New Orleans chapter of the NAACP [127] Jacques Villere (1761–1830) – 2nd governor of Louisiana; Joseph Marshall Walker (1784–1856) – 13th governor of Louisiana, 1850 ...
Dallas-Shreveport railway in operation. [8] [1] Yellow fever outbreak. [1] [11] 1879 – Shreveport Daily Standard newspaper begins publication. [6] 1880 First Presbyterian Church built. [8] Population: 8,009. 1886 – Grand Opera House built. [8] 1887 – Shreveport Waterworks Pumping Station built. 1890 Shreveport Library Association formed. [12]
Pappy Boyington (1912–1988), American Flying Tiger and fighter ace in World War II; Fred Coe (1914–1979), American television producer and director; Pappy Daily (1902–1987), American country music record producer and entrepreneur; Vermont Garrison (1915–1994), United States Air Force colonel and flying ace in both World War II and the ...