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Show us their hats!

Was scanning in slides from my Dad’s time in Korea (‘52-‘53) and ran across these hats on or near his troop ship returning to the States (in San Francisco I think).

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Tom “Black Jack” Ketchum...Standing on the gallows where he was decapitaed during his hanging. Some say the length of the rope was misjudged while others speculate it was due to all the weight he put on in jail while his appeals were made...
A good friend who was a firefighter/paramedic/EMT in his younger days once told me it was surprisingly easy to separate a human head from it's body.
 

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From the Traces of Texas Historical Group: "Traces of Texas reader Nancy Galindo's great grandfather was a rancher in the south Texas valley for decades. After he passed away Nancy found this photo among his things. It shows a hat check at the Valley State Bank. Nancy isn't sure where that bank is or when this was taken but it sure is a dandy photo."

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Interesting read on Big Jim, Greg.

He was often in the headlines during the 60’s. I was just old enough to remember a bit of the 66 campaign when my old man drug my ass and the rest of the crew to a Gadsden shopping center parking lot for a Lurleen B. Wallace campaign rally. Still one of the more bizarre experiences of my life. The only thing that compared was decades later working klan rallies.
 

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