It took a couple of seconds for the president to be killed, 35 years for mountains of conflicting evidence to pile up, and two months for associate editor Michael Hall and assistant editor Pamela Colloff to sift through it all and compile a sort of highlight reel of Kennedy assassination
The magic bullet, the president’s jacket, Oswald’s camera, and other artifacts from the National Archives.
T V Talk|
September 30, 1998
Angie Harmon is disappointed to leave so many unpicked cherry tomatoes in her back yard in California, but she’s had to move to New York to tend to her own Miracle Grow–style success story. That’s where Law and Order films, and this season the 26-year-old Dallas native is the newest
You might not recognize actress Irma P. Hall on the street, but you know her from her films. And thatÕs just how she likes it.
Michael Dell earned nearly $34 million in 1997. Was he worth it? Find out in our roundup of the most overpaid and underpaid CEOs in Texas.
Advice for the new coaches of the Dallas Cowboys and the UT Longhorns.
Which soft drink’s quart-size bottle did Lee trevino use as a golf club?
Hot CDsI was already familiar with James Brown’s Say It Live and Loud (Polygram), which was recorded live at Memorial Auditorium in Dallas on August 26, 1968. I was there, a couple of rows back from the front, and hearing it all over again is one sweet pleasure: the tight,
An anxious, alcoholic, stressed, and depressed Dallasite. A suicidal San Antonian. For each, a seemingly visionary treatment.
Hello, good buy.
As the Worm turns.
The host with the most.
A recipe for success.
Game Boy.
Education|
August 31, 1998
Long before they were chart-topping musicians, Erykah Badu and Roy Hargrove made the grade at an arts magnet school in Dallas.
Behind the Lines|
August 31, 1998
This summer’s hot topic? Weather.
His mentor, Sam Cooke, is long dead, but Dallas’ Johnnie Taylor is alive and well and still living at the top of the charts.
EDS, the company Ross Perot imbued with his own conservative image, is designing Internet sites for magazines like Elle. What a tangled Web we weave.
The myth of the NAFTA superhighway.
Reporter|
November 1, 1995
Texas newspapers go to war.
For reformers of the nations health-care system, ground zero may be Dallas’ Parkland Memorial Hospital, where the crush of uninsured patients with non-urgent complaints is affecting everyone’s care.
Reporter|
September 30, 1995
Jane Roe flips for a preacher.
No longer judged a lightweight.
If the literary novel is dead, then why is Baskerville Publishers in Dallas flourishing?
Drunken boaters have turned a popular lake near Dallas into deadly waters.
Can a suburban Dallas house-wife who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder ever overcome her fears? She doubts it.
Twenty-five years after Norma McCorvey joined the flight to legalize abortion, the battle is still raging—and so is she.
For Dallas writer Carlton Stowers, Sins of the Son is more than just another true crime story. The son is his own.
At the 1995 state high school wrestling championships, pinning wasn’t everything. It was the only thing.
Each week, record promoters flock to see Redbeard, the Dallas radio programmer with an ear for the best new music.
Ron Kirk is ready to be Dallas’ first black mayor. But is Dallas ready for him?
State Secrets|
April 1, 1995
The Humane Society wants to rein in Beltex of Fort Worth, one of the nation’s largest slaughterhouses.
Cyriz is dueling industry-gian Intel in a showdown for the fastest computers in the West.
Jailed right-wing Dallas radio host Tom Donahue protests he’s a political prisoner. The IRS says he’s a crook.
Bugs Henderson doesn’t lhave an “act” — he’s simply one of the best blues guitarists around.
High-tech meets down-home in Texas’ latest ranching trend: a video auction of emus, elk, and other exotic animals.
One night the pastor of Dallas’ all-powerful First Baptist Church mysteriously resigned. To this day, no one is sure why.
The tenth anniversary of the most popular nighttime series begs the question. How long can the Ewing’s doings hold are attention?
People who have watched a certain prime-time soap opera think they know what goes on at the Petroleum Club. They don’t.
Dallas, Scotland: the city that’s everything Big D isn’t.
Where to find a life-size statue of businessmen shaking hands, the best right-wing burgers, and other landmarks of Republican life.
To become more than a perpetual boom town, Dallas needs a foresighted leader and astute politician. Is Starke Taylor the man?
Everybody knows the story about the young Texan who goes into business, works hard, and makes millions. But what happens when his luck runs out?